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More news today of a Christian camp being sued for discrimination when they refused to allow individuals to come because of their sexual orientation. While the Equal Opportunity Act does allow religous groups to discriminate Way Out Organisation is arguing that this does not apply in a religious organisation's role as a commercial entity. The Age has more.

Christian Brethren sued for barring camp to gay group
The Age, Thursday July 8th

"The youth support group said it wanted to help gay youth tackle homophobia.

The way the Christian Brethren understood it, allowing the promotion of a homosexual lifestyle at a campsite they owned was against the word of God.

There has been another stark reminder recently on the employment of sex to sell products. Russian Airline Services Avianova have utilised bikini-clad babes in a raunchy advertisement that has come under significant controversy. This, unfortunately, is merely another example of our modern society destitude of standards.

Bill Muehlenberg writes a compelling article about the dangers of post-modernism especially within the University sphere. He criticises and challenges the idea of each persons reality being "true" as opposed to the absolute truth of the Bible.

When Truth Disappears

Article by Bill Muehlenberg

Ideas have consequences and bad ideas have bad consequences. Unfortunately in the secular West, the rejection of God – which was meant to bring freedom – has simply resulted in bondage: bondage to bad ideas, bad thinking and bad worldviews.

Article by Cameron Spink

I seem to recall Julia Gillard promising us that “there's more chance of me becoming the full-forward for the Dogs than there is any chance of a change in the Labor party”. Now she is the Prime Minister and it still remains impossible for her to become the Bulldog’s full-forward (what with all AFL stars being male). However, she has now become the first female Prime Minister so in that regard she has certainly broken through the perceived sexism of federal parliament perhaps it is not such a big stretch that she would oust Barry Hall and spearhead the Dogs.

In all seriousness this is bad news from the Australian public. Aside from her deliberate manipulation of the Labor party whilst remaining in the background Gillard is also an outspoken Fabian Socialist and does not prescribe to Christian ethics. For some Christians this seems best, that Australia be run by secularists rather than Christians. However, this logic is lost on me. I’d prefer to see someone who will represent this nation who adheres to our Creator.

Article by Cameron Spink

Sport does strange things to men. The World Cup has only been on for a fortnight but all of a sudden one of my friends decided he’d put some money on one of the games. The Brazil v Korea DPR game to be exact. And the amount he put on Brazil to win: $800. It took sixty-eight minutes of stressing but finally Brazil were on the board and my friend won the bet. He made $80 off the bet.

This is how most gambling addictions start, with a win. Perhaps were an amateur gambler to lose it would dissuade them from continuing. Anyway, my friend placed another bet on a “sure thing”. And he won $120. So he continued and placed $300 on Germany to beat Serbia. It made sense didn’t it? Germany had beaten Australia 4-0, Serbia had only managed to draw with Ghana. The thing about soccer is it is a very volatile sport. With such low scores all it takes is one incident to change a match. The incident in this game was the German’s losing their key striker to a red card. In AFL if you lose a player for the match you’ll cope and do more interchange rotations. In soccer losing a player makes a win very unlikely.

A Newscore article was released today stating a psychologist's opinion that children shouldn't be allowed to use a computer until age 9. His reasons were because it affected attention spans and was harmful to their under-developed brains.

Psychologist says children should be banned from computers until the age of nine
NewsCore, June 14, 2010

"A PROMINENT psychologist has urged schools to ban children under the age of nine from using computers because the technology is damaging their brains.