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Saltshakers have talked at the Marysville Mt Cathedral Baptist Church several times and know Killian and his wife Robyn well. An Age article picks up on this here - Memorial services hear stirring messages of faith, hope and charity.
The Age reports, "Mr Fitzpatrick had a message for the congregation, many of whom, like him, survived the Marysville firestorm but lost their homes and all their possessions. "Who cares? We have each other. That's all that matters," he said. "The people who really need support are those who have lost members of their family."" It is good to have a Christian perspective in the newspaper. We do need to support those who have lost others. And we do not need to care about our things, which have been so aptly shown to have been here today and gone tomorrow. |
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Thursday, 05 February 2009
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How much freedom of speech should we have? Recently Geert Wilders, a member of the Netherlands parliament, has been taken to court on charges of “inciting hatred and discrimination” to Muslims. Bruce Thornton of Front Page Magazine writes, “His crime? Last year Wilders released online a 17-minute film called Fitna, which juxtaposed images of Islamic terrorism, and sermons advocating terrorism, with the verses from the Koran that sanction violence against unbelievers. Wilders has also been a vocal critic of the Islamization of Dutch society. In other words, Wilders is being prosecuted for telling the truth about Islam in its own words, and for defending his own culture against its enemies.” |
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When does criticsm become hate speech? Geert Wilders is now being taken to court for talking about the atrocities of Islam in his short film 'Fitna'. Silencing Islam's Critics: A Dutch court imports Saudi blasphemy norms to Europe. Opinion, Wall Street Journal, 21 January 2009 The latest twist in the clash between Western values and the Muslim world took place yesterday in the Netherlands, where a court ordered the prosecution of lawmaker and provocateur Geert Wilders for inciting violence. The Dutch MP and leader of the Freedom Party, which opposes Muslim immigration into Holland, will stand trial soon for his harsh criticism of Islam. Mr. Wilders, who made world news last year with the release of a short anti-Islam film called "Fitna," certainly intends to provoke. In his 15-minute video, he juxtaposes verses from the Koran that call for jihad with clips of Islamic hate preachers and terror attacks. He has compared the Koran to Hitler's "Mein Kampf" and urged Muslims to tear out "hate-filled" verses from their scripture. Read full article at Wall Street Journal |
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Saturday, 31 January 2009
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Their own grandchildren denied - too old - and adopted to homosexuals! This is where a little acceptance and 'tolerance' becomes too much. To place children with two gay men when an adoptive mother and father are available, just to uphold a brutal dogma, is a sickening assault on family life Melanie Phillips, 29th January 2009 When homosexuality was legalised back in 1967 did anyone dream that some four decades on a British grandmother and grandfather wanting to adopt their own grandchildren would be refused permission and the children adopted instead by two gay men? Read full article at Mail Online.co.uk |
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Do we sometimes wonder why more sports stars don't drop out amidst alcohol related problems? It is interesting that sporting bodies codes know they should be sensible in their drinking, and yet don't have any idea how to seriously promote that. Nor do they want to. Booze code a drop in the bucket Herald Sun, Susie O'Brien, January 20, 2009 WHAT is the point of sporting bodies having a code of conduct promoting sensible drinking when their athletes run around sponsored by VB and Bundy rum? |
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Screening unborn babies for autism is now close. The professor asks the question: is it ethical? Marcel Berlin asks these questions: What would be the autistic child's quality of life; the parents potential suffering; and least of all the view of society. Are these questions even valid? Are they the only questions? Debate this on the forum (click here) . The potential for genius should not stop autism screening The Age, Marcel Berlin, 19 January 2009 With more genetic tests being developed, where do we draw the line? THE prospect of a screening test on a pregnant woman predicting her child's autism is not far away, and Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, leader of the Cambridge University research team that developed the test, has called for an ethical debate on its desirability. My first reaction was puzzlement. Full article online at the age |
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