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Do you want to loose your religious Freedoms ? The LGBTQI folk are not asking but are demanding all religious restrictions be removed so they can do whatever they want. They will talk in terms of hate, discrimination, intolerance, unfairness. But once religious freedoms are gone they will not come back. the UK and USA are prime examples where promises were made then watered down fast.  This is a submission to the Ruddock enquiry. Make up your own and submit it here Freedom of religion is more than freedom to worship, it is freedom to live out one’s Biblical faith in public. This freedom must be protected in all government contracts, universities, and various workplaces. Employment associations must not have the right to refuse any application by Christians who hold the view of Biblical marriage . Christian Parents must have the right to be notified of and then withdraw their children from public school classes teaching any form ...

A retired pastor has been barred as a marriage celebrant because he won't marry same-sex couples. Auckland pastor Barrie Baker, 65, is one of 22 people barred from becoming marriage celebrants in the past 15 months because they refuse to do same-sex marriages . Family First director Bob McCoskrie says the rejections breach their rights under the Bill of Rights Act to "freedom of thought, conscience, religion, and belief". "It's coercing and it's bullying," he said. But the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Jeff Montgomery , said independent marriage celebrants were bound by the Human Rights Act not to discriminate against people on the basis of their sexual orientation. Labour MP Louisa Wall 's marriage equality bill, which legalised same-sex marriages in 2013, exempted celebrants nominated by a church or other approved organisation whose "religious beliefs or philosophical or humanitarian convictions" do not allow sa...

The association that represents all Catholic school trustees in Alberta has fired back against the New Democrat government’s new guidelines for forming mandatory transgender policies in all schools, including Catholic ones, stating that it’s the bishops, not the government, that provides “moral and theological leadership” to Catholic schools . In a statement issued earlier this week that comes as a blow to NDP Education Minister David Eggen , the Alberta Catholic School Trustees’ Association (ACSTA) stated that it “reaffirms the responsibility and the role of the Alberta Catholic Bishops to provide moral and theological leadership to the Catholic community including Catholic education communities .” It added that while it “reaffirms its commitment to work with Alberta Education” it at the same time “regrets Alberta Education's lack of consultation during the development of the Guidelines for Best Practices resource material.” Last week the NDP issued “best practices” guidel...

A Massachusetts judge sided with a practicing homosexual who sued a Catholic school for acting to uphold its Catholic identity. In a first of its kind case, Norfolk Superior Court Judge Douglas Wilkins ruled that Fontbonne Academy discriminated against   Matthew Barrett   for his sexual orientation and gender in violation of State law when it withdrew a job offer in 2013. Barrett had been offered the position of food services director at the all-girls Catholic prep school in Milton, MA , but the offer was later rescinded after Barrett had listed another man as his “husband” and emergency contact on his employee new hire form. Wilkins said in his December 16 ruling Barrett's responsibilities directing food service for the school did not include presenting the teachings of the Catholic Church ,   according   to the Star Tribune . “As an educational institution, Fontbonne retains control over its mission and message,” Wilkins wrote. “It is not forced to a...

As President of the Australian Marriage Forum, an association of volunteers dedicated to preserving the timeless truth of marriage as "the union of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life", I write to alert you to a valuable resource: the full-page ad we placed in The Australian on Monday 10 August, funded fully by online donations from hundreds of concerned Australians, giving our considered case against any change to the meaning of Marriage. The online link is: http://australianmarriage.org/its-not-marriage/ A3 printed copies were delivered to Coalition MPs and Senators that day, and we would like to make copies available to any pastors who could use them – whether on church notice boards (as some pastors have already requested) or to enhance discussion of this vital matter in youth groups or sachool classrooms. As you will see from the ad, we open by acknowledging that "all relationships matter. But not al...