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Religion & Ethics Australia Digest [22]

By and others ⋅ February 4, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Religion & Ethics Australia DigestA weekly public affairs review from the Centre for Christian Ethics, Morling CollegeNo. 022, 28 Jan – 3 Feb 2005  ² edited by Rod BensonNews reportsAbortionOn 31 January, a “powerful alliance” of religious leaders from major Christian denominations and from several other religions met to discuss abortion, and resolved to call […]

Religious Vilification in Australia: three commentaries

By and others ⋅ February 4, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

David Palmer, Presbyterian church: A very good shorter critique of the VCAT decision on the two pastors in Victoria. http://www.acl.org.au/pdfs/load_pdf_public.pdf?pdf_id=225 Mark Durie, Anglican church: An excellent longer analysis of the decision. http://www.acl.org.au/pdfs/load_pdf_public.pdf?pdf_id=227 Bill Muehlenberg, Baptist church: A general critique of vilification legislation. http://www.acl.org.au/pdfs/load_pdf_public.pdf?pdf_id=226

Abortion

By and others ⋅ February 4, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

(February 2, 2005) Many of you that have followed the media closely over the last year or so would be aware of the debate ignited by the Federal Health Minister, Tony Abbott, in his address to the Adelaide University Democratic Club on “The Ethical Responsibilities of a Christian Politician”. Most of the message conveyed by […]

Increased Sex After Abstinence Program

By and others ⋅ February 3, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Abstinence Programs http://tinyurl.com/4ezhx Do these programs work? From the above: ———————————————– Texas Teens Increased Sex After Abstinence Program HOUSTON (Reuters) – Abstinence-only sex education programs, a major plank in President Bush (news – web sites)’s education plan, have had no impact on teenagers’ behavior in his home state of Texas, according to a new study. […]

Religious Vilification findings

By and others ⋅ February 3, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

The attached file can be read online at austlii: http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/disp.pl/au/cases/vic/VCAT/2004/2510.html?query=%22religious+vilification%22 ” Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal Islamic Council of Victoria v Catch the Fire Ministries Inc (Final) [2004] VCAT 2510 (22 December 2004) Last Updated: 29 December 2004 VICTORIAN CIVIL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL HUMAN RIGHTS DIVISION ANTI DISCRIMINATION LIST VCAT REFERENCE NO. A392/2002 CATCHWORDS COMPLAINANT: […]

Orthodox churches and Islam

By and others ⋅ February 3, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

From an Orthodox priest-friend (February 2005): Welcome to the world the Coptic Orthodox and many other orthodox (Syrian for example) who have learned to live and survive in for 13 centuries. Wait till the Jitza (Jizyah)tax is enforced. The extra tax one pays to Islamic rulers for being -allowed- to remain Christian in Islamic majority […]

There Can Be No End to Jihad

By and others ⋅ February 3, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Islamist Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad, in an exclusive interview, discusses the rationale for 9/11, the Christians he most respects, and the Jesus he defends. Interview by Anthony McRoy | posted 02/01/2005 9:00 a.m. Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad is the leader of one of the most controversial Islamist groups in the U.K., Al Muhajiroun (which means […]

Religious Vilification: a view from Britain and Australia

By and others ⋅ February 2, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

BARNABAS FUND BRIEFS MPS ON RELIGIOUS HATE LAW: WARNS OF THREAT TO FREE SPEECH? Press Release – 1 February 2005 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Barnabas Fund has today issued a briefing pack for all MPs warning of the dangers to free speech posed by proposed new laws banning incitement to religious hatred. MPs are due to […]

Alcohol

By and others ⋅ February 2, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Posted by Mark Tindall: (from Rabbi Rudolph Brasch, Thank God I’m an Atheist, Collins, Australia, 1987, p. 60) WINE AND RELIGION The drinking of wine was an essential part of earliest religious meals. With wine man hallowed the sacred days and found communion with the divine. Jews still thus sanctify every Sabbath and holy day. […]

Plunder down under: how agriculture is drinking Australia dry

By and others ⋅ February 2, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Plunder down under David Fickling on how agriculture is drinking Australia dry Monday November 8, 2004 Australia may be dry but it is not parched. The perception of the country as a “wide, brown land” is widespread but it does not bear much relation to the reality of living there. Certainly, Australia is the driest […]

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