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Published: 18 February 2020

Israel Folau has made a remarkable return to rugby league, helping the Catalans Dragons defeat the Castleford Tigers.

The Catalans Dragons are based in France and play in the Super League, which is the highest level professional rugby league competition in the northern part of the world.

Rugby Australia famously sacked Israel in March 2019 after LGBT activists demanded he be punished for sharing his Christian-based view on human sexuality.

As part of a huge outpouring of support for Folau, people who love freedom of speech donated two million dollars to his legal fund.

Folau consequently sued Rugby Australia and eventually reached a confidential settlement.

Despite that result, LGBT activists continue to hound Folau. They want him sacked as a player with the Catalans Dragons - depriving him of the ability to earn a living with his God-given talent.

One rival club sought to further marginalise Folau, by announcing that their game against his team would be named “Pride Day”.

Those who oppose Folau playing rugby claim to support “inclusion”, oblivious to the fact that excluding someone for their religious beliefs is hardly “inclusive”.

Published: 18 February 2020

House of Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg has demanded venues stop discriminating against the forthcoming Franklin Graham tour of the UK.

The outspoken conservative MP has warned service providers  “not to discriminate unlawfully on grounds of religion and belief” in denying Franklin Graham venue hire.

Franklin Graham is due to tour eight cities in the UK this year but LGBT activists are trying to shut down the tour.

Numerous venues have already cancelled on Graham.

“No-platforming is a particularly disagreeable modern trend,” said Rees-Mogg.

“It is a sad truth that many people who tout themselves as being liberal are liberal only about what they like and are very intolerant of the views with which they disagree,” he said.

The comments by Jacob Rees-Mogg responded  to a question from MP Fiona Bruce who referred to the Prime Minister’s Christmas message statement that “We stand with Christians everywhere, in solidarity, and will defend your right to practise your faith.”

“Plainly, that was meant to include the UK, so may we have a statement on whether we can really call ourselves a tolerant, inclusive and diverse society that respects freedom of speech, whatever one’s religion or beliefs, if we deny the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association a platform in this country?,” Bruce asked.

Franklin Graham has responded in a Facebook post to the campaign against him speaking, saying that opposition to the Gospel shouldn’t really surprise.

“Jesus warned that it would come,” said Graham.

“As you may know, my eight-city evangelistic tour across the UK has been met with resistance by LGBTQ activists who inaccurately claim that I am homophobic, Islamophobic, and say that I speak hate.

“Anyone who knows me or has heard me speak knows that this really isn’t true—but, I DO preach the TRUTH of the Gospel. Could it be, rather, that these folks are truthophobic or free-speech-ophobic?,” he asked.

Published: 18 February 2020

Abortion would be treated as homicide under legislation being pushed in the US state of Oklahoma.

Senator Joseph Silk, author of Senate Bill 13, told news station Coco 5 that his Senate Bill 13 is an equal protection bill.

“[It] finds life as being at the moment of conception and offers life equal protection under the law and therefore classifies any intentional killing of unborn children as homicide,” said Republican Senator Silk.

“A couple of deals, I mean, people ask for the rape and incest exception.  There is not that because we wanted it to be an equal bill. 

“Rape and incest are horrible things but you don’t murder a child because of the crimes of the father and mother. The medical exception there, it’s not specifically outlined, but in the bill, the language of the bill it does not prevent a doctor from performing basic medical triage.  It just says a physician needs to exhaust all his resources to treat both lives equally. If he is not able to save both mom and mother [sic] obviously he will not be charged with murder whatsoever.”

A fellow Oklahoma Senate Republican, Greg Treat said he did not support the legislation:

“I agree with abolishing abortion.  If I thought that Senate Bill 13 would save a single human life, I would be on board fully.  I am still of the mind that it is fatally flawed,” said Senator Treat.

But Senator Silk said that he did not agree with Senator Treat’s position.

“We’ve had discussions, where he thinks it’s fatally flawed is, Senator Treat does not believe the state of Oklahoma has the authority to essentially enact this legislation because of the Roe v Wade opinion, which we just disagree on that,” said Senator Silk.

“And I have my basing off of slavery.  At one point the Supreme Court said salves were private property and had no rights and we have rectified that.

“…so the federal government is limited and the Supreme Court offers opinions and they are not all powerful.  And the state of Oklahoma does have the right to do it and we just have different opinions on that,” he added.

Asked if the idea is to get the matter before the Supreme Court [to overturn Roe v Wade], Silk responded:

“You know, that’s one idea. And so there’s some language in the bill.  I’m of the opinion that the state needs to just enact the legislation and the government needs to uphold the constitution and basically stop killing unborn children.  However, there is a thought that if you were to take this legislation and send it all the way up to the Supreme Court, it would overturn Roe v Wade. So there’s two different ways of thinking.  But that is, a lot of supporters actually want to see Senate Bill 13 be the bill that overturns Roe v Wade.”

Senator Silk said that he is not a fan of an alternative legislative proposal, House Bill 1182.

“I view unborn children as humans just like you and I are.  House Bill 1182, you know, at the most it takes doctor’s licenses away for a year and there’s a $500 fine for murdering a human child.” 

Senator Silk was asked about a viewer’s question which read:

Do you identify as a female? Are you able to carry a nine-month pregnancy? No. Ok.  Then how about you go author a bill that can pertain to you and stop playing God.

But Senator Silk shut down the logical fallacy of the argument:

 “I’m a legislator, I’m not a child.  But we write laws and pass laws and vote on laws pertaining to children.  And that’s exactly what this bill is.  We’re talking about a living human being and wanting to protect it from murder, and so whether you’re a male or female it does not matter whatsoever.  You are trying to protect innocent children.

Senator Sillk was also asked about the issue and rape, how it was traumatic, and had it put to him that he was mixing the issue of church and state.

But Senator Silk calmly responded that it comes down to people having to decide whether an unborn child is a living human being that deserves protection or is it not.

“If you believe a child needs to be murdered when it is conceived in rape, you will have to adjust your standards a lot on who deserves protection and what innocent children are allowed to be murdered and which ones aren’t.  I am of the opinion, again those are horrible atrocities when they happen, however it is still a human life and it still deserves protection,” he said.

Published: 18 February 2020

In a remarkably pro-family announcement, Russian President Putin has expressed support for male-female marriage and the role of mother and father to raise the next generation.

According to a recent Reuters report, President Vladimir Putin supports a proposed reform of the Russian constitution that would define marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

Putin also said he will not allow the traditional role of mother and father to be subverted by the registration of ‘parent number 1’ and ‘parent number 2’ as occurs in some nations that have legalised same-sex weddings.

“As far as ‘parent number 1’ and ‘parent number 2’ goes, I’ve already spoken publicly about this and I’ll repeat it again: as long as I’m president this will not happen. There will be dad and mum,” said Mr Putin.

The Russian President’s position was welcomed by FamilyVoice Australia spokesman David d’Lima.

“Putin correctly respects the fact that children need to be raised by their biological parents, who ideally are married,” said David d’Lima.

“He is also right to heed the teaching given by the Russian Orthodox Church as a positive influence on the nation, despite the foolish endorsement of same-sex relationships by many Western countries.

“Despite 70 years of anti-faith and anti-family brutality under hard-line communism, the Russian Orthodox Church has persevered and influenced the nation, to the point that the church may rejoice to see marriage and family defended.”

David d’Lima said the Russian president is right to recognise the paramount role of married mother and father to nurture the next generation.

 “The role of the historic faith to shape nations and protect the natural family cannot be over-emphasised,” David d’Lima said.

“But the churches in Western nations must recognise that the legalisation of same-sex weddings has occurred under our watch - to our great shame.

“We have much work to rebuild the influence of the Word of God as a central pillar and the Christian church as a reforming agency within Western civilisation.”

Marriage has been redefined in 28 nations, most of which are Western countries who were founded on Christian assumptions about law and society. They include Australia, Canada, the UK, New Zealand, France and the Scandinavian nations.