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THE CASE AGAINST SAME-SEX 'MARRIAGE'. By Bill Muehlenberg, CultureWatch. www.billmuehlenberg.com         One of the most disconcerting items on the homosexual agenda is the demand for marriage rights for same-sex relationships. But the Orwellian attempt to equate same-sex relationships with traditional marriage is doomed from the outset. Homosexual marriage is simply an oxymoron. There are many reasons why this move to destroy marriage must be resisted. Here are some of them.

TRUTH AND FREEDOM: THE IMPORTANCE OF ROBUST DEBATE. By Dr David Phillips, BSc, PhD, ThA, National President, FamilyVoice Australia.         I will never forget the day when I was called to give evidence in a defamation case being heard in the Adelaide Supreme Court. An offical ushered me into the witness box, asked me to place my right hand on a Bible, and say "I swear by Almighty God that the evidence I shall give shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing by the truth."     Most of us have watched television dramas where witnesses have been sworn in court using similar words. This requirement to tell the truth in court procceedings is part of our culture, not just here in Australia but in Britain, America and throughout the English speaking world.

TECHNOLOGY: WHY DID CHRISTIANS DEVELOP IT? Condensed from chapter 7 of Vishal Mangalwadi's book: The Book That Made Your World, Thomas Nelson, 2011.         When I visited Jinja, Uganda in 2000, I stayed on the shores of Lake Victoria - the world's second largest freshwater lake. Observing hundreds of women and children hauling water on their heads, I was struck by a puzzling question: Why were women staying near an abundant source of water and electrity, carrying water on their heads, morning and evening, 365 days a year?     Were they unaware of pumping technology? That couldn't be the case, becuase across the fields from my residence was an industrial complex that pumped water 2,000 homes directly from Lake Victoria.

ARE HOMOSEXUALS BORN THAT WAY? By Dr David Phillips, BSc, PhD, ThA, National President, FamilyVoice Australia.         When Lady Gaga released the song Born This Way in February 2011, the response was phenomenal. The song reached number one in 19 countries, including Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland and Sweden. In the United States, it topped the billboard Hot 100 chart for six weeks. And it became the fastest-selling song in iTunes history, selling one million copies in five days. Why?     After repeating the chorus line "I was born this way" umpteen times, Lady Gaga goes on to equate homosexuality with race...

THE TEN BLESSINGS. By Vishal Mangalwadi. Edited extract from Truth and Transformation.         These days, the Ten Commandments God gave Moses on Mount Sinai are sometimes seen as burdensome and irrelevant. Not so, says Indian Christian scholar Vishal Mangalwadi: they are Ten Blessings. We should not lightly discard them.     In 1977 a group of "low caste", "untouchable" young people asked me for help. A minor flood in their village had washed away their homes and cattle. My friends showed me the pride of their village - a temple in the middle of the river, built 1000 years ago. I said, "Our forefathers had the ability to build this temple in the middle of a river. It has withstood hundreds of floods. Why didn't they use that ability to build houses on the banks of the river that could withstand floods?

HOMOSEXUALITY: THE HEALTH RISKS. WARNING: This article contains some explicit descriptions. By Roslyn Phillips, B Sc, DipEd, National Research Officer, FamilyVoice Australia.         In 1994, a NSW regional newspaper published a letter to the editor from a doctor who outlined medical problems disproportionately linked with male homosexual activity. They included HIV/AIDS and anal cancer.     Some homosexual activists then lodged a complaint of homosexual vilification with the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board. The Board accepted the complaint. It demanded that the doctor and the newspaper editor justify the publication of the letter.

PROSTITUTION: WHICH LAWS PROTECT WOMEN? By Roslyn Phillips, B Sc, DipEd, National Research Officer, FamilyVoice Australia.         "Funerals are what I hate most," says Linda Watson.     Linda, a former prostitute and madam, now runs Linda's House of Hope - a rescue ministry for those trapped in the sex trade as she once was. Linda has saved hundreds of women since her House of Hope opened in Perth in August 1999. But she remains deeply troubled by deaths - by drug overdose, murder or suicide - of women who have called for help too late.

EIGHT MODERN MYTHS ABOUT MARRIAGE. By Kevin Andrews. Edited extract from Maybe 'I do': Modern Marriage & The Pursuit of Happiness. ConnorCourt Publishing, 2012.         A few years ago, a high profile female television news anchor wrote a stinging attack on mentors from her mother's eneration. Approaching 40, "childless and angry", Virginia Haussegger criticised those who suggested her generation could ahve it all. 

PORNOGRAPHY AND MARRIAGE: HEALING THE HURT. By Andrew and Kathryn.         Ten years into her marriage with Andrew, Kathryn found out about her husband's pornography addiction. It was devastating - for both of them.     Andrew and Kathryn shared with VoxPoint their sturggle and hourney out of porn.

THE NEW DRUGS WAR. By Roslyn Phillips, BSc, DipEd. National Research Officer, FamilyVoice Australia.         Henry Kwan, 17, was a model student and dux of his class when he took a drug that led to a psychotic breakdown and caused him to jump to his death off a balcony at his family's suburban Sydney home on 5 June 2013.    The synthetic drug he took was perfectly legal. Drugs just like it - chemical variations of LSD, cannabis, cocaine and amphetamines, marketed with names such as Kronic, Bliss, TranQuality and Northern Lights - have been readily available from the internet, sex shops, tobacconists and even sports stores.

DOES THE BIBLE REALLY SAY HOMOSEXUALITY IS OK? By Dr Barry Chant, DipEd, BA (Hons), BD, DMin, PhD.         On 8 March 2012, an earnest 22-year-old American named Matthew Vines delivered an address entitled The Bible and Homosexuality.     He claimed his research into the biblical texts on homosexuality had led him to conclude that the Bible does not condemn loving homosexual relationships.

THE SIXTIES 'LIBERATION': WHAT HAPPENED? Based on False Promises: Sixties Philosophy Against the Church, Windrush Press, 2012. By Dr Lucy Sullivan, BA (Hons) BPsych (Hons) PhD. Edited by Jasmine Yow and Ros Phillips.         Forty years after he brought the rock musical Hair to Australia in the the late sixties, entrepreneur Harry M Miller was interviewed about the show - highly controversial at the time for its nude scene, profanity, illegal drug use and treatment of sexuality.     Mr Miller told Channel 7's Today Tonight in 2009 that fears expressed by "scaremongers" had been unfolded. "People thought there would be incest in the home and seduction in the streets," he said. "None of it ever happened."