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In this issue: SA election: the issues that matter... 'Sanctity of life' motion defeated in Senate... Highlights from our religious freedom submission... Cultural Leadership Symposium UK - preparing for the next horizon... Deeper wisdom shapes generations... Transgender swim night 'divisive'... Revitalised in Witness - lessons from the '59 Billy Graham Crusade.

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 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.

In this issue: Poll position? Which way forward for TAS?... 'Sanctity of life' motion defeated in Senate... Highlights from our religious freedom submission... Cultural Leadership Symposium UK - preparing for the next horizon... Deeper wisdom shapes generations... Transgender swim night 'divisive'... Revitalised in Witness - lessons from the '59 Billy Graham Crusade.

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.

In this issue: FamilyVoice testifies at end of life choices hearing... Kids' rights cannot be traded away... 'Sanctity of life' motion defeated in Senate... Highlights from our religious freedom submission... Cultural Leadership Symposium UK - preparing for the next horizon... Deeper wisdom shapes generations... Transgender swim night 'divisive'... Revitalised in Witness - lessons from the '59 Billy Graham Crusade.

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. 

'Yes' voters celebrate with explicit mural... NSW victory against kill bill... New euthanasia push in ACT, QLD, TAS... Schools religious freedoms under threat... Conscientious freedom isn't discrimination... We are stirred, but not shaken!... 'For we are Dumb and Policed'... Freedoms report due in March.

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.

New euthanasia push in QLD, ACT, TAS... Half of QLD voters want abortion illegal: poll... Toowoomba spearheads 'porn free city'... QLD election survey surprise... Queensland Labor 'Safe Schools' agenda appears 'fluid'... Conscientious freedom isn't discrimination... We are stirred, but not shaken!... 'For we are Dumb and Policed'... Freedoms report due in March.

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.