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Urgent - Your online vote is needed - Herald Sun: 60% have voted YES to gay marriage(25.8.11)

To vote, click on the "Do you support gay marriage?" link below.  Takes less than 30 seconds.

This is urgent friends - the Greens have mustered a counter to the current gay marriage issue - see the  Salt Shakers article below.

We need to act

 

 PLEASE READ THIS AND TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION

MPs report on marriage 'opinions' + web vote

The media are reporting on the Good News and bad news from yesterday's MPs 'reporting' on constituents opinions re possible changes to the 'Marriage Act. in Federal Parliament.

The Herald Suns heading says "Greens push for same-sex unions fails to win support" (live link)

"Most MPs who took part in the debate said their electorate did not support gay marriage, while just six said that their electorate supported change."

But they decided to have a vote on it so PLEASE VOTE NO

VOTE - Herald Sun  "Do you support gay marriage? (live link)

We are losing badly - I suspect this vote has been hijacked - but we must try to turn it around.

The ABC reports "Of the 30 MPs who took part in the debate, only five said that they would like same sex couples to be allowed to marry, and one other reported community support for a change to the Marriage Act.
But there was significant support for relationships to be legally recognised in some way, perhaps through a system of civil unions."

Action We must repeatedly show MPs and Senators the evidence - COMPROMISE FAILS.

As we reported yesterday - ANY GROUND GIVEN (legal recognition) will reinforce the perception that same-sex relationships are 'natural' and 'normal' AND WILL advance their cause towards marriage.

NO COUNTRY that has given same-sex 'marriage' has ever gone straight to first base - they have 'progressed' through incremental steps to reach their goal.

We must keep showing how ANY compromise WILL eventually lead to defeat.

Same-sex relationships are bad for society, bad for the individual, and VERY bad for children who get caught up in them - either by personally experimenting with such relationships or by being raised two parents of the same gender.

We must try to protect children - not simply placate selfish adults.

Peter Stokes
Executive Officer
Salt Shakers
p: (03) 9800 2855
m: 0413 084 145
w: www.saltshakers.org.au

"Katter is a loose cannon" says banker

I was talking to a local banker a few days ago, and as we talked about the nation, he stated that Bob Katter is a "loose cannon" and he thinks he is detrimental to Australian politics.

I quietly asked him if he had gained this opinion from the media, or if he had actually actually looked at Katter's Australian Party web site, in particular the Issues Page. He said "no". I challenged him to consider the issues raised on this page.

I challenge you also dear reader. Please do not just listen to the short snippets carefully extracted from long conversations and placed in another context by media with a barrow to push. If you want to be a thinking person, intelligent enough to form your own opinion, please look at the issues on the web site.

People have very short memories. Don't you remember when the numbers were tight between Liberal and Labor last federal election, that Bob looked like a sane man with some good things to say? That was certainly the way the media portrayed him then. Nothing has changed with Bob. The media has just changed its stance because of the barrow it is pushing for its masters.

You may find Bob Katter is not the lunatic the media has started to paint him as. Please, look; think for yourself. Feel free to comment AFTER you have looked :)

Steve B

ps. I am not trying to tell you to support Bob. I am merely trying to stop demonisation of a man with a conscience. If you are a Christian, look and think, line up the issues against your core beliefs.

ACL Marriage Petition: Thankyou and status from Jim Wallace

Dear Steve,

It's been a busy week at the office finalising the petition that you signed. I wanted to personally thank you for making a stand. However, it's important to realise that the agenda for same-sex marriage isn't over and this is just round one.

I have recorded a short video message for you, which you can view by clicking the image below.

An important message from Jim Wallace - click here to view

God bless,
ACL

Jim Wallace, AM
Managing Director,
Australian Christian Lobby

52,000 Australians sign Senate marriage petition

Posted by Katherine Spackman, PR Officer on August 24th, 2011

ACL's MD Jim Wallace hands the petition to Senator Ron Boswell and Senator Helen Polley

August 24, 2011

52,000 Australians sign Senate marriage petition

In an extraordinary display of concern for the institution of marriage, more than 52,000 people, mainly from the Christian constituency across Australia, have signed a Senate petition to keep the current definition of marriage between a man and a woman, the Australian Christian Lobby’s Managing Director Jim Wallace said.
The campaign, man+wife4life on www.makeastand.org.au, will be the largest petition to be tabled in Senate in the life of the 43rd parliament.
As well as the petition, more than 20,000 people came to the website to send emails to politicians about the importance of marriage remaining between a man and a woman.
“This depth of support shows that Australians believe marriage between a man and a woman is important for the social makeup of society,” Mr Wallace said.
“Imagine this level of response multiplied across other faiths, which also support marriage between a man and a woman.
“Many people are concerned that children should be given the opportunity to be raised by a mother and father, where possible, and revising the marriage definition would remove that ideal.
“This petition shows that there is strong support amongst Christians for marriage to remain the same and debunks any poll suggesting otherwise,” he said.
ACL has previously dismissed a Galaxy Poll, commissioned by the Australian Marriage Equality, claiming 53 per cent of Christians supported gay marriage.
“Asking people what religion they belong in the poll is different than going to the Christian constituency directly, which we have done in the petition,” he said.