We must remember though, that the reason Paul tells Timothy to pray for our leaders, when he says "Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority", is that "we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence." However, this isn't just so we can have a peaceful life for ourselves, but that it will allow the gospel to be spread more effectively, since God "desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth". (1 Tim 2: 1-7)
Sentinels Prayer Update - "Prayer for Our Leaders"
January 2009
Dear Friends
This is our first Prayer update for 2009 with a special focus on "Prayer for our Leaders."
We contacted a number of Frontline Aussie Christian leaders and asked them to explain, in one paragraph, why this is important - their answers are below. We also highlight an issue of major concern in 2009 and have a look back at some of the legislative changes .
It's been two years since we took time out from producing our Sentinels Prayer Updates in order to develop Link-Zone into a companion resource that encourages prayer for our Nation and support for those positioned on our Frontlines.
As previously declared, "we believe that our God is a God of strategy who purposefully positions and prepares His people to meet every need." With the unrelenting bombardment of 'bad' news and prophecies of 'doom' that target us daily, it is important that we are able to separate ourselves from the world's frustrations, fears and anger. Sentinel's intent, therefore, is to focus on God's perspectives, by being aware of what is happening in our world without vacating the role of watchmen.
We pray that you will find this update useful during this next season of prayer.
Under His Banner
1. A Challenge to Australians - Col Stringer
2. Of Major Concern in 2009
3. A Prayer for Our Leaders
4. Why Pray - Insight from Australian Frontline Leaders
5. What can happen in a Year! - overview of changes since Nov 2007
1. A Challenge To Australian Christians - Col Stringer
Let me challenge you to recommit yourself to the dual citizenship that we have. Make a quality decision to pray for the nation – every day! We, the believers, have our part to play! You and I can make a vast difference though our faith and prayers, how we live and conduct our lives. God is looking for men and women who will stand in the gap and make that difference. Men and women who are totally sold out to Him! People say to me, “But what can I do to help my nation to be blessed?” Firstly, you can pray for your nation.
Secondly, you can purpose in your heart to place Jesus first in your life and follow Him with all of your heart. It’s not enough to say that you are a believer, you must start to live like one. As we set an example through faith and prayer we can make a difference in our nation. Proverbs 14:34 says: “Righteousness exalts a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people.” We have a voice and we need to use it! There are many practical ways we can use that voice, firstly by praying for our nation and its leaders.
Thirdly, we can communicate our beliefs and desires to our politicians and leaders, as well as the judicial bodies of our government. These people are public servants and represent the people. We can make our voice be heard on a local, state and federal level. If we do not like certain things that are taking place in our nation we need to stand up and voice those concerns – then we also need to pray about them. Conversely if there are things taking place that we appreciate and applaud, then we need to congratulate and show our appreciation to these people. One of the most important areas we can lift our voices is in the area of prayer.
The Bible clearly declares that prayer can make a difference in guiding a nation. 2 Chron. 7:14 says: “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place.”
Notice something very important here, God did not say that He would heal the land when everyone got saved! He did not say that He would heal the land when the righteous were in authority. He did not even say that He would heal the land when everyone was living right for God. No, He said: “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray…”
That’s when things will change, that is when things will begin to happen – when we lift our voices in prayer! When we lift our voices to God and earnestly pray it will make a difference. You and I can make a difference! We can do something that will effect this nation – pray! We can open the windows of heaven over this great land of Australia. We can open a door for God to bless us by the place we take in prayer!
Our prayers – yours and mine – can make a difference. Our prayers – yours and mine – can impact our society and allowing God to intervene and work in this great nation. The most powerful position in the nation is not Parliament House in Canberra. It’s on our knees making earnest prayers to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords!
2. OF MAJOR CONCERN IN 2009 - An Australian Charter / Bill of Rights
The proposed Charter or Bill of Rights has Christians and non christians alike sitting up and taking notice across Australia ... the following quotes are taken from key articles on the topic for your information.
ARTICLES can be read in FULL via Link-Zone's ELECTION FOCUS column
Some of you may remember the two pastors - Daniel Scot and Danny Nalliah - who faced years of trauma before a Victorian tribunal because in 2002 they conducted a Christian seminar in a Christian church, on Islam. It took over five years for the complaint by the Islamic Council of Victoria to be settled - after more than a million dollars had been spent in costs on both sides. We owe much to the two pastors' courage and perseverance - but Victoria's religious vilification law is still on the statute books. Moreover a new religious freedom project by the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC, previously the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission - HREOC) could lead to a *national law against religious vilification*. As Victorian Supreme Court Justice Marcia Neave said, truth is no defence against such a law. (Do you value your religious freedom, Family Voice Australia, 5th Jan 09)
... The question is, do we need such a Charter or Bill of Rights (BoR)? We believe the answer is no - HERE ARE TEN REASONS WHY: - 1. We already have all major rights fully protected in Australia. The right to vote, freedom of speech, freedom of religion ... 2. Australian democracy already has a good safeguard of human rights in the form of its system of checks and balances ... 3. Rights enshrined in a BoR become fixed and very difficult to remove ... 4. A BoR will bring major changes to how legislation and policy are made. Parliaments are meant to perform these functions, not the courts ... 5. The courts become politicised and activist minority groups and special interest groups can use the courts to promote an agenda at odds with the majority ... 6. A BoR will lead to even further litigation and frivolous court cases ... 7. The enactment of a BoR will further add to the “rights culture” that is so characteristic of modern Western societies, along with a further erosion of responsibility.... 8. A BoR has not prevented human rights abuses in nations that have adopted them... 9. whatever can be achieved by a BoR can be achieved by existing means ... 10. Lastly, it must be remembered that rights just do not – or should not – spring from anywhere. For the Western world at least, rights claims have been based on two fundamental sources: the Judeo-Christian worldview, and natural law. While both sources can be debated and discussed, they have provided a firm foundation on which to work for fundamental rights and justice. We dare not so readily remove the base of our Western system of law before we are sure that what we are replacing it with will make for a better foundation. (What is Wrong with a Bill of Rights? B Muehlenberg, Jan 09)
.... The Inquiry is being run in “partnership” with Monash University, RMIT and the Australian Multicultural Foundation (AMF). What that really means is that the key people are Gary Bouma from Monash (who acted as an expert witness for the Islamic Council in the Catch the Fire vilification case), Des Cahill (RMIT) and Hass Dellal (a Muslim who runs the AMF).
These men also wrote the book called Religion, Cultural Diversity and Safeguarding Australia for an Immigration Department project in 2004. It proposed a rotating roster of prayers in federal Parliament, a national interfaith ‘sacred space’ and a Multifaith Council made up of representatives of all religions. That project also included a book to encourage local Councils to establish Interfaith Networks, and a sanitised guide to Islam. AHRC notes that the current Inquiry builds on these documents ( "Freedom of Religion - Time to Act!, Saltshakers, Jan 09)
... Supporters of a bill of rights in the constitution know it would be comprehensively defeated at a referendum. So they have adopted the alternative of supporting a charter of rights which can be enacted by politicians alone. Either way, the proposal would enhance the influence of unelected judges at the expense of the elected legislature. In Britain this has led to the enactment of what the Labour Justice Secretary Jack Straw has described as a "villain's charter" much beloved by "ambulance-chasing lawyers" who have a vested interest in human rights advocacy ... The evidence from Britain and Canada is that charters of rights protect the rights of a few individuals at the expense of the rights of the overwhelming majority of citizens. Moreover, few would argue that the US bill of rights makes that nation freer or more democratic than Australia. Regrettably neither position will be strongly heard in McClelland's national human rights consultation committee. ( "Voice of Minority Disappears - Gerard Henderson, SMH, Dec 08)
Politicians will be intimidated into falling in to line with the rights agenda of unelected judges should a national charter of rights be introduced. The Attorney General Robert McClelland tried to allay concerns about Parliament being usurped by judges when he announced that consultation on a charter is to commence. But the reality is that judges will issue proclamations ruling that some laws decided by democratically elected politicians contradict the charter. (Charter will Shame Politicians into Towing the Line - Australian Christian Lobby Dec 08)
Follow the money. And follow the power. This week both paths lead you straight to the legal profession and to the heartland of politically driven activists ... Like pigs sniffing for truffles, lawyers can smell the enticing waft of money and power in the air as they push open new legal industries. For the activists, it’s about influence as they seek to move from the irrelevant fringe of political life to the centre of the action. To coincide with the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, today the federal Government will announce a process to introduce a legislative charter of rights. Lawyers will be smiling. They will profit the most from the inevitable rights litigation unleashed by a charter. Inevitable because a charter is deliberately drafted in such vague language that only litigation will determine the ambit of the rights . (Keep Power with the People - The Australian Dec 08)
CALL it the first swallow of summer. Last week I met a lawyer who said while she opposed a charter of rights, all the barristers on her floor supported it, and for the obvious reason: the intoxicating whiff of litigation. A bill of rights, or a charter, will lay out abstractions like the right to life, or privacy, or property, and thus enable judges to determine - after deliciously drawn-out litigation - what these mean. A shift in power from elected parliaments to unelected judges, by a process of "judicial creep", is part of the bill of rights package ...Churches are becoming aware their immunity from anti-discrimination laws - a justified immunity - will end with a charter or a bill of rights. Church leaders can democratically lobby parliaments and cabinets, but not non-elected, tenured judges. (Lawyers are already drunk with power, Bob Carr, April 08)
(Note the date for submissions from members of the public has been extended to 28th February)
For more information about making a submission visit the Saltshakers Campaign page - http://www.saltshakers.org.au/html/P/302/B/563/
Two other items for prayer are the Decriminalisation of Abortion in Queensland, Funding of International Abortions and Queensland Election ... these will be covered in a future update.
3. A PRAYER FOR OUR LEADERS (adapted from John Haggai's 'definition of leadership' in his book, "Lead On.")
Father we thank you for this nation Australia and lift up our leaders to you.
We pray that:
- They will understand that they need to have the "foresight, wisdom, determination and knowledge of your Will."
- That you will equip them with the humility needed to continually grow in the discipline of leadership.
- That you will arm them with your strength and wisdom so that they are not corrupted by the desire for power.
- That their influence is used to establish results that benefit this nation and do not enable the corruption or destruction of our foundational values.
- That they have the sensitivity to discern this nations' real needs and the integrity to implement strategies to meet them.
- That those who are struggling to fulfill their leadership role will draw closer to you for the skill and courage they need to achieve their calling.
- That they will understand that the insight to navigate this world's political environment in order to "defuse the ticking bomb of angry people on earth" comes only from you and is beyond any man's cleverness.
The above is adapted from John Haggai's 'definition of leadership' in his book, "Lead On." The quote used has been reproduced at the end of the web version of this page but is not included in the print or email versions of this update.
4. Why Pray - Insight from Australian Leaders
Brian Pickering, National Coordinator, Australian Prayer Network
"The greatest contribution a Christian can make towards establishing and maintaining a Godly direction for our nation is to pray for our leaders. God himself is so much more able than we are to effect change and His instruction to pray for those in authority over us is not only good advice but an imperative if we are to live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.(1 Tim 2: 1-2)."
Jim Wallace AM, Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby
As Christians, we have a responsibility to uphold our leaders in prayer. Verses such as 1 Timothy 2:1-2; Romans 13: 1-5; 1 Peter 2:13, 14; and Titus 3:1 provide further insight on this issue. We need to pray for those who govern us, taking an active interest in them and their well-being. There is also a great need for Christians to involve ourselves thoughtfully and responsibly in the political process.
Our proximity to politicians makes us very aware of the incredible burden of public office and particularly its effect on family. It also makes us sensitive to the incredible political and public pressure they are under to compromise personal values to achieve politically correct solutions.
David & Roslyn Phillips, FamilyVoice Australia.
“The apostle Paul taught us that we need to pray for “kings and those in authority” (1Tim 2:1,2). That may seem a strange request, especially if the person in authority is someone like the monstrous Roman emperor Nero. But leaders with foolish or dangerous policies need prayer more than most!
We are living in challenging times of moral and financial meltdown (in that order), along with extremist Muslim terrorism. World leaders are desperately throwing money at the problem, but recent statements indicate they may be out of their depth. Australian leaders, including Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull, Anna Bligh and Lawrence Springborg, need our prayers for God’s wisdom as never before – so that “ we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness”.
Peter & Jenny Stokes, Saltshakers
“It is vital that Christians pray for our community and political leaders. Our democratic system allows us to have a say in who is elected, but that doesn't mean we will agree with all the policies of the elected government. In fact, we have a responsibility to put a Christian perspective into political debates and that may mean opposing policies proposed by the government of the day. However, we still need to pray for our political leaders. We need to pray that they will have wisdom and discernment and that they will look to God for that wisdom.
Bill Muehlenberg, Culture Watch, Secretary of the Family Council of Victoria, Lecturer in theology, apologetics and ethics
Scripture makes it clear that we are to pray for our leaders (see for example 1 Tim. 2:1-2). As governments and leadership becomes increasingly secular and anti-Christian, this is all the more important. And there is a practical benefit as well: “seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper." (Jer. 29:7) Pray that leaders make wise and godly decisions, and that God’s will can take place through their rule.
Geoffrey Bullock, Queensland State Officer of FamilyVoice Australia.
“Christians are called to pray “for kings and all are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way” (1 Timothy 2:2 ESV). We are also called to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us (Matthew 5:44), and that includes leaders of our land who are opposed to the Christian gospel. In 2008, one state MP refused my desire for 15 minutes of her time to explain FamilyVoice’s ‘raison d’être’. She stated that she knew what we were on about, and expressed her opposition to our stance on issues. I expressed my disappointment, but honoured her request. How important that I maintain a loving and dignified stance in my future approaches to her! This, coupled with prayer, may be the only inroads God has to her life. As I shine the light of Christ’s love in these ways, God can help her see her need of Him.”
5. What can happen in a year ... ( since Nov 2007 - For Source see the Election Focus Column - www.Link-Zone.net )
| Nov 07 | Australia Votes website set up by the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) - http://www.australiavotes.org/ |
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| Dec 07 | The ACT revives bid to allow gay marriages now the federal Liberal Party which twice blocked the plan is out of the way. |
| Victorian Government announces changes to surrogacy laws - single women & lesbians to get fertility treatment without having to be certified as medically infertile. | |
| The ACL thanked PM Kevin Rudd for confirming Labor’s commitment to upholding the status of heterosexual marriage | |
| Jan 08 | Attorney-General Robert McClelland held talks with constitutional experts on creating a national charter. |
| Council of Australian State and Territory Liberal and Country Liberal Leaders established | |
| Julia Gillard's office confirmed Howard's $90 million school chaplains program will be changed into a secular scheme | |
| VICTORIA set for parliamentary debate on euthanasia after the Government agreed not to block Private Member's Bill. | |
| Feb 08 | ACT Government Courts Same Sex Activists but Ignores Thousands Supporting Traditional Family |
| CLAUSES in the ACT's civil partnerships bill that would allow gay couples to hold a public ceremony marking their union are unacceptable, Attorney-General Robert McClelland says | |
| Aboriginal welcome Ceremony during opening of Australian parliament ... "I stand here before you in this same great institution of ceremonial dress, barefoot, honoured and welcome," ... "A welcome to country acknowledges our people and pays respect to our ancestors' spirits who've created the lands," | |
| ... the winds of change were freshening as a majority of Labor MPs refused to be sworn in holding Bibles, instead exercising their option to offer an affirmation of allegiance. Of the Labor frontbench, only Mr Rudd, Simon Crean, Martin Ferguson and Peter Garrett took the Bible in hand as they declared their allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II and her heirs and successors. | |
| The most violent video games around could soon be sold in Australia after the Federal Government said it was considering updating the classification system for games to include an R18+ rating. | |
| The rapid growth of faith-based schools under the previous federal government has threatened the social cohesion of the nation, according to Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard's most senior education adviser | |
| Mar 08 | AUSTRALIA is set to ratify the international treaty against torture ... |
| Gordon Moyes asked: Is the Minister aware that New South Wales faces a homelessness epidemic ... | |
| John Black produced his profile of the 2007 Australian Election... the religious affiliation of swinging voters played a more decisive role in determining the outcome than any other single factor... | |
| Saltshakers congratulated PM Rudd for putting pressure on States to reduce their reliance on poker machine revenue | |
| Dr Sharman Stone, was stunned to hear Labor backbencher Daryl Melham admit in Parliament today that Labor’s NT Intervention measures were to be ‘rolled back’.... “The Rudd Labor Government has decided that pornography on subscription television will now not be banned unless it exceeds 35 per cent of the content over seven days or the community asks for it to be banned. | |
| Bob Brown bill to reinstate NT’s euthanasia laws & to restore to the ACT & NT the ability to legislate on euthanasia | |
| Apr 08 | QLD Health admitted giving girls as young as 12 the contraceptive Implanon - a small plastic rod containing the hormone progestogen which is inserted into the arm and lasts three years. |
| the ACT Legislative Assembly passed in principle a bill to permit embryonic cloning for research purposes | |
| Bob Carr said: Last week I met a lawyer who said while she opposed a charter of rights, all the barristers on her floor supported it, and for the obvious reason: the intoxicating whiff of litigation. | |
| May 2008 | REPORT: Australia's Homeless Youth, showed that over the past twenty years, homelessness has increased to approximately 22 thousand people, despite economic growth in the nation. |
| The ACT government has passed their Civil Partnerships Bill - they removed the 'ceremony' component after the Rudd government threatened to override the Bill. |
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| Jun 08 | AUSTRALIAN troops began arriving home from Iraq |
| Senator Ron Boswell asked: "Why is the Rudd government even considering funding abortion in its overseas aid programs when Australia has never done so in the past and has not been approached by other countries to do so?" | |
| Gordon Moyes MLC explained how the Same Sex Bill was Lost : Well, the worst happened. Last Tuesday, on the day the Budget was delivered and everybody was busy with the Budget details, the Government pushed this Bill into the Upper House for approval. The Labor Party refused its own members the right to a conscience vote and many Christian Labor members were restrained to vote against their beliefs. The National Party spoke in support and voted unanimously to support these disastrous consequences as outlined .... The Liberal Party allowed their "right wing religious" members the opportunity to vote and speak against it, but the Greens and Shooters Party supported it. | |
| PM Kevin Rudd proposed the creation of an Asia-Pacific community ... a European-style union | |
| ACL's Jim Wallace urged Fed Government to appoint Fedl Children's Commissioner to advocate for needs of children | |
| A 12-year-old girl allowed to begin first phase of a sex change after a Victorian judge decided it was in her best interests | |
| The NSW Administrative. Decisions Tribunal ruled that Dalmar Child & Family Care cannot discriminate against homosexuals being foster carers | |
| The SA Upper House passed surrogacy laws which recognise biological parents of child born to a surrogate mother | |
| Fred Nile denounced calls Islamic Friendship Association to allow Muslims to have multiple wives in Australia. |
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| Jul 08 | WA Surrogacy Bill 2007 passed in Upper House - conscience vote of 27-5 despite concerns that surrogacy is not in the best interests of the child and can have serious legal and relational consequences |
| Fedl Gov will spend $460,000 on a national suicide prevention strategy, as part of a focus to improve men's health | |
| A bill recognising biological parents of child born to a surrogate mother passed SA Upper House = a conscience vote. | |
| Hundreds of Aboriginal men from across Australia have issued an historic apology to their women for the "pain, hurt and suffering" indigenous men have caused them | |
| Aug 08 | Sen Helen Polley called on Federal and State Govs to implement ‘Safe Haven’ legislation & save the lives of children |
| Charities and other non-government organisations could lose billions of dollars' worth of tax perks as the Government's taxation review prepares to examine whether the concessions offered to the $80 billion non-profit sector are justified. | |
| Steve Fielding said : AUSTRALIA'S health system is in crisis with more than 7000 students unable to get a medical place at uni - ."When will Rudd Gov increase the number of medical places & scrap the cap on hospitaltraining places? | |
| Louise Pratt, who is the first member of the Australian parliament to have a trans partner, used her maiden Senate speech to make a passionate plea for marriage equality. | |
| Sept 08 | Matthew Guy MLC said: Tail-docking a dog would be illegal, putting a lobster in boiling water would be illegal, but it will be legal to abort a six-month-old child if this Bill passes. (Victorian Liberal MP, Victoria on the Abortion Law Reform Bill) |
| Senator Guy Barnet urged Senators to vote against the Medicare of funding of abortions | |
| Australia's first female governor-general, Quentin Bryce was sworn in at Parliament House. | |
| NATHAN Rees became Labor premier of New South Wales after Morris Lemma was forced to stand down | |
| Bishop Christopher Prowse declared the Victorian Abortion Reform bill to be a Mockery of Human Rights: "I do not believe that our community wants to force nurses, many of whom have a conscientious objection, to assist in late term abortions ... Catholic hospitals will not perform abortions and will not provide referrals for the purpose of abortion. | |
| 2,000 Christians took part in the "Freedom to be Born" March ... opposed by 100 death protestors ... | |
| The Victorian Abortion Law Reform Bill passed by final vote of 49 to 32 - all proposed amendments = defeated | |
| Malcolm Turnbull is elected to lead the Federal Parliamentary Liberal Party of Australia | |
| FORMER PM John Howard awarded the Winston S Churchill Medal of Freedom at a ceremony in Los Angeles | |
| Fed Gov is prepared to borrow for first time in more than a decade to fund ambitious infrastructure building program | |
| Oct 08 | NSW Gov decides to fund Mardi Gras as schools, hospitals, roads and rail projects are dumped |
| Businessman Matthew Pierce protested daily from 6.30am to 6.00pm for 19 days on steps of Victorian Parliament against abortion reform heartbroken at the passing of the bill he said: "It is now legal in the state of Victoria to take the life of a child up to and during birth. We must fight this horror, which is the absolute height of selfishness | |
| Doctors protested agains abortion form & created a new "Doctors in Conscience Against Abortion" website. | |
| 3,000 people gathered outside Victoria's Parliament house to pray and protest Abortion reform | |
| Emily's list celebrate the passing of Abortion reform in Victoria = a successful reform that is part of their push to get progressive (pro-choice) Labor MPs in all areas of government | |
| Reproductive Treatment bill snuck in & passed whilst Abortion bill distracted attention .. it allows single people and same-sex couples to use technology & surrogacy to create “families” where children are purposefully denied the most basic human right, that to a mother AND a father. |
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| A Victorian Government bill removes the idea that kids should have a right to both a mother and a father. | |
| Greens toasted their new role as the ACT's kingmakers after tripling their representation in the Assembly and gaining the power to choose the next chief minister | |
| We are creating a new class of parent – a ‘fother’,” said Senator Ron Boswell, “A fother is a person who is not the mother or father in any physical or biological way or a person who replicates that role in a heterosexual relationship | |
| Nov 08 | Greens leader Bob Brown introduced a fresh bill to overturn ban NT governments' right to legalise euthanasia |
| Lord's Praer survived attempts to have it removed from Parliamentary procedure | |
| Australia voted against Israel on 2 resolutions at the UN, ending Howard gov's alignment with the US | |
| Australian Sex Party launched - as a political response to the sexual needs of Australia in the 21st century | |
| Dec 08 | Nicola Roxon sacks Warwick Marsh as Men's Health Ambassador after accusations of homophobia |
| Gordon Moyes MLC asked: Minister for Police. Is the Minister aware that Sydney remains the most significant entry point for trafficked women and that New South Wales and Victoria are the States where most trafficked women and associated crime groups operate? | |
| WA Surrogacy laws pass - ACL said“It was very disappointing to see the surrogacy bill passed with no requirements that surrogacy should only occur within a committed relationship between a man and a woman,” | |
| QLD: State Government Ministers still have the green light to lie to Parliament after Labor used its numbers to vote down the 'Truth in Parliament' Bill proposed by the LNP | |
| Victoria rushed through, with no chance for proper public scrutiny, legislation, which, among other things, enables two men to “order” a baby they are not even genetically connected to. “It will also mean that genuinely infertile women will now have to compete for access to infertility treatment with women who are ‘socially infertile’, and genetic material can be removed from a dead person and used to create a child.” | |
| Attorney General Robert McClelland launched National consultation of Human Rights |
and combine the words "watching" and "feeling" in their description. I think of "Sentinels" as
being those the Lord positions in specific areas to Guard over Community, National and
Governmental issues needing Prayer.
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