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Debates about multiculturalism never seem to go away. I suppose that's because our world today is teeming with diversity and we're all rubbing shoulders and trying to get on with each other as best we can. Well, almost all of us. This week Chuck Colson, from Prison Fellowship in the U.S., described multiculturalism as "the …
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In the U.S., President Obama has dismayed many Christians by declining to defend his country’s Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as only between a man and a woman. Gay rights groups have welcomed the decision, while critics have called it the road to moral and legal chaos. In Australia too, bills calling for …
One of the principle moral challenges facing NSW politicians during this election campaign is how to balance the need for gambling reform against pressure from cashed-up pubs and clubs who donate to political parties and demand relaxing rather than tightening the law. Both the Premier, Kristina Keneally, and Opposition Leader Barry O’Farrell have indicated they …
Speech by Rod Benson, Public Affairs Director, NSW Council of Churches, to a public meeting for "Save Our Scripture," NSW Parliament, Monday 28 February 2011. There were about 180 people present. For more than 140 years students in NSW state schools have enjoyed access to religious education, a situation that is the envy of my …
On Tuesday night I joined about 140 senior church leaders at the NSW Parliament to hear Labor Premier Kristina Keneally and Opposition Leader Barry O'Farrell address the first NSW election forum convened by the Australian Christian Lobby. Both leaders made initial statements and then took questions from church leaders. Premier Keneally spoke of the challenge …
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