Ten years for praying to keep your kid turn out like this?
Posted on 02/13/2021 6:09:49 PM PST by marshmallow
'Given that Christians are the main group being targeted here, we need to be aware of what is really going on. We either commit to standing for Christ… or we renounce our faith altogether and admit it was all just a charade. We must choose now.'
VICTORIA, Australia, February 12, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Christian leaders are poised to resist Victoria’s controversial Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition bill, which threatens parents with up to 10 years in prison if they don’t affirm their kids’ sexual confusion and bans “carrying out a religious practice, including but not limited to, a prayer-based practice, a deliverance practice or an exorcism” to help someone overcome unwanted sexual attractions.
The Presbyterian Church of Australia has been the first to raise its voice following the bill’s passage through the Victorian Upper House, with its Moderator Rev. Dr. Peter Barnes urging his ministers to remain faithful to scripture on all matters of sexual morality, including homosexuality and transgenderism.
“The Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill has now passed through both houses of the Victorian parliament. It forbids any attempt to change or suppress, or induce any person to change or suppress, his or her sexual orientation or gender identity. Prayer or counselling designed to change a person, even at that person’s request, is prohibited. In short, this means that sexual preference is protected by law, as is any person’s gender preference. Homosexual sex is not permitted to be called ‘sin’, and a male today can claim to be a female tomorrow,” Barnes said.
In his regular column for the Spectator Australia, fellow Presbyterian Minister Mark Powell doubled down on his superior’s statement.
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Just like the Democrats here will be soon. Off with their heads for being religious.
Criminal, totalitarian government.
“Criminal, totalitarian government.”
Rather, Satanic government.
Overcoming lust is CRITICAL ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL SKILL
Soon prayer will be taxed ?
So lets do it like on the Animal Channel
Or maybe we are something a bit more?
Something a bit finer.
Something created in the image of God?
No doubt many of the same persons that went after Cardinal Pell pushed for this legislation. I do believe such was already on their minds back then and is one major reason they went after Pell.
See #9
Just say it’s a Moslem program to convert homos back to normal.
Then it will be a-ok.
Ten years for praying to keep your kid turn out like this?
Sorry... from turning out like this?
To me, a key factor to this is “unwanted” same sex attraction.
I can think of many unwanted sexual problems or desires aside from homosexuality, which people would pray about overcoming.
This is dangerous territory, if we are not to pray about overcoming certain desires, which would in turn make us better people.
Or are they saying that homosexuality is so special, so important, that it is somehow sinful to want to avoid homosexual behavior?
Andrews needs a tour pf the Spratly Islands and a little beach time with Filipino Fishermen who have been bullied by the Red Chinese for decades.
He would change his pickle or have it detached.
He’s fast becoming the most reviled man in the country, he now has the entire State locked down even though there hasn’t been a single case of the virus outside the capital city.
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