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Filed on 14 September 2012 in Food For Thought category. Print This Page

Just a reminder of how serious this battle (SSM) is.

The three great risks to Western civilisation are:

• the rebellion against what it means to be created in the Image of God, a rejection of who God is and what it means to be human.
• the threat to marriage and family, the move to re-define male and female and thus ultimately destroy the fabric of society.
• the challenge to freedom of belief and to speak of what we believe – to speak the truth.

These three core elements are the basis of the Manhattan Declaration, the Westminster  Declaration and the Canberra Declaration.

It is the latter of these threats that should concern us most as Christians. We will be persecuted for telling the truth. As has happened elsewhere we will lose our freedom to pull our children out of classes that teach opposing values and we will even be limited in what we can teach our children at home. State indoctrination of our children is the end result.

What has brought this about? In part it is the New Atheism, in part the social engineers and left-wing ideologues, but more than anything else it is the homosexual push for same-sex marriage. Legalisation of same-sex marriage will be the catalyst for anti-discrimination tribunals to exercise control over Christian speech and belief.

Losing the fights against destructive embryo research, against abortion (no, we have not lost that yet), against euthanasia or eugenic selection would be tragic and we would be in moral free-fall but losing the fight against same-sex marriage will herald a new age of Christian persecution.

It seems that a vote is likely this coming week. I believe that if we can hold off the push for same-sex marriage this year the momentum will lessen as people become tired of the illogical arguments in its support. It is time to pray.

Lachlan Dunjey. 14 Sept 2012.