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My issues with the same-sex marriage plebiscite:
1. What a waste of money!
2. The vote isn't even binding - that's what a plebiscite is - a national non-binding vote - as compared to a referendum, which is a national binding vote.
3. This is a bad way to decide this matter.
4. This hasn't started well, it's not going to go well, and it's going to end really badly.
Reasons I think it should go ahead:
1. We will know for sure the opinion of 'the Australian people' either way; no more 'silent majority' bullshit.
As a Christian (self-identifying Australian Evangelical - somewhat different to the American type), I personally feel 'the church' should be focusing on other things. Yes, there will be some people who will want to storm the church and shove their rights and choices in the face of the church, but most will just want to go about their lives with whatever new privileges and rights they now hold.
Also, I just read a passage in a book I'm studying with my spiritual mentor right now "Pure Spirituality" by Vaughn Roberts, which notes that while, yes, Christians are free to exercise any freedom within the bounds of God's moral authority, there are reasons we might not wish to - the largest being that we are to be "all things to all men" so that we might be in a position to bring the gospel to our fellow man in love (and, yes, discretion).
Frankly, I fear this insistence on 'God's laws for a secular society' is going to burn the church's fingers for many generations - I mean, more than we've already burned it.
1. What a waste of money!
2. The vote isn't even binding - that's what a plebiscite is - a national non-binding vote - as compared to a referendum, which is a national binding vote.
3. This is a bad way to decide this matter.
4. This hasn't started well, it's not going to go well, and it's going to end really badly.
Reasons I think it should go ahead:
1. We will know for sure the opinion of 'the Australian people' either way; no more 'silent majority' bullshit.
As a Christian (self-identifying Australian Evangelical - somewhat different to the American type), I personally feel 'the church' should be focusing on other things. Yes, there will be some people who will want to storm the church and shove their rights and choices in the face of the church, but most will just want to go about their lives with whatever new privileges and rights they now hold.
Also, I just read a passage in a book I'm studying with my spiritual mentor right now "Pure Spirituality" by Vaughn Roberts, which notes that while, yes, Christians are free to exercise any freedom within the bounds of God's moral authority, there are reasons we might not wish to - the largest being that we are to be "all things to all men" so that we might be in a position to bring the gospel to our fellow man in love (and, yes, discretion).
Frankly, I fear this insistence on 'God's laws for a secular society' is going to burn the church's fingers for many generations - I mean, more than we've already burned it.
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God's laws for a secular society
Gee, you think?
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