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		<title>Marriage serves the common good</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the Queensland Parliament passing its same-sex civil unions bill on Wednesday, and the ALP national conference making its decision on same sex marriage this weekend, it’s worth stepping back and considering just what’s at stake in terms of Christian opposition to proposed changes to marriage laws. No religious tradition can claim ownership of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6661900&amp;post=1824&amp;subd=rodbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will the PM keep her word?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The surprise move this week by the Gillard Government to replace Labor’s Harry Jenkins with the Liberals’ Peter Slipper as Speaker of the House of Representatives has led to speculation that the deal struck between independent MP Andrew Wilkie and Prime Minister Julia Gillard to introduce mandatory pre-commitment technology for poker machines is off. But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6661900&amp;post=1808&amp;subd=rodbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage rally in Sydney Dec 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Benson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’re hearing it a lot these days: “equal love,” “marriage equality.”  But cut through the spin and rhetoric, and you’ll find that opposition to same sex marriage is not about defending the prejudices of bigots and homophobes, but about promoting the profound benefits that marriage delivers to society. Our greatest national resource is our families, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6661900&amp;post=1806&amp;subd=rodbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage petition passes 80,000</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Benson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next weekend the ALP National Conference is expected to decide on whether to change its policy and formally support same-sex marriage.  There is a great deal of concern among people of faith, and more broadly in the Australian community, at the prospect of one of the bedrock institutions of our society being transformed by a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6661900&amp;post=1804&amp;subd=rodbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Humanists object to Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With just four weeks to go, the Christmas rush is on in earnest.  Gifts are being bought, presents wrapped, carols are playing, Christmas trees and nativity scenes are appearing, and we’re winding down in readiness for another hot lazy Australian summer commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ. Meanwhile, in America, the Humanist Association has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6661900&amp;post=1802&amp;subd=rodbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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