It has begun.

When the Postal Vote returned a yes majority & our gutless government abandoned morality for popularity &, quite frankly, the peer pressure of other western nations, some of us knew that wasn't the end of it.  It was only the thin edge of the wedge. Seriously?  All your friends are jumping off the Harbour Bridge so you gotta go join them too? Adults are supposed to be beyond the schoolyard stuff, but apparently not.

I was appalled @ the vitriol Margaret Court coped for stating the conservative Christian position on everything LGBT. The woman is a tennis legend & a Rhema Pastor. As a pastor not only is she entitled to state the Church's position, she is required to! Now it is a man named Folau, who is, apparently, a Christian first & Rugby legend after that. Ok, so I wouldn't go on Twitter & say something along the lines of  *All homosexuals are going to HELL unless they repent & turn to God* ~ but that is certainly the conclusion I would draw from the scriptures. However... he is  entitled to state his beliefs without condemnation.  You don't have to agree with him.  That is your right, but you are required, in a civilised & egalitarian society, to tolerate his beliefs in the same way he is forced to tolerate others beliefs. And please, learn the meaning of homophobic before you use it to slander someone!  Homo = man; Phobia=fear ~ fear of man. *sigh* Not fear of homosexuals. And yes, these are journalists, who should certainly know better & how to use their mother tongue properly!

I know there is a quite large segment of Christianity who disagree with the traditional Conservative Christian viewpoint but I think they have misunderstood the scriptures & are now misrepresenting them to others ~ which would not matter except the wages of sin is death, homosexuality is a sin [yes, you can help it; it is a choice] & it will result in spiritual death. God doesn't want to see anyone in hell, so warning people is actually an act of love, not hate.

I am tired of hearing people justify their sin with excuses like: God made me this way. No, God did not!  When God created the world He declared everything *good*.  The Hebrew word is *tov* & it means *functioning in the way it was meant to.* Male/female is *tov* because the first command was to *Go forth & multiply*.  Anything else is dysfunctional & part of satan's great deception & man's rebellion.

What's more, There is no scientific or biological evidence to support the *I was born this way* belief but there is both scientific & biblical evidence to suggest that we train our brains in certain ways & they can be retrained.  I hear California has now made it illegal to help someone retrain their brain. *sigh*  So now even homosexuals don't get to choose either?

We have lost the art of civilised debate, of being able to state a philosophical position without reverting to slander or vilification. Robust debate is necessary to a healthy society.  When one segment of society seeks to shut down dissent in the name of *tolerance* [whereby it justifies intolerance in the name of tolerance], we are much sicker than we think we are ~ & baby, we are a very, very sick nation.  Gender Bender philosophy for kids who are still learning girl bits & boy bits are different; unisex toilets; men who think they are women & women who want to be men; gender neutral parenting; gender neutral language... This is relativism gone mad. May God forgive us; we know not what we do.