Australian Independent Baptist
Newsletter
JULY 2003
Dr. David C. Bennett, Editor (DCB)
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Editorial: Again this issue is predominantly focused on the gross sin
of sodomy. It seems the Sodomite issue is ever in the secular and
religious news. The following is from the Stephen Bennett (not related to
the editor) ministries, inc. web page viewed by this editor 8 July, 03.
The site said the article from which the following is taken was posted 20
August 2002
"The Harvard-trained social scientists in the late '80s
issued a call for 'gay' activists to adopt "...carefully calculated public
relations propaganda." Their plan came dressed up in marketing lingo:
"Desensitize, Jam and Convert." A better word to describe their call to 'homosexualize'
America: manipulation. Listen to what the book says - you won't believe
it. 'Desensitization,' write Kirk and Madsen, means subjecting the public
to a "continuous flood of gay-related advertising, presented in the least
offensive fashion possible. If 'straights' can't shut off the shower, they
may at least eventually get used to being wet.’ Friend, they're not
talking about advertising a product here, but advertising homosexuality."
‘The main thing is to talk about gayness until the
issue becomes thoroughly tiresome,’ they say. ‘If you can get [straights]
to think homosexuality is just another thing - meriting no more than a
shrug of the shoulders - then your battle for legal and social rights is
virtually won.’"
Australia along with most of the world have swallowed this hook, line,
and sinker. The loudest "religious" cry for the acceptance of Sodomites is
presently from the Anglican Communion. This group is out and out apostate
by their open acceptance of Sodomites not only into membership but into
positions of leadership. This is a sin that is not going away!
CNSNews.com SENATOR SPONSORS JUSTICE DEPT 'GAY PRIDE' CELEBRATION June
20, 2003 (Edited by DCB) "Capitol Hill - Sen. Frank Lautenberg Friday
hosted homosexual employees of the U.S. Department of Justice in the
Russell Senate Office Building for their annual ‘Gay Pride Month’
celebration. The New Jersey Democrat said Attorney General John Ashcroft
had ‘no rational or reasonable explanation’ for asking the group to pay
rent for Justice Department facilities they wanted to use for the private
affair.
Lautenberg - who did not attend the event but whose statement was read
by a staff member - is one of three members of Congress to attack the
Department of Justice (DOJ) in general and Ashcroft in particular. The
trio of Lautenberg, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) and Rep. Barney Frank
(D-Mass.) accuse the department of applying a double standard to ‘DOJ
Pride,’ a homosexual advocacy group of DOJ employees, as opposed to other
employee associations."
Lautenberg attacked those not in favour of the sodomite group using the
facilities rent free saying "The possibility that the department would put
the wishes of right-wing interest groups ahead of the civil rights of its
own employees is unconscionable."
Editor’s Comment: Pr 14:34 "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is
a reproach to any people."
Anglican Communion News Service (ACNS Hereafter) 27 JUNE 2003 ISSUES OF
HUMAN SEXUALITY AROUSE MIXED REACTIONS (Edited by DCB) "Issues of human
sexuality have had a profound impact on the Anglican Communion in recent
weeks, giving a cause for celebration for some and anxiety in others.
Firstly, there was the appointment of Canon Jeffrey John as the Bishop of
Reading, then the Diocese of New Westminster in Canada issued a formal
rite for the blessings of same sex unions and, to add insult to injury for
many conservatives and fundamentalists, the Diocese of New Hampshire
elected the Revd Canon Gene Robinson as its bishop."
Canon Robinson is the first openly gay man to be elected bishop in the
Anglican Communion. Some bishops, however, have admitted their
homosexuality later in their episcopacy. Reactions to his ordination have
been both strong and varied, although the landslide victory suggests that
many clergy and laity in his diocese have every faith in his ministry."
Robinson it is said "took the difficult decision to leave his wife
because he felt that God wanted him to acknowledge his sexuality." When
Robinson was asked "what risks he had taken for the Gospel?" he replied he
had risked the loss of his two daughters and "the exercise of my ordained
ministry in the Church." He went on to say that it left him "with two
unshakable things: my integrity and my God."
Peter Carnley, Primate of Australia said there was the "need for
honesty and humility, and a willingness to acknowledge the possibility of
alternative readings of hotly disputed texts."
Editor’s Comment: As the leper so the sodomite is unclean. Sodomy is
"going after strange flesh." The sin of sodomy is filling hospitals and
draining the health system of Australia and other nations. Sodomites as do
all sinners need to repent and place personal faith in the Lord Jesus
Christ resulting in a new heart and life.
Sydney Morning Herald 30 June 2003 QUEEN DISMAYED BY CHURCH SPLIT OVER
NEW BISHOP (Edited by DCB) "The Queen is deeply concerned by the
escalating rift in the Church of England over the appointment of a
homosexual priest as Bishop of Reading, palace officials say.
The Queen, who is the church's Supreme Governor, has been dismayed at
the extent to which the appointment of Canon Jeffrey John - which she
routinely approved this month - has divided senior Anglicans. She is
anxious for an early resolution to the controversy but does not feel it
appropriate to intervene."
Thirty Five senior Anglican clerics have "warned that the worldwide
Anglican Church would break up if the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan
Williams, went ahead with the appointment of Dr John."
John "has admitted that he is in a 27-year, faithful, same-sex
relationship with another Anglican vicar, but maintains that it has been
celibate since the 1990s. He was appointed by the Bishop of Oxford, the
Right Reverend Richard Harries, and a liberal who believes the church
should be "gay and lesbian friendly". The consecration of this Sodomite is
to be on 9 October.
Editor’s Comment: The sodomite Jeffery John has declined his
appointment as Bishop. Jude 1:4 "For there are certain men crept in
unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly
men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the
only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ."
Episcopalian News Service 3 June 2003 SUPREME COURT DECISION IN TEXAS
CASE PRAISED BY PRESIDING BISHOP (Edited by DCB) "Presiding Bishop Frank
Griswold issued a statement July 2 praising the US Supreme Court for its
6-3 decision in Lawrence v. Texas, which overturned the state's sodomy law
and reversed the high court's 1986 decision in Bowers v. Hardwick."
Griswold said "I add my voice to those who are heartened by the Supreme
Court ruling on the Lawrence vs. Texas case," which invalidated a Texas
law making sodomy a criminal offence. Of course the Episcopal Church hides
their unscriptural stance as a belief in civil rights for sodomites.
Other groups promoting sodomy were "the United Church of Christ, the
American Friends Service Committee, the Methodist Federation for Social
Action, the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism,
Hadassah/Women's Zionist Organization of America, and the Unitarian
Universalist Association."
Also filing legal briefs in support of sodomy were the "lesbian and gay
affinity groups for the American Baptists, Church of the
Brethren/Mennonites, Disciples of Christ, the Evangelical Lutheran Church,
Greek Orthodox, Latter-day Saints, Presbyterian Church USA, the Roman
Catholic Church, Pentecostal denominations, Seventh-day Adventists, United
Methodists, and groups representing lesbian and gay Jews and Muslims."
Editor’s Comment: Apostasy at its worse! 2Corinthians 6:17 "Wherefore
come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch
not the unclean thing; and I will receive you."
Yours against apostasy and for Biblical truth,
David C. Bennett, Titus 2:13
