The Elections
Many of the issues at the Federal election have already been debated in the State Parliament. Members of the public have been very vocal and I have replied to hundreds of letters and emails. My speeches on the issues are to be found in Hansard or at http://www.gordonmoyes.com Now the pressure is upon the Federal Government to enact similar legislation.
I have spoken and voted on such issues as the following, which are now put at risk by the alliance between the Labor Party and the Greens. Labor is led by a woman who says she is a non-believer, and who is living in a de facto relationship. She has no moral compunction about supporting much on the Greens agenda. The Greens are an atheistic party totally opposed to many of the things Christians believe are important. Now Labor will support them in return for the Green preferences.
For example, the Labor/Greens bloc, if elected, will not model Christian marriage and fatherhood in national leadership. Instead, they will liberalise abortion; promote the homosexual agenda; reduce religious freedom through anti-discrimination laws, remove prayer from parliament; disable ISP filtering designed to protect children from the dark side of the web; secularise school chaplaincy; and undermine the Christian principle that marriage is between one man and one woman.
This agenda makes it hard for any Christian to support the Labor/Greens alliance. Remember, you may prefer one candidate to another as the better Prime Minister, but you are not actually voting for them but for the agenda they espouse.
There is a huge difference between the parties’ commitment to upholding the national values based on our Judeo-Christian heritage. In the last election, many Christians felt it was time to change from a conservative Prime Minister and Party to Labor, and because Kevin Rudd was a Christian father who encouraged the Christian vote as he considered it important from both an electoral point of view and because of his personal faith and values.
But in the last 12 months the Labor party power brokers abandoned any interest in the Christian faith because they didn’t consider it important from either an electoral or values perspective. They demonstrated their choice of power over principle by ousting their own Christian Prime Minister and replacing him with an atheist who proposes to live in the Lodge with a person who is not her husband.
Now because of the support of the Greens, all Christian values are now under threat.
You should make your vote count by voting first for Family First candidates, thus making a clear statement of support for Christian values. Family First is ranked equal top of all political parties for our adherence to Christian principles. But if you also consider our commitment to social justice for all families in the community, we are by far the most Christian of all parties, as we were judged in the recent South Australian poll – the only party to score 100/100.
Our preferences will flow to the Coalition leaving the Greens, the Sex Party and Labor at the bottom of our ticket. They oppose Christian values at their peril.
REV HON DR GORDON MOYES AC MLC