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The Australian Federation for the Family

 

Full time lobbyists for Aussie families since 1983. 
  
AFF is dedicated to upholding Biblical family values,
promoting a Biblical Christian Worldview
and educating and mobilising concerned individuals
to positively effect their homes, communities, country and world. 
  
We not only encourage Christians to be "salt" and "light",
but provide credible strategies for doing so. 
 
One of our specific goals is the removal of pornography from
the family marketplace where children have access. 



Links between pornography and sexual violence by Jack Sonnemann

Links between pornography and sexual violence Part 2 by Jack Sonnemann

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Sunday, November 21, 2004

Porn by any other name is still porn
Congratulations to the OFLC for upholding their own classification guidelines by banning Michael Winterbottom's film 9 Songs.
 
Last week the Office of Film and Literature Classification voted 7 to 1 to award an X18+ classification to the film, due to the "frequency, duration and detail of the explicit [actual] sexual activity"
 
One of the usual suspects up in arms about the decision is the film's distributor, Accent Film Entertainment, who have appealed the decision.
 
The OFLC are not film critics.  Their job is to view films with the Australian guidelines in mind and uphold them, without reference to any possible "artistic merit".
 
It is important that we support the OFLC's decision as the appeal is underway.  Click to thank the OFLC and its director Des Clark for giving 9 Songs an X rating.  Ask them to continue to uphold the guidelines in a fair and impartial manner.
source: The Australian Nov 17
10:05 pm est 

Brothel-free zones create red-light district?!
Tas Attorney Gen Judy Jackson is recommending that brothels be allowed to open right next door to schools and churches - next door to your home!
 
Her reason?  200 m. buffer zones create red-light districts!
 
So let's have brothels...everywhere!
 
Despite this convoluted logic, we think Tasmanians can easily see that it's brothels that create red-light districts, not the absence of them!
 
Please contact Tas MP's (even non Tasmanians please write or email to say that this nonsense is making Tassie the object of derision...Tas politicians tend to feel a bit of "cultural cringe" and your out-of-State - or international - letter can be a wake-up call).
 
Use our Lobby page to email (as many as possible) Tasmanian MP's or write to The Premier Paul Lennon, Parliament House, Hobart, TAS 7000.
 
They plan is to legalise prostitution by saying in their Orwellian way, "It already exists, so we'll just 'regulate' it!"; trying to rush Tas brothel "regulation" through before the end of session (less than 2 weeks).
 
Please tell them NO brothels, NO legal, state-endorsed prostitution. Not any, not anywhere.
 
Margaret Sonnemann
11:08 am est 

Saturday, November 13, 2004

South Australian Same-Sex-Relationships Bill

The SA government is scheduled to begin debating the controversial Statutes Amendment (Relationships) Bill in the coming week. It proposes to give "relationship rights" to homosexual couples. 

Mrs Ros Phillips, of Festival of Light (FOL) SA says "The Relationships Bill would delete the word 'spouse' from over 80 SA laws, replacing it with 'domestic partner'. Adoption and IVF laws are the only exceptions, but SA Attorney-General Michael Atkinson said in his second reading speech on 15/9/04 that further amendments to allow same-sex couples to adopt and use IVF 'remain under consideration'."

IF this is a concern to you as a South Australian, contact your MPs.  If you have friends/family in SA, contact or send this link to them.
 
Only a short, 2-line letter is required:
 
1. Ask your MPs to oppose the Statutes Amendment Bill.
 
2. Request a reply so that you can tell all your friends (or neighbours, or club, or playgroup, or church...)
 
Even a reason is not strictly necessary; the purpose of your email/letter is to be counted.

Go to our Lobby page to email your Members of the Legislative Council and Premier Mike Rann.
11:17 pm est 

Thursday, November 11, 2004

Violence in GLBT Community?
The Tasmanian government is set to introduce new domestic violence laws.  Ms Jackson is quoted as saying family violence was a "horrific crime" that would not be tolerated.

But wait a minute.  Didn't her government just pass laws, against overwhelming public opposition, to allow homosexual 'couples' to adopt children?  Is the Tasmanian Atty Gen Judy Jackson too politically correct to recognise or address the massive problem of domestic violence occurring in homosexual couples?

The Journal of Interpersonal Violence (Dec 1994) examined conflict and violence in lesbian relationships.  90% of the lesbians surveyed had been recipients of one or more acts of verbal aggression from their intimate partners during the year prior to the study, with one or more incidents of actual physical abuse.

In a survey of 1,099 lesbians, the Journal of Social Science Research (vol 15, 1991, pages 41-59) found that "slightly more than half of the lesbians reported that they had been abused by a female lover/partner.  The most frequent forms of abuse were verbal/emotional/psychological abuse and combined with physical/psychological abuse."

In their book The Men Who Beat The Men Who Love Them: Battered  Gay Men and Domestic Violence, D Island and P Lettellier (New York: Hawthorn Press, 1991, page 14) report that "the incidence of violence among gay men is nearly double that in the heterosexual population."

The U S Justice Department reports that "married women in traditional families experience the lowest rate of violence compared with women in other types of relationships."  (Bureau of Justice Statistics Selected Findings, November 1994, page 2.)  The Medical Institute for Sexual Health goes on to say, "...marriage relationships tend to have the least intimate partner violence...".

Now that the Attorney General and her misguided colleagues have decided to turn their backs on women and children in Tasmania and allow homosexuals to adopt children will they take on the responsibility of protecting these women and children from the proven atmosphere of domestic violence so overwhelming prevalent in the homosexual community?
2:16 pm est 

Tuesday, November 9, 2004

Taxpayer Funded Elective Abortions in Australia?
Alot is being made lately of the abortion issue.
 
Here are the facts.
 
Out of approx 100,000 abortions, 73,191 were Medicare (that's your taxes) funded between 7/2003 and 6/2004. That's an overwhelming majority in anyone's book.
 
South Australia, the only state publishing detailed data on abortions, provides a snapshot of what's happening Australia-wide.
 
In SA:
 
53.9% of abortions were performed on women that were married or in defacto relationships. (not the proverbial rape victims, incest victims or even temporary relationships)
 
Less than 3% were performed for medical reasons
 
0.3% were due to a woman's medical condition.
 
1. Write to your MP and to the Prime Minister and Hon Peter Costello (Treasurer) to request that Medicare funds no longer be used for abortions.
 
2. Click to thank Major General Michael Jeffery, Governor-General (or write to Government House, Yarralumba, ACT, 2600) for his public statements about the number of abortions in Australia.  He said that he would like to see the number reduced to zero, and we would certainly agree with him.  We do not endorse his proposed solution - better education and wider availability of contraceptives - because research suggests that there is a direct link between morally-neutral sex education and an increase in the number of unplanned pregnancies and subsequent abortions. 

3. Contact both Hon Tony Abbott (Minister for Health) and Senator Eric Abetz (TAS) to commend them for their comments on the subject of abortion-on-demand. 
 
source: The Australian, Monday November 8, 2004
7:49 pm est 


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