sin, death & the grave. The individual then personally repents & turns away from sin & believes on the Lord Jesus as their personal Lord and Saviour. They then live as unto Him in submission to Him. This means that the individual believer in the Lord Jesus will apply His Word in the way that they think, live & behave in daily life. The Bible becomes their rule of life. That means that the values, morals & principles as revealed in the Bible will be their rule of life & so will be publicly expressed both in word & behaviour. In order for that person to live a consistent Christian life they need the freedom to express these values, morals & principles without the fear of legal action being taken against them. If these freedoms are not guaranteed then we are no better than a totalitarian country & we have allowed ourselves to descend to the level of the likes of the Communist regimes or the Islamic regimes where such freedoms are punished with loss of property, prison sentences & worse. This is Australia where, as a nation, we have been involved in wars to preserve the freedoms that we inherited from a Christian British system. We cannot allow that to be lost. We need laws that protect all individuals from losing the freedoms that we have grown up with in this country. It does not mean that we can use that freedom to incite to hatred of or violence to another person or persons but, in recent times, we have seen individual freedoms removed because homosexual activists have claimed that the expressions of normal individuals where they have expressed their opposition to the homosexual lifestyle or same sex marriage etc are charged with hate speech or are labelled homophobes when in fact the individuals are simply expressing their beliefs regarding a controversial issue. If this enquiry is going to be a true enquiry into this issue & give the general public a just outcome it must recommend that individual freedoms be preserved so that honest conviction & beliefs are once again allowed to be expressed in the public domain without the ability of radical activists being able to use any sort of law to intimidate, silence or punish that person. Otherwise this enquiry is just a farce & a ploy by the Government to pretend to be concerned about individual freedoms & religious freedoms considering the fact that
sin, death & the grave. The individual then personally repents & turns away from sin & believes on the Lord Jesus as their personal Lord and Saviour. They then live as unto Him in submission to Him. This means that the individual believer in the Lord Jesus will apply His Word in the way that they think, live & behave in daily life. The Bible becomes their rule of life. That means that the values, morals & principles as revealed in the Bible will be their rule of life & so will be publicly expressed both in word & behaviour. In order for that person to live a consistent Christian life they need the freedom to express these values, morals & principles without the fear of legal action being taken against them. If these freedoms are not guaranteed then we are no better than a totalitarian country & we have allowed ourselves to descend to the level of the likes of the Communist regimes or the Islamic regimes where such freedoms are punished with loss of property, prison sentences & worse. This is Australia where, as a nation, we have been involved in wars to preserve the freedoms that we inherited from a Christian British system. We cannot allow that to be lost. We need laws that protect all individuals from losing the freedoms that we have grown up with in this country. It does not mean that we can use that freedom to incite to hatred of or violence to another person or persons but, in recent times, we have seen individual freedoms removed because homosexual activists have claimed that the expressions of normal individuals where they have expressed their opposition to the homosexual lifestyle or same sex marriage etc are charged with hate speech or are labelled homophobes when in fact the individuals are simply expressing their beliefs regarding a controversial issue. If this enquiry is going to be a true enquiry into this issue & give the general public a just outcome it must recommend that individual freedoms be preserved so that honest conviction & beliefs are once again allowed to be expressed in the public domain without the ability of radical activists being able to use any sort of law to intimidate, silence or punish that person. Otherwise this enquiry is just a farce & a ploy by the Government to pretend to be concerned about individual freedoms & religious freedoms considering the fact that
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