Stephen McAlpine: Faith-Based Schools To Fall Off The Precipice

May 9, 2019May 9, 2019 / newlifenarrabri / Leave a comment

Steven McAlpine warns us of the fruits of Same Sex “Marriage.” The political Left are out to destroy all opposition to its agenda of suppressing freedom of thought and conscience

Faith-Based Schools To Fall Off the Precipice

MAY 8, 2019STEPHENMCALPINE

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I made a comment to a non-Christian friend who sends their child to a faith-based school that employs practicing Christian teachers, that their decision to vote YES in the same sex plebiscite might mean they would soon be looking somewhere else to school their child.

They seemed surprised. I didn’t say it with any particular emotion. I just made the point that, as I said at the time of the SSM legislation, the decision was not a slippery slope, but a precipice point.

It will change a lot more than marriage, and it will do so quickly. The YES vote would prove to be an anchor with a whole raft of other issues tied to it that will get pulled over the edge with the weight it carries. That was not how it was presented of course. It was presented as a discrete issue that was all about how we live our private lives.

But here’s the fact: Many a parent voted YES for same sex marriage, never realising they were voting NO for the education model they so value for their children.

Same sex marriage in Australia, despite all the assurances from many of those advocating it, was always going to be a tipping point moment for a whole bunch of other stuff, including the move to force faith-based schools to sign up to anti-discrimination legislation on the pain of funding losses.

And, more pointedly, a precipitous issue for those many non-Christian parents who have scraped together the money to send their children to a faith-based school in suburbs that are a wasteland of decent high schools. In other words be careful what you vote for. Or at least know what it will lead to.

My friend’s surprise dissipated and we didn’t talk of it again. Life, as it does, took over. The vote happened. Love won. What’s not to like?

Meanwhile school board members such as me, and executive teams of schools and lobby groups for faith-based organisations began paddling like mad, working overtime in Canberra and beyond, to try and plug the sinking boat of viable alternate ethical communities such as schools.

And, as was reported back to me, the hostility from many a parliamentarian towards faith-based education was palpable. Eye-rolls, snorts, and watching iPhones during the hearings whenever a Christian schools representative got up to speak. And these people are the leaders of our nation?

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The War On Christians Continues

March 15, 2016 / newlifenarrabri / Leave a comment

Some people say that claims of Christians being persecuted in the West are merely that our previously privileged position at the expense of other groups is being removed. The fact is that cultural “elites” are working hard to remove all traces of chrsitianity from the public spheres.

From IPA:

Religious freedom is under attack at Australian universities

by Matthew Lesh on March 15, 2016 in Education

The University of Sydney Union has threatened to deregister the Sydney University Evangelical Union over the requirement that members have faith in Jesus Christ.

The University of Sydney Union, a student-led multi-million dollar organisation responsible for the provision of services and management of the university’s clubs and societies program, considers the requirement that members of a Christian club be Christian as “discriminatory”.

Deregistration, in practice, would starve the Evangelical Union access to funding, orientation week stalls, and room bookings, making it very difficult for the society to function.

This move comes from the same University of Sydney Union which has spaces exclusively reserved for queer, female and international students.

Bible Society, which has previously reported on discrimination against Christians on campuses across Australia, reports on comments from Sydney University Evangelical Union president George Bishop:

The Executive believes that it is necessary, to maintain our identity as a Christian group, to maintain a faith-based declaration as part of the membership process

The Executive believes that individuals who wish to join any society need to be able to ascribe to the core beliefs, objects and aims of the society – which for a Christian society necessarily include faith in the Lord, Jesus Christ.

The University of Sydney Union, which all students fund through a compulsory levy, the Student Services and Amenities Fee, is suppose to equally represent all students. However, it appears some students are more equal than others.

Well Done Jacqui Lambie and the Rest of the Feral Senate.

March 20, 2015 / newlifenarrabri / Leave a comment

The wanton hypocrisy of the Senate at the moment is unprecedented. If Abbott wants it we will oppose it is the mantra of Labor and Greens. The cross-benchers are just as bad with Jacqui Lambie the worst of them. She vowed to get out of her hospital bed to vote against University reforms, and now Tasmania, the state she claims to be fighting for, is leading the way in cutting back their university places.

Politics in Australia is just disgusting.

UTAS campuses in Launceston and Burnie under threat if funding falls short

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PHOTO: Professor Peter Rathjen said university managers would need to make some tough decisions.(University or Tasmania)

The University of Tasmania has signalled it will consider closing its Burnie and Launceston campuses if it does not receive financial support for a restructure.

It followed the Senate’s rejection of higher education legislation allowing universities to set their own fees.

UTAS’s $450 million proposal to split the university in two, with big developments in Burnie and Launceston, hinges on the passage of the legislation.

Vice-chancellor Peter Rathjen told ABC Local Radio that managers would now have to make some tough decisions unless there was more funding.