One of Australia’s largest Christian denominations, the Uniting Church, has amended its teaching to permit same-sex ‘marriages’.

In fact, in an alarming indication that even churches are no longer free of radical gender ideology, it refers to them as “same-gender marriages”.

As we reported earlier in 2018, the government of Washington State in the US was proposing to radically redefine its recognition of parenthood by liberalising artificial reproductive technology (ART) laws and introducing commercial surrogacy.

Sadly, the bill that passed the Washington State Legislature in March goes much further than simply redefining parenthood.

The Australian Family Coalition's print magazine, Insight, talked to children’s rights advocate Katy Faust about the implications of the new legislation.

In this week’s update: a UK doctor loses his job for believing gender is determined at birth, new Queensland LNP senator Amanda Stoker predicts “terrible consequences” if euthanasia becomes law as senators receive thousands of emails, and more.

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In this week’s update: our campaign to stop open slather prostitution in SA, the “Safe Schools” program officially scrapped in SA, and Ireland’s gay PM targets Catholic doctors.

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In this week’s update: the NSW Parliament passes exclusion-zone legislation around abortion clinics, ACT legislates over the confessional, and the US Supreme Court upholds religious freedom for a Colorado baker.

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The NSW upper house recently passed a bill banning pro-life speech within 150 metres of abortion clinics.

Concerningly, this bill could be debated in the lower house as soon as tomorrow and could even come to a vote this week!

In this week’s update: some fantastic AFC news to share, Ghana rejects same-sex “marriage”, the NSW upper house passes an anti-pro-life bill and Ireland abandons its pro-life protections.

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The ‘Expert Panel’ on religious freedom has now handed its much-anticipated report to the Federal Government.

And although the panel’s recommendations are being kept under wraps for now, the initial response from senior Cabinet members has been quite encouraging – and reflect the spirit of our Declaration of Religious Freedom.

Today is the day we have been waiting for.

Later today, the ‘Expert Panel’ on religious freedom will present its much-anticipated report to the Federal Government.

What the Ruddock-led panel will recommend in its report remains to be seen, as does the Government’s response.

In this week’s update: John Howard tells the Government to respect parental rights, the attacks on Israel Folau continue and Santa Sabina Girls’ School back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

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