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1. God bless you, Graham!

   Posted By: Paul Keen

2. I can't see the point in a lot of this but the man is acting on his conscience so it doesn't really matter what I think.
   But I agree with him about acting according to his conscience because that is the mind and heart of the Spirit of Jesus living in him and guiding him.
   This man ranks among the very brave christians who have responded to God in a similar way throughout the ages.

   Posted By: B T Walters

3. If only the silent majority of Australians who, according to opinion polls, either say that they oppose all abortions, or say that they oppose the 90+% of Australian abortions which are done for social or financial reasons, had the courage of their convictions and joined 'sit-ins' at all our abortion clinics.
   That would be much more effective, as they couldn't put us all in gaol!

   Posted By: Sharon

4. Sharon: I don't know who is running those opinion polls of which you speak .
   The silent majority are silent indeed because the majority does not try to impose their personally-held beliefs on those who don't agree with them. Like all such polls, they are skewed by those who have an agenda that they wish to push.
   Mr Preston deserves to have had the book thrown at him because what he did amounted to harassment, pure and simple. He is blinded by his own sense of righteousness and he resembles those Pharisees castigated by Christ for their ostentatious public prayers or who brought to Christ the woman allegedly taken in adultery. He'd do better to go to his private room and pray for the women in question.
   He is not brave at all, but seeks a (non-fatal) martyr's crown. He deserves no brownie points and I hope a few months in the slammer with some truly desperate people opens his eyes and that he sheds enough tears to wash out the proverbial plank.

   Posted By: JR,Sydney

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