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Babette's Feast behind a steel mesh fence

By Babette Francis - posted Monday, 15 September 2014


Within 48 hours my committee phoned the 400 who had registered, and most came to the new venue even though Hallam is an outer suburb distant from the other advertised venues. The local police provided excellent protection so all registrants got in safely and all but one of the 50 ferals were kept out. One feral stripped down to her waist and painted her nipples bright blue. This was the most intellectual argument of the day on the feral side of the fence, but I failed to get the point, although it seemed more logical than the atheist who emailed that he thought I would go to hell.

Teresa Martin, President of Cherish Life, Queensland, chaired the Event as I could not chair it as well as deal with media and police, Dr. David van Gend, a busy GP and Queensland Secretary of the World Federation of Doctors Who Respect Human Life, drove from Toowoomba to Brisbane airport late on Friday night to catch the last flight to Melbourne so he could chair Dr. Lanfranchi's segment and give the talk on euthanasia. On the abortion-breast cancer issue he emphasised this should be a scientific issue, free of abortion politics.

Rev. Mark Durie, vicar of St. Mary's Anglican church in Caulfield, author and theologian, a Shillman-Ginsburg Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum, and Adjunct Research Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Islam and Other Faiths at Melbourne School of Theology, referred to Bettina Arndt's article in The Australian in which she had documented how children living with their biological married parents do better on education. health and societal outcomes, and queried why quoting such studies enraged so many. He referred to the threats to freedom of speech highlighted by our difficulty in getting a venue.

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Danny Nalliah sat inside the fence with a megaphone and assured the ferals that "Jesus loves you and I love all of you too". This what our Catholic prelates should have done and I am guessing Cardinal Burke might have done so had Fr.

Tattersall allowed me to speak to him, because in Rome Cardinal Burke courageously took part in the Manif pour tous-Italia demonstration on behalf of the natural family.

The media left as Dr. Lanfranchi started speaking, and reported that she talked about experiments on rats......

However, Rev. Fred Nile, Christian Democratic Party, the only MP to honour his speaking engagement, heard Dr Lanfranchi and has raised the matter in the NSW Parliament requesting research on the issue.

Our Event was multi-ethnic and ecumenical. One lady emailed to say she loved being escorted by the police through the yelling ferals and had not had such an exciting day for years. I told her I had to defend the right to free speech even though I might have had to pitch a marquee on my back lawn. It would not have been big enough for 400 people, but it is big enough for me to build a mini Ark. You know, just in case Danny Nalliah or the global warming devotees are right after all.....

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Babette Francis, (BSc.Hons), mother of eight, is the National & Overseas Co-ordinator of Endeavour Forum Inc. an NGO with special consultative status with the Economic & Social Council of the UN. Mrs. Francis is the Australian representative of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer - www.abortionbreastcancer.com. She lived in India during the Partition of the sub-continent into India and Pakistan, a historical event that she believes was caused by the unwillingness of the Muslim leaders of that era to live in a secular democracy.

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