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Sydney Star Observer issue 1070
36 pages
Published by
Tomas Nemecek
Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper Est.
1979 www.
starobserver.
com.
au Issue 1070 Thursday 28 April 2011
Wallace
slammed
by clergy
Prominent Christians have criticised
Australian Christian Lobby head Jim
Wallace over...
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Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper Est.
1979 www.
starobserver.
com.
au Issue 1070 Thursday 28 April 2011
Wallace
slammed
by clergy
Prominent Christians have criticised
Australian Christian Lobby head Jim
Wallace over comments he made on
Twitter on Anzac Day.
“Just hope that as we remember
servicemen and women today we
remembertheAustraliatheyfoughtfor
— wasn’t gay marriage and Islamic!”
Wallace tweeted.
After a barrage of criticism, Wallace
later apologised for the timing of
the comments but not their content,
tweeting, “Ok you are right my
apologies this was the wrong context
to raise these issues.
ANZACs mean to
[sic] much to me to demean this day,
not intended”.
At least two prominent Christians
turned to Twitter to express their
displeasure at Wallace’s comments.
“It’s so sad that people who should
know better have to use ANZAC DAY
to pick on people they don’t like.
It’s
unchristian in the extreme,” Uniting
Church minister Reverend Bill Crews
tweeted.
Crews is t
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