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According to the witness of the New Testament, drinking #wine or any kind of alcoholic beverage is a matter of liberty.

#Alcohol should never become a stumbling block among Christians.

#Christians have every right to #abstain from alcohol; such is not only acceptable but even honorable.

I voted #Green in #Brentwood's #LocalElection2024.

And #SpoiltMyVote in the #PCC #election
There was no-one on the ballot worth voting for and no other way to #abstain.

Jenna Ellis mocks conservative over threat to stop voting if Trump is nixed from ballots
https://www.rawstory.com/jenna-ellis-trump-2666834153/ #JennaEllis #lauraloomer #tRump #GOP #voters #abstain! #LoomerTunes

US vetos UN ceasefire resolution for Israel/Gaza – and UK abstains | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/12/09/us-vetos-un-ceasefire-resolution-for-israel-gaza-and-uk-abstains/

#United Nations #resolution #ceasefire #Gaza #United States #veto #UK #abstain #Israel #USAbabyKillers #UKbabyKillers

#VoiceToParliament #Abstain #TruthTreatyBeforeVoice

"I will not focus on my fears and concerns around what white moderates will do with a yes or what white conservatives will do with a no.

This isn’t about them, it’s about us.

When I think about what mob will do with either outcome I honestly feel much less stress about the long term impacts of either outcome because I believe in Blak power, Blak perseverance, Blak joy, and Blak love. I believe in Indigenous excellence.

As Meriki Onus wrote in her last piece for IndigenousX:

“The knowledge we hold of kinship, country and protocol has existed from the first sunrise, this knowledge of identity and country has been protected and maintained despite the ongoing genocide of our people, and will continue to survive until the last sunset.”

If there is a yes, I will fight for it to build a suitable and sustainable infrastructure to ensure that this body can be a truly representative decision making body. I will fight for it to establish itself in a way where it can have economic independence so even if a future government tries to legislate it into the dust or defund it into irrelevance it can still stand anyway, as a Voice in exile, still agitating and advocating the will of the people.

If there is a no win or if we end up with a Voice that does not adequately represent our interests, then I will fight for activists and advocates to push for greater heights of community building. The disillusionment in the lack of progress following the 1967 referendum spurred on an emerging generation of more radical Aboriginal activists in the 1970s to create the Tent Embassy, Black Theatre, the Aboriginal Medical Service, the Aboriginal Legal Service and many other Aboriginal led actions and initiatives.

So, regardless of the outcome of this referendum, I am on the side of Blakfullas.

I am on the side of anyone who believes in justice over charity, land rights over reconciliation, and Indigenous rights over Closing The Gap they put there in the first place..

Always was, always will be."

- Luke Pearson is a Gamilaroi man living in NSW. He is the founder and CEO of IndigenousX.

https://indigenousx.com.au/voice-debate-that-forgot-indigenous-rights/

one day
they will all be gone
and oh
the parties

careless
overlong rejoicing

until
your beggar's choice reveals
the same
stained

underwear

https://clover.serveblog.net/w0dz/oh-the-parties

#vss365 one #poetry #smallPoems
#partygate #abstain #wrdz

one word my lord
is that a stain
or an abstain
between your sullied cheeks
should we applaud
your citizens of rank
demeanour
or draw them through the streets
to lesser quarters
every well staffed bar
in easy reach

https://clover.serveblog.net/w0dz/citizens-of-rank

#vss365 one
#poetry #smallPoems #abstain
#wrdz

Cowardly Tory MPs may abstain from vote on Boris Johnson and Partygate | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/06/15/cowardly-tory-mps-may-abstain-from-vote-on-boris-johnson-and-partygate/

#Conservative #Tory #Tories #MP #abstain #Partygate #Inquiry #report #vote #approve #reject

Labour links up with the Tories to betray democracy and make UK a police state | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/06/13/labour-links-up-with-the-tories-to-betray-democracy-and-make-uk-a-police-state/

#AnyoneButLabour An even greater threat than the Tories

#Labour #abstain #fatal #motion #regret #ministerial #decree #Public #Order #Act #childcare #funding #AI #artificial #intelligence #regulation #NHS #National #Health #Service #facts

#Florida #Advocates plan for #battle as #RonDeSantis preps ‘#DontSayGay’ #expansion

#HB069, would also add additional #restrictions for #lessons about “#humansexuality” through #highschool and require that “all #school-aged #students” are taught #Chrisitian #beliefs to that requires people to #abstain from #sexualactivity outside of #marriage

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #Florida #Education #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Homophobia #Transphobia #Abstinence
https://www.wkrg.com/hill-politics/advocates-plan-for-battle-as-desantis-preps-dont-say-gay-expansion/

Geoff Cooper reacts to Romsey MP Caroline Nokes not voting | Hampshire Chronicle
#IllegalMigrationBill
#Nokes
#Abstain
#Tories
#Cooper
https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/23389313.geoff-cooper-reacts-romsey-mp-caroline-nokes-not-voting/

A special note to all the people who spoke so sternly to me about #AIDS and other "#STDs" in my teenhood, solemnly warning that "it only takes one time to get #sick" and that I should #abstain or at the least use #protection, and who are now walking around in public places without #masking up against #COVID19 and other potential pandemics: