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This is the official web site of the party http://www.familyfirst.org.au/ However, my concern is with people behind this party http://www.unbelief.org/fundies/ffp.html FFP] is deliberately not called a Christian party … We called it Family First so non-Christians who believe in family values will vote for us. But to be a member of the party you have to sign to say you oppose abortion, euthanasia, prostitution and so on so most of our members are Christians. (Andrew Evans as quoted in Helen Woodall 'No writing on the wall but …', 'New Life', 20 Nov., 2003) Christians have backed away from politics and guess who has moved into the vacuum - the gay crowd and the marijuana crowd. (ibid.) [Federal Chairman Peter Harris said that] to win our nation for Christ we need to do things differently because we are not fighting earthly powers but the fight is in the heavenly realm. (Helen Woodall 'Putting families first', 'New Life', 8 July 2004) [Andrew Evans MP recounted] some of his parliamentary victories - notably over a school textbook that stated that in the 8th century Christians thought being castrated was the highest spiritual value ... Andrew [stated] that it was not a Christian belief at all but the belief of a tiny little sect and that the book was written by a lesbian and was to be introduced in all SA schools ... until his party got hold of it and exposed several major fallacies in it and had it stopped. 'Anyone can do this. Mobilise your prayer warriors ...', added Andrew. (ibid.) When people try to say I am homophobic I tell them I am homagape [i.e. 'I have a non-carnal love of homosexuals']. Jesus tells us to love everyone but not necessarily what they do. Homosexuality is sin but so is lying. Jesus does not approve of either of them. That usually shuts people up. (Andrew Evans, as quoted in ibid.) [Regarding a state sex education program] If you look back in the old days when they didn't have much information, but just say 'Don't do it', you had far less problems than you've got now … I've over a thousand young people in our youth group … How many abortions do we have? None. How many children do we have born out of wedlock? Some, but very few … So I say they're barking up the wrong tree ... (Andrew Evans, 'Teen Sex', 'Insight' (SBS), 16 October 2003 [Regarding the film 'Baise-moi'] The deeper question that has to be asked is 'When do we acknowledge that large numbers of people who are continually watching, reading and viewing pornographic material, may actually act out that which they are feeding themselves with?' This is of far greater concern than individual rights. (FFP press release 'Baise-Moi …', 3 May 2002)