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Hinch lifts the veil off 'God's' sermon

Posted by: Derryn Hinch | 26 March, 2010 - 2:01 PM

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You have to hand it to Gary Ablett Senior. 

He sure knows how to shirtfront the truth and history far better than anything he ever did on the football field. The man they used to call God has decided to be the Almighty's earthly spokesman in a bizarre, if well-meaning, religious tract over two full pages of the Herald Sun today.

The timing is strange. Coming right at the start of the footy season when most of the attention is on his 'will he or won't he?' son Gary Jr.

Ablett has decided to be the moral compass for a godless Australia. He says he is no scientist but dismisses the Theory of Evolution and atheists like Richard Dawkins in a couple of sentences.

He does admit he runs the risk of public ridicule, so here goes.

Ablett says people remember him for his on-field successes but also because of what he calls his 'off-field moments which were not so successful'.  And says that in life we each experience our ups and downs.

Hew talks about a serious decline in moral values and drug and alcohol abuse, family breakdowns and 'the devaluing of human life and dignity'.

He doesn't mention Alisha Horan. That poor, star-struck teenager who died of a drug overdose – administered by Ablett – in a hotel room. Not much dignity in the way she died. And when he did a runner he didn't place much value on her life.

About three years Ablett went down this Holy Roller route of self-justification. Also in the Herald Sun. He said he'd been 'disappointed and grieved at how self-righteous some people can be. Considering everyone has their own skeletons in the closet'.

Not many have one concerning the death of a teenager, a friend of your daughter's, an Ablett fan with your picture on her bedroom walls, whom you enticed on a drug-fuelled binge. Alisha Horan died in Ablett's hotel room.

The coroner said it was unfortunate that Ablett's drugged and drunken state made him unable to help Horan. And if he had helped her she might still be alive.

Seven years later he was asked if he had stopped taking illegal drugs. No. "In terms of my own use of illicit drugs I feel I'm pretty much on top of it. There has been the odd relapse here and there."

Go back to the time of Alisha Horan's death and the coroner's comments.

The 2007 article said 'he made a full open and honest statement to Police'. It doesn't say he fled the hotel and went into hiding.

Big deal that he eventually fessed up because, he said, of his relationship with God. Different story to the night when Alisha Horan died. And the days that followed.

While the young woman lay in a drug induced coma in hospital Ablett went into hiding. Police couldn't find him. A lawyer said the usual rubbish about how he couldn't wait for his day in court. Couldn't wait to put the real story out there.

Then when an inquest came along Ablett refused to testify on the grounds it could incriminate him.

But back to the hours after he woke up in a city hotel room with the comatose young fan on his bed.  

Did he tell the paramedics trying to save her that he had given the unconscious girl six ecstasy tablets? No. Did he tell them he had given her heroin and told her it was cocaine? No.

Did he go to the hospital and tell the doctors what they had been up to? No.

Did he visit her family or phone them and tell them what had happened to their daughter? No.

In fact, and I have this confirmed in some anguished letters from members of her family, that girl was a Jane Doe as they say. An unknown patient in the hospital. A comatose female known only by a number. Where's the dignity there?

And this man now wants to be our moral saviour?

Footnote: Later Gary Ablett Snr pleaded guilty to using and possessing ecstasy and heroin. He was fined $1500.


Blog comments Your Say

  • Jb & Tas Walker! Good to see the Creation Ministries "lying for God" brigade coming out of the woodwork brandishing their pet scientists in the hope of attaining some misplaced respectibility. Go onto youtube, type in abiogenesis and you will find quite a few very recent experiments that show not only how abiogenesis works but how it has now been fully achieved by simply replicating early earth conditions with no lightning or poison ponds (thermal vents actually). The incompleteness of the early Miller-Ulrey experiments are now ancient history, filled, and you no longer have a leg to stand on. The gaps science has left for your simplistic literal biblical interpretations are pretty much gone despite how inconvenient you might find that personally.

    Justin Thursday 1 April, 2010 - 2:59 PM

  • I thought Gary Ablets' article was excellent. He made good sense and his critique of evolution was right on. For a fuller treatment see: http://creation.com/the-greatest-hoax-on-earth

    Tas Walker Monday 29 March, 2010 - 2:28 PM

  • I am straight up - I have zero tolerance of religion, apart from Buddhism. Alisha Horan was a 20yo star struck kid who was totally manipulated & taken advantage of by Ablett. Religion has already lost round one in the US courts in relation to Evolution versus Creation. Even the Catholic church has finally accepted the overwhelming evidence of Evolution. The bottom line is that Ablett (Snr) provided & administered Alisha with the drugs, then abandoned her when she was desperately in need of life saving medical attention. He can prattle on about drug & alcohol abuse & the "decline of moral values & the devaluation of human life & dignity", but where was his 'god driven value system' when that kid had slipped into a life threatening state & was in the process of dying? Some of you two-faced, sick, demented, twisted bible bashers need to shove your little book fair & square up your ---~! Religion is a way of life, NOT something selectively practiced when it's convenient~! There was nothing 'dignified' about Alisha's demise. Ablett - P--- OFF~! Your adoring fans have well and truly seen the light~!

    Lenny Sunday 28 March, 2010 - 5:33 PM

  • It amazes me how willfully ignorant creationists try to blame all of the world's ills on a "belief" in evolution.

    I can only presume they think the world was some sort of peace-loving utopia before Darwin wrote down his thoughts just 151 years ago.

    Strange given that they also believe God has supposedly performed all manner of silly magic tricks in repeated efforts to rid the world of the evil he'd created.

    As for evolution being "only a theory", so is gravity. Should we remove that from the classroom too? And relativity and cell biology and atomic theory too? They're all "only theories". In fact, science is built on such theories so I guess he's calling for science itself to be dumped.

    AndyD Sunday 28 March, 2010 - 12:10 AM

  • A full spread on this, this 'mam' in the Herald-Sun please spare me. Give real people the forum not has beens.

    Francien Daniels-Webb Saturday 27 March, 2010 - 2:03 PM

  • Daniel, Joel and other athiests.
    It is good to have differing opinions, but these opinions you trash are formed by Phd scientists, experts in their field, who have had peer reviewed articles both in secular and Christian circles.
    I should also mention that many discoveries have been made in science over the centuries by Bible believing Christians, names like Boyle, Von Braun,Pasteur, lister, Kepler, Dalton, Fresnel,Kelvin and the Wright Bros come to mind.
    Are these people all idiots
    too?
    Are you more intelligent than these people?
    Or is it because in your bigoted, narrow minded hatred of God you will jump on anything that, in your mind, disproves His existence.

    Even though this 'evidence' cannot be proven by the scientific method.

    Millers hypothesis of abiogenesis was proven false, Haekels hypothesis of recapitulation is shown to be a lie through modern day electron scans, piltdown man is a hoax, the list is quite long.
    I guess in the end, it is your free will to believe whatever you want, but please don't try and intimidate me into believing those lies as well. I once was in your position and never want to go back.

    JB Saturday 27 March, 2010 - 11:36 AM

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