I see that the WA National Party state conference recently voted to support legally recognised unions of same-sex couples. The party will be taking this policy to the next state election.

Young Nationals WA president Darren Moir said that the party was not made up of radicals: ‘It was the right thing to do.’ Moir noted that one of the party’s 84-year-old stalwarts had been all in favour of the motion, saying that ‘homosexuality was natural and people were born with it and we should get over it’.

One more sign that Christian right ‘uglies’ aren’t having it all their own way in the Liberal and National parties at the moment.

On the other hand, a well-known Federal Liberal politician recently spoke at Fred Nile’s Festival of Light (FOL) annual ‘lunch meeting’ in Sydney. The FOL is sure that this MP ‘is fast becoming one of the most profound political leaders in Australia commenting on the crisis of Australian and Western culture’.

The pollie:

… spoke about the decline of the Western world … as scores[!] of non-Westerners who do not identify with the Christian/European heritage are immigrating to the West.

And, yes:

… it is the West itself [that] is to blame. With its radical individualism, which has undermined the sanctity of the family and of life, Westerners are not reproducing themselves anywhere near the level needed to replace [themselves] into the distant future. Westerners are birth-controlling and aborting themselves to extinction. (FOL Bulletin, Aug. 2006, 1-2)

And who is this paragon of profundity? Danna Vale, Member for Hughes, come on down.

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