Good Report, an evangelical periodical edited by Christian Democratic Party personality Janne Peterson, is the latest magazine to nail its theocratic colours to the mast. For a start, legitimate Members of Parliament must be conservative Christians:

… [T]he Bible makes it clear that Government ministers are supposed to be God’s ministers and not Satan’s ministers, like Adolf Hitler for example was. Nor atheists or sodomites, as some of the MPs who currently hold seats in Parliament are. Unless a candidate for Parliament is a just, God-fearing man [sic], he is not qualified to rule. His job is to govern according to God’s law and His commandments.

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Lots of cracks are now appearing in the reputedly monolithic Christian right facade. Already squabbling with the Australian Christian Lobby over gay and lesbian issues, Peter and Jenny Stokes’ ‘Salt Shakers’ group is now having a go at backsliding mega-churches, Baptists and sympathetic National Party Senator Barnaby Joyce.

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