Right to Life Association (Margaret Tighe), RTLA News, Nov. 2007, 1, re asking major party candidates about their views on abortion, voluntary euthanasia etc.:

Don’t allow them to avoid a proper response as to how they would vote [on these issues] if elected to Parliament. For example, some might say – ‘Oh, I’m a Christian’, or ‘I go to church’ or ‘I’d really need to look at the legislation first’.

[What a great idea, Margaret. Making MPs vote on laws they've never seen. It'd save so much time.]

‘Researchers find sexual orientation can change’, Family World News (Rev. Fred Nile), Nov. 2007, 11:

C. S. Lewis said that science produced by Christians would have to be ‘perfectly honest. Science twisted in the interests of apologetics would be sin and folly.’

[This would be one of C. S. Lewis's better ideas. What a pity that the Christian Right, especially the creationist contingent, have totally ignored it.]

Richard Eason, ‘The key issue of the coming federal election’, Salt Shakers Journal (SSJ), Nov. 2007, 4:

Hopelessness and cynicism are prevalent when humanism persuades people that life is an evolutionary accident, with no meaning except breeding for survival. The family is undermined by the humanist view that it is just an evolutionary survival mechanism, rather than a haven of sacrificial love.

[I wonder if just reading this sheer nonsense constitutes a risk factor for clinical depression.]

‘News and Action’, SSJ, Nov. 2007, 7:

Heinz Advertisement … This ad is shown in prime time and features transsexuality to sell baked beans. Action: Please write to Heinz. Ask them not to use transsexualism to sell baked beans, especially since children often eat baked beans and are watching at the times the ad is shown.

[Well, first I'd have to know what the transsexuals were doing with the baked beans.]

[Alternative punchline: I've heard of 'Dutch oven', but this is ridiculous.]

Roger Marks, Drouin Vic., letter in Sunday Herald Sun, 21 Oct. 2007, as quoted in SSJ, Nov. 2007, 10:

‘Gays buy twins’ says it all. A new handbag to add to their collection, albeit an expensive one at $133,000. More than 3000 pieces of research show that children are best served with a married mother and father.

[Oh, Roger, only 3,000 pieces of research? Most of your Christian Right colleagues say (well, I mean 'invent') 10,000! You really must catch up on your reading.]

Augusto Zimmermann, ‘Democracy and Basic Human Rights: Two Christian Inventions’, SSJ, Nov. 2007, 12:

The notion that law and basic human rights are inseparable derives from the biblical description that God has expressly revealed his ‘higher law’, and that, accordingly, this higher law must be placed above the law of the state.

[If you're unsure of the nature and extent of this 'higher law' that outranks mere statute and common law, don't worry. I'm sure Augusto will be only too pleased to explain it to you.]

More Augusto, ibid., 13:

Our present conception of democracy certainly did not exist prior to the advent of Christianity.

[Nor did it exist prior to the advent of the Enlightenment. Why are you frowning, Augusto? Didn't they teach the Enlightenment at your alma mater, the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro?]

 

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