Politics – Bruce Llama http://www.brucellama.com That's one crazy Llama Mon, 04 Jan 2016 02:22:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.4 Christians Have a Home! http://www.brucellama.com/2014/01/07/christians-have-a-home/ http://www.brucellama.com/2014/01/07/christians-have-a-home/#comments Tue, 07 Jan 2014 11:19:57 +0000 http://www.brucellama.com/?p=3491 [SOURCE]

It’s all happening for the Australian Christian Party this month.

They have a new office!  Woo hoo.

The gala opening attended by 3 people and a photographer was call “historic” and their new address is PO Box 258, Croydon Vic 3136.  Hang on, they have an office in a post box?  Maybe they’re worried and don’t want to tell you where their office is…I suggest you simply drive around Croydon with your window down singing “Onward Christian Soldiers” while tooting your horn until the Director and her two volunteers appear.

Meanwhile in other more exciting news, the Australian Christians are now registered in Tasmania!  It was a day of celebration as the party thanked Tasmanians for their support of christian values!  The party has now officially been registered by the Tasmanian Electoral Commission after the party achieved the critical number of members to do so. All 100 of them!  Wow, feel the love Tasmania – you’ve all gotten right behind the party to show real christian support.  Any day now they’ll be opening an office in Hobart.

Oh and check out the happy couple throwing their arms in the air, probably giving thanks as the bible quote at the bottom of their post says:

“Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.”

Either that or their waving to the other 98 who’ve just set off across Bass Strait to visit the Melbourne office.  If they can find it.  Alas, the happy couple are from a stock photo and their described as

Happy cheering couple enjoying sunset at beach with arms raised up in joyful elated happiness. Happiness concept with young joyous couple, Caucasian man and Asian woman.

Who knows, maybe they are praising cheeses.

A bag of baby jesus

A bag of baby jesus

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The Australian Christians lack respect for our institutions http://www.brucellama.com/2013/07/03/the-australian-christians-lack-respect-for-our-institutions/ http://www.brucellama.com/2013/07/03/the-australian-christians-lack-respect-for-our-institutions/#comments Wed, 03 Jul 2013 10:27:52 +0000 http://www.brucellama.com/?p=3410 [SOURCE]

Australian Christian Party has been bobbing around a bit hoping to win a few seats at the next election – I wrote about them here.  On their Facebook page they posted this comment, let me just pull this apart a bit for you:

When Ed Husic was sworn in to parliament the regular options to do so on a Bible or with an affirmation – representative of our Judeo-Christian and secular heritage

Well no, it’s not true.  The bible or the affirmation are a personal choice of the person taking the oath.  It is not representative of our heritage.  We really should just leave it there as already we know where  this lot is heading.

– were dismissed and the incorporation of the Quran

Nothing was dismissed.  There is nothing to say a quran can’t be used.  Husic could have sworn on a bible if he really wanted to.

was celebrated by our Governor-General as ‘a great day for multiculturalism’.

Well it is.  How terrific that a bunch of citizens have been able to elect a representative that they want.  Isn’t that the whole idea of democracy?

Those who were upset at this have been deemed ‘racist’.

Well yes, I’m not surprised. If you think about why you are upset it’s because your precious bible was replaced with another book from another culture that you hate. I can see how that view is arrived at but I guess ‘racist’ doesn’t really describe what’s going on here.

The Bible is engraved in our culture; in our parliamentary prayers, speeches and even on the floors of our parliament.

So is the Chinese culture that’s been here since  before federation  or the camels brought over with the first Afghans to explore the interior. They’ve been part of our culture too. Let’s not forget the indigenous culture that isn’t jewish, christian or islamic.  It’s been here for well over 40,000 years.  How crazy do you have to be to claim some special status.  Not so much crazy as… arrogant.

It is engraved on the headstones of our forebears and finds its way into our common language.

Common language?  You ever heard “the die has been cast” Greek from 49BC, or this old saying, “Respect yourself and others will respect you.”  Perhaps even some of our forebears have muttered Eureka! Another word from ancient Greece and all pre-christian.  You christians can’t lay claim to a common language any more than you can disrespect all the dead who have come from all nations on earth and are buried under their own headstone, graved in languages that have no judeo-christian origin. Just what planet are you living on?

Even the irreligious among us know the Golden Rule and what it means to bear our cross.

Is that the golden rule developed by Confucius from China, maybe the Babylonians or the Indians?  I hope you don’t think jesus thought it up all by himself. But I’ll give you the bearing of the cross thingy – you can have that.  It’s a horrible image of a man being tortured, dying, bleeding, broken, not the sort of thing you’d want to expose the kiddies to.

But for those who reject its core message, there is freedom to do so and our parliament doesn’t insist on respect of the Bible or its message for elected representatives; it accommodates difference with an option of affirmation.

And apparently the koran. Because as you rightly suggest, there is no insistence to use the bible.

That’s Australian culture and it has produced a freer, happier democracy than is evidenced in many other cultures. What it has produced, freedom of conscience, belief, association and equality before the law is why people come here.

That’s right, that’s why we have muslims. Freedom to be who you want.

With all the cultural sensitivity being promoted in Australia, have the people’s elected representatives ever considered that a little sensitivity towards Australian culture may be warranted?

Of course, you may notice that Husic has been sent to the parliament by this wonderful quaint little thing we call an election. He did it of his own free will. Remind me again about a little sensitivity towards our Australian culture.

While the Bible or affirmation have been used as validation for commitment to the rule of law and serving Australians, the Quran is the source of Islamic sharia law;

Koran_cover_calligraphyThe bible that you so proudly hold up is a very vile book. You know it even calls for the stoning of adulterers, homosexuals and sheep buggerers.  It may have escaped your notice, but in Australia we don’t actually stone people, even though its written in your precious book, and look we don’t allow muslims to stone people either.  Go figure.

something that has produced very different outcomes in societies plagued by human rights abuse and totalitarianism.

Oh right, like the christians in Africa wanting to kill the gays? Or those in Central America that oppose abortion and would sooner that their young people die from pregnancy complications.

Perhaps Australians who desire to see a commitment to freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law are not racist in their expectation that elected representatives uphold the options given in recognition of Australian culture.

This sort of suggests that somehow Husic doesn’t have a commitment to those key things of our democracy.  You seem to be suggesting that a fellow Australian, because that’s what Husic is, is somehow not worthy to hold the office that he has been duly appointed to.  This rather vague notion that he isn’t capable of that because he is of muslim background seems to be racist to me.  Not racist as in you hate black people, but racist in that you hate anyone from a different background.  Perhaps your more xenophobic, although that’s more hatred for strangers or foreigners and Husic is not either of those to his electorate.  So you tell me, what word would suit your rather narrow view of his abilities?  Redneck perhaps?

Or will we soon see people sworn in with the Kama Sutra, Tipitaka, Rig-Veda, or the Zend-Avesta?

And so what if they do? We ask that they take their oath of office and provide a way of swearing-in that oath. For some that’s to hold the bible, others it’s by affirmation or the koran, it should seem self-evident that you need to do that on something has a deep meaning to you.

If I had my way we wouldn’t use any of this fancy rubbish. The bible swearing didn’t make Howard a good PM, he still lied and it certainly didn’t stop Rudd from doing unto others as he had done unto him or turn the other cheek or some such rubbish. Oh, I know, any eye for an eye, a top job for a top job.

In fact the whole oath thing is a bit of a silly concept. It gets changed all the time depending on who’s in power. Kevin Rudd said in 2007 (that’s the first time)

I, Kevin Rudd, do swear that I will well and truly serve the Commonwealth of Australia, her land and her people in the office of Prime Minister. So help me God!

Then Julia came swanning in on her new found top job she said:

I, Julia Gillard, do solemnly and sincerely affirm and declare that I will well and truly serve the Commonwealth of Australia in the office of Prime Minister.

Then the really interesting bit is this observation:

There is … no constitutional or statutory prescription of the oath of allegiance to be taken by Ministers of the Crown, and its use for this purpose was governed by nothing more than custom and tradition.

You’ll find all this wonderful delightful information here on the Australian Parliament Website.

So while this Australian Christians are silly enough to think that the oath of office is important, the reality is that it’s not.  In just over 100 years of Federation it’s been changed and twisted and pulled this way and that.  It’s not written in the constitution and it’s not reflective of the judeo -christian heritage.

This is nothing more than an attempt to drive fear and loathing of a group of people into the hearts of Australians, trying to undermine the multi-cultural society in which we peacefully live.

Feel free to share this blog on their Facebook!  They’d love the feedback. Oh and be sure to read the comments if you have any doubts about the fundamentalist nature of these rednecks.

 

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Muehlenberg for LCS! http://www.brucellama.com/2013/06/26/muehlenberg-for-lcs/ http://www.brucellama.com/2013/06/26/muehlenberg-for-lcs/#comments Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:32:03 +0000 http://www.brucellama.com/?p=3385 [SOURCE]

A big day in Australian politics.  The PM thrown out by her own party and the former PM thrown in.  Really it’s enough to make your head spin.

Who should we turn to to work out what’s going on.  Oh, I know, Grandpa Billy.

There is really only one bit of commentary which is needed here: Has this nation ever seen a more inept, incompetent, dysfunctional, reckless, immoral, disunited, egotistical, contemptuous and brainless government? Utterly mind-boggling. What a circus!

Yes, Howard was pretty fucking horrible.

A choice between dumb and dumber. A choice between a pro-homosexual egomaniac and a pro-abortion socialist atheist. Delightful.

This is better than the homophobic “I don’t hate woman” alternative.

We don’t want any of these losers. A pox on both of them. They have caused enough damage and carnage already – no more!

Carnage?  How so?  Just the sort of rubbish you’d expect from a religious nutter.  Rudd and Gillard are both winners, they won their last elections in their own seats.  They both have a good solid following around the nation.  To say otherwise is to have your head buried so far up your own arse you can watch the sun rise through your own eyelids.  So much has been done in the last three years, in a hung parliament.  Have you been asleep?  Oh, that’s right, you just hate them because they are Labor, therefore evil.

Let’s be clear on what exactly has happened here. Rudd is elected; he is then assassinated by his own party; he engages in a destabilisation campaign resulting in a hung Parliament; he spends the next three years being a thorn in Julia’s and Labor’s side; and then gets back in! What a bizarre scenario.

Yes, I agree with that summary.  It is bizarre and shouldn’t ever have happened.  I will never again agree with Grandpa Billy.

This is simply a party of liars: Julia Gillard insists, “There will be no carbon tax…” Kevin Rudd insists, “I have no plans to challenge…” Shorten insists, “Julia has my full support…” How can anyone trust any of these clowns? They have so undermined their own credibility that they have simple become a very stale joke.

No it’s not.  They are not simply a party of liars.  No more than any other politician who does so for their survival.  We have come to expect it.  It’s how politics works.  Your sense of outrage is unfounded and unnecessary.   Under Howard we had broken promises, that is promises became either core or non-core.  In any other language that’s called a lie.

How many times do we have to endure all this? It is like a bad dream – worse than groundhog day. Does anyone seriously believe Kevin will make one bit of difference? He is still hated by so many in his own party and on the front bench that any talk of a newfound Labor unity is just a joke.

The Labor party seem to differ with you Grandpa – they put him back in.  It seems that he has the support of more people than you give him credit for.  Another silly billy assertion.

The electorate has had a gutful of the sheer idiocy of all this. They are fed up, and can’t wait till September 14.

Rubbish.  You don’t know the mind of the electorate.  Another silly billy assertion.  There are those who are cheering that Rudd is in and Gillard is gone.  The nation will actually be split on this.  To some what you consider idiocy makes a great deal of sense.  Start with the Labor party, it seems that a majority of them think this is sensible.

The truth is, it really did not matter who won the ballot tonight. Both these despicable characters have mortally wounded their own party. They will be slaughtered in just under two and a half months, and they both can take full credit for this.

I reckon they are ever so grateful to you Grandpa Billy.  You alone know what the truth is.  I can hear the glee in your voice and I suspect you probably did a little wee.

It will be a long time before Labor can recover from these last few years of chaos and disintegration. They should have learned their lessons at the last few state elections, especially the Queensland wipe-out. But political ideologues are notorious for blindness and self-deception.

You really are pathetic Billy.  At least half the population supports the political party that is elected.  The parties that are really blind and full of self-deception never get anywhere.  One Nation, Family First and Rise Up Australia.

Of course today we also heard from the two sham Independents, Oakeshott and Windsor who said they will not stand at the next election. Good riddance as well. Those two are directly responsible for this whole debacle, casting their voted with Labor even thought their own electorates expected them to side with the conservatives.

More silly assertions. The two ‘shams’ were elected as independents.  That’s neither Labor or Liberal.  Only they know the terms of their agreement with Abbott and Gillard.  They have done great things with a minority government for their local communities.  That seems to me to be what the local members should do.  They took the best deal.

Billy never gives an objective opinion.  His whole world is so starkly conservative, he has no time for any thing that is a bee’s dicks width away from the far-flung right.  I can see him jumping from leg to leg, stroking his beard and doing his best to not wee with excitement.

LCS = Liberal cocksucker.

Cock_Sucker

 

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Victorian By-election – Melbourne http://www.brucellama.com/2012/07/16/victorian-by-election-melbourne/ Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:51:24 +0000 http://www.brucellama.com/?p=2969 The voters in the Melbourne Seat of Melbourne go to the polls this weekend.  It’s really a battle between the Greens and Labor.  The Liberal party didn’t field a candidate.

There’s 16 candidates lining up for a crack at the seat.  Others standing include 10 independent candidates, 3 christian type parties and the Sex Party.   Guess which ones I want to focus on?

In particular there is Maria Bengtsson.  She’s standing for the Australian Christians.  The party itself has been in the news the last week or so because of their name.  Some of the christians are upset that they use the name Australian Christians because it gives the impression that they represent all Australian chrisitans.

I’ve blogged on this lot before.  They ran a candidate in the Niddrie by-election back in March 2012.  In that blog I said this:

The Australian Christians think they have a chance of being the third force in Australian politics.  I think the electorate will stay clear of anyone who claims to represent judeo-christian values.  They’ll flounder and make minimal impact and be added to the growing pile of defunct Australian political parties.

They’re clearly not so defunct just yet, but looking at the results of that poll back in March we see that they barely managed 6% of the vote getting just 1,588 of the 36,808 primary votes.1.  Considering that the Liberals didn’t run a candidate in that election either I’m not surprised that they got 6%.

AC’s candidate for the Melbourne by-election is also a Pastor with the Assembly of God, she is an assistant pastor at the City West AOG church.

Ps Maria and Oke have three beautiful children and two equally beautiful grandchildren.They love seeing families grow together in church; they’re extremely friendly and would love to meet you.

Bengtsson was interview on the ABC’s PM program and she has this to say:

Well I’m not racist but what we don’t like is another religious like Islamic people pushing their religion, their Halal food, their culture, their Sharia law.

We’re against this as a Christian living in a Christian country and I represent 60 per cent, over 60 per cent of Christians in Australia.

She’s not racist but?  She probably doesn’t mean racism, but we can let it slide.  Here’s a candidate running for government under the guise of religion telling us she doesn’t like religious people pushing their religion.  Last time I went into a supermarket I was still able to buy plenty of non-halal food and as far as I know Sharia law is not part of the Australian legal system.

And her reason is that she thinks she represent 60% of christians in Australia?  Pardon me while I chuckle.

Let’s see what other delights Pasta Bengtsson has for us on the Australian Christians website:

To date this year in Victoria, over 8,000 babies have been aborted, some of these at full term.

No, full term babies are said to be born, you can’t abort a born baby.  Abortion is not an issue in Victoria.  It’s really only the christians that keep harking on about it.

In some instances, given another day or so these full term babies would be able to exercise their own voice to plead for a fair go but in Victoria the womb does not provide this protection.

Apart from the fact that the baby can’t talk for a couple of years, and then another decade or so for them to comprehend abortion, the law if Victoria allows for abortion up to 24 weeks and then after 24 weeks you need the nod of two doctors.  Sounds like simply emotive talk from another rabid fuck knuckle to me.

And neither do vulnerable young women have the real freedom of choice to know the health risks or alternatives to abortion.

The alternative to abortion is birth.  To even suggest that young women don’t have freedom of choice is just wrong, again.  just simply emotive language to make an issue that’s just not there.

While premature babies are viable and survive from about 20 weeks, there is no requirement to provide medical assistance for babies who survive abortion.

You don’t survive abortion.  That’s the whole point.

The most vulnerable extend to our elderly, who we hear are too often being denied hydration, the basic provisions of food and water, and referred to hospices instead of hospitals when all they may require is life saving antibiotics.

We hear all to often that old people are denied water?   Where?  Who?  Sounds like you just made that up.  Sure some people don’t  get the right amount of food and that needs to be addressed, but our nursing homes are not full of starving and thirsty people.  As to the antibiotics comment…

Australian Christians is compelled to be a strong voice for these most vulnerable in our society. And we are compelled to protect the basic freedoms many Victorians agree are being eroded.

Many Victorians agree?  Perhaps in the City West AOG church out west they do.

We need to be on guard to ensure that our basic freedoms are not eroded, but I don’t reckon some whacked out christian wannabe is the best person to deliver it.

Pasta Bengtsson is a born again christian who is only interested in keeping out anyone who doesn’t love jesus.  She has no interest in representing anyone but christians.

She’ll be lucky to get 1,000 votes.

 

 

  1.  The Victorian Electoral Commission Website
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Chaplains are real! http://www.brucellama.com/2012/06/20/chaplains-are-real/ Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:13:35 +0000 http://www.brucellama.com/?p=2881 [SOURCE]

You can spin anything if you want.

The High Court of Australia today ruled that the National Chaplaincy Program1was unconstitutional2 The way it’s funded that is. The judges had no problems with the concept of the chaplains not being officers of the Commonwealth, so there is no religious test for them to undertake.  But make no mistake. The program is in breach of the Australian Constitution, therefore it’s unconstitutional.

The Australian Chruntian Lobby (remember, the hr in Chruntian is silent) are all excited and make this bold declaration:

Chaplaincy case decision welcomed

The Australian Christian Lobby welcomed the High Court decision that the Chaplaincy Programme is constitutional.

It’s great to see that in their headline they welcome the decision that the program is in breach of the constitution and should be stopped. I welcome that decision too, even if it means that they need to find a different funding model.  The next line is just bewildering.

Then I did tweet and got a response from my mate Thommo:

Poor old Thommo – he’s all excited!

So, nothing really changes.  Church types will continue to send their minions into schools under the vague notion that children wanting counselling from a minister are unable to make it too a church.

It’s a pity chaplains weren’t ruled as unconstitutional, if they had we may have been able to send them all to New Zealand or England.

 

  1.  I blogged about this before
  2.  You can read the judgement here.
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Hockey hates the poor! http://www.brucellama.com/2012/04/19/2748/ http://www.brucellama.com/2012/04/19/2748/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:20:50 +0000 http://www.brucellama.com/?p=2748 [SOURCE]

So, would be Treasurer blasts our entitlement attitude.  Too much social welfare!

Arsehole.

It seems pretty clear to me that this is another swipe at those less able to fend for themselves, find a job, get a start in life, help in their old age, those with a disability and many other ways that we as a society look after each other.

He said a lower level of entitlement meant countries were free to allow business and individuals to be successful. ”It reduces taxation, meaning individuals spend less of their time working for the state, and more of their time working for themselves and their family.”

That’s right, kick those needing help in the guts so those earning lots can work less and spend more time with their families.  Fuck everyone else.

Perhaps he should have said a more equitable taxation system that allowed all citizens to live good and productive lives is what we should be aiming form.  Taking care of each other is how societies grown

Do people rip the system off?  You bet.  Whether its attempting to get more money from a government benefit or attempting to reduce the amount of personal income tax some people will always attempt to subvert the system for their own gain.  They are dishonest and selfish.  We need to create a society that actually does care about each other.

Hockey needs to address the imbalance, while they can’t control how much huge corporations pay their executives, they can control how much tax they pay.  Lets talk about that tax reform, so that we can get a balanced budget.

It’s way to easy to kick the people on low incomes than it is to pick on the big earners.

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Christian Lobby Claims Queensland Victory http://www.brucellama.com/2012/03/25/christian-lobby-claims-queensland-victory/ Sun, 25 Mar 2012 01:18:57 +0000 http://www.brucellama.com/?p=2656 [SOURCE]

After a couple of decades of Labor rule in Queensland, the voters have tipped them, well more like ejected them, from office. The Liberal National Party have won and will now run the state of Queensland with absolute authority. (Queensland only has one house, so no checks on power as such)

I don’t think there was ever any doubt about the result.  The polling clearly indicated that the Labor party would be thrown out.

In the lead up to this state election, the Australian Christian Lobby, a small group of fundamentalist christians who pretend to represent all Australian christians, do what they normally do, they held Meet the Candidates Forums about the issues they think are important.  You know, religious indoctrination in schools, banning abortion, stopping the horrible homosexuals from getting married.

The then Premier Anna Bligh said no, she wouldn’t attend.  The ACL was livid.  The soon-to-be Premier did go along.

I’ve seen more people queue up for food at McDonald’s than attend one of the ACL’s events.  Clearly Bligh could see there was no need to attend, no votes, or at least, not enough votes in it.

That didn’t stop Wendy Francis1 the face arse of the ACL in Queensland and failed politician, from claiming victory that Bligh had lost because she didn’t attend one of their meetings!

Ms Bligh and the ALP leadership’s decision to disregard such a large constituency would have only compounded the loss.

Oh, Wendy is so moist.  She so much wants to sing “na, na, na na na.”

It was well known in the Christian constituency that most Labor MPs had voted to deny children the chance to at least begin life with a mother and father through controversial surrogacy laws allowing singles, two men or two women to acquire babies.

Is it? You sure about that?  They actually voted for a civil union scheme, nothing about denying children anything.  Surrogacy laws help create families.

It was also obvious that Labor’s high-profile championing of marriage-mimicking civil unions did not win it any votes, particularly as it was clearly rushed through as a political stunt to support gay activists campaigning at the ALP National Conference in December last.

You seem pretty certain.  When watching the leaders debate recently, neither issue was actually raised.  Perhaps it was clear to the ACL who were probably sitting around a table at the local McDonald’s sharing some fries.

The importance and swinging nature of the Christian vote, which would have almost completely abandoned Anna Bligh in this election is well documented

Well no, this is the ALP, if they even thought there was some votes in getting along to one of the ACL’s little chats with the christians, they would have done it.  You see, that’s the way it works.

The ALP minders would have said “Go!”

Bligh would have said “How many votes?”

Minders “Not many”

Bligh “Will it change the outcome?”

Minders “No”

Bligh “Fuck the christian lobby then”

I may have made the last line up.

The consequences of ignoring a major constituency in the community should be a lesson to politics as a whole

Major constituency?  That’s a laugh, by the ACL’s own admission:

Mrs Francis conducted 24 Meet Your Candidate Forums attended by 1500 people throughout the State during the election campaign.

So, a couple of things.  There are 90 electoral divisions in Queensland, the ACL only got to 24.  Queensland’s population is about 4.51 million, some 2.7 million are voters2.  Out of that pool of voters 1,500 attended an ACL candidates forum.  Which really is slightly more than the number of wombats having sex with rocks.

Perhaps the ACL could explain its relevance to the electorate, because, like the wombats dry humping an odd rock, they’re fucking useless.

 

 

  1. Photoshop image of Wendy here
  2. Queensland Electoral Commission website
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The Hate Truck of Madden http://www.brucellama.com/2012/03/18/the-hate-truck-of-madden/ http://www.brucellama.com/2012/03/18/the-hate-truck-of-madden/#comments Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:20:28 +0000 http://www.brucellama.com/?p=2653 [SOURCE]

It’s great to see the gay hate truck stopped in its tracks.

It seems a bunch of people in Lismore have applied some of their own messages to the truck,

Equal Rights = Gay Rights is now sprayed across the hate message of some right wing christians who where taking the truck north to Queensland.

Can’t say I’m upset at all.

I’ve blogged about this before too and be sure to check out Doug Pollard’s blog too.

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The Harm Christians Do in Queensland http://www.brucellama.com/2012/03/15/the-harm-christians-do-in-queensland/ Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:53:36 +0000 http://www.brucellama.com/?p=2625 [SOURCE]

On the radio, the announcer asked a young student at a local lutheran college in Toowoomba his thoughts on marriage equality.

“I am all for gay marriage and civil unions. I think there is nothing wrong with it,” he said.

However, the Australian Evangelical Lutheran Church couldn’t help themselves and just had to place an ad in the local paper that said this:

While the Evangelical Lutheran Church is not affiliated with Concordia College, it nevertheless emphatically states that on the basis of Holy Scripture, homosexuality is to be opposed, and warns that any who continue in this practice are in danger of losing salvation

This is your loving response?  You oppose gay people and then threaten them with eternal damnation and pretend that you’re only doing it because your holy scripture says so?  Imagine a young person, going to that church, unaware of his developing sexuality and hearing that.  What message does that plant in the mind of the child as he grows up?  What if they grow up and happen to be gay?

I blame the likes of Katter, Madden and something called The Sensible Man for this, read my blog on those crusaders of all things bigoted.  They are responsible for giving people like the evangelical lutheran church permission to say such things out loud.  It’s also their actions of late that gives people permission to spray the words “Gay nigger loving party” over the shop front of  MP Curtis Pitt in far north Queensland.

Queensland is fucked.

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