I was recently pointed to this blog entry by James Garth, which sums up my political views better than i've been able to manage for the past few years. When it comes to election time, i struggle to find anyone to whom i am ready to entrust my vote.
Politics
Right to life
One of the fundamental barriers to open discussion on abortion on our society today is that the issue has been made into one of women's rights. This is a fundamental error — abortion is no more about women's rights than the Nazi regime was about German's rights. Abortion is about murdering children.
War
Beliefs surveys for 2007 Election
Kudos to Festival of Light for their excellent survey in determining the values of candidates for the 2007 Federal Election. Please encourage the candidates in your local electorate to fill out the survey.
Looking for polling booth helpers!
Alan Lucas has announced that he will be standing for the seat of Bowman, Qld for the Family First Party in the 2007 federal election. I'm looking for people to help out at as many polling booths as possible in our electorate on election day. If you would like to help, please contact me. ...
A Christian perspective on David Hicks
Here's a very interesting piece by Gordon Moyes on why the USA and Australia do not see eye to eye on David Hicks.
Jesus and abortion
Even Jimmy Carter, the Democrats' idea of an Evangelical Christian, has allowed that "I don't believe that Christ would approve of abortions." (Though Carter added that Christ would approve of abortion if "the mother's life or health was seriously endangered or the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest" â or if Jesus really, really needed the feminists to vote for him.)
