Fred Nile
Many citizens don’t agree with Fred Nile’s bold assessment of himself as a modern-day Socrates.
They argue that while the great Greek philosopher deployed reason against dogma, the Christian politician’s opposition to secular ethics classes in schools is demonstrating exactly the opposite.
In addition to calling Nile an intellectual bantamweight, critics are questioning the good Reverend’s framing of himself as suffering tyranny because of his faith.
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I’ve been dwelling a lot on parenting this week – not least because my eight-year-old son walked around with a badly broken arm for two days before I got him X-rayed.
In my defence, I was advised to delay the X-ray by nurses at a regional emergency department. But at the very least I could have refrained from suggesting he was the boy who cried wolf.
It was in this sort of mood that I heard the news about federal Finance Minister Penny Wong and her partner Sophie Allouache expecting a baby through IVF. The child’s father is known to the couple and will also be known to the child.
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David says:
@Aspirations I agree that the greatest harm caused to children of gay and lesbian parents is the persecution and ostracising caused by the homophobic pro family movement. Far greater than any intrinsic harm caused by the sexuality of their parents. Read more »
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David says:
@Peter, Atheism is not a religion. And the evidence suggest that the least religious states and countries, have the lowest crime, the lowest divorce rates, the lowest incidences of childhood pregnancies… I could go on and on. Read more »
Christian Democrat MLC Fred Nile addressed NSW Parliament yesterday, condemning the Adoption Amendment (Same-Sex Couples) Bill on the grounds it would threaten the fundamental rights of children.
“Is this really an ideological issue or homosexuals demanding yet another human right?” For Mr. Nile, the debate is easily reduced to either ideological issues or gay rights. But where do children fit into the equation?
We can talk about ‘the best interests of children’ and many in this debate claim to, but why are these claims often made in polemical rather than empirical terms. That is, maybe we should look to actual families rather than our ‘common sense’ fantasy of the ideal family.
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Lily says:
There has been a wealth of material around for decades that proves adotption harmful to both mother and child and yet it is wilfully ignored by those who demand a child http://gift-not-choice.tripod.com/index.html http://www.orignsnsw.com Read more »
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bec says:
Kids need parents who can punctuate correctly. I think idiot people who don’t know the rules of the one language they speak and write in have no place being role models to young people. Read more »
If I were ever going to rob a bank I would do so in character. Specifically, I’d go in wearing the giant green St George Dragon mascot suit.
Aside from the delicious irony of a bank being robbed by its own mascot, the stunt would serve as a timely reminder to Reverend Fred Nile- and others- that there are a range of uniforms, sporting apparel, masks and other coverings that conceal the face and the identity of the wearer.
Last week Nile from the Christian Democratic Party introduced a Bill in the NSW Upper House to make it an offence (maximum penalty $550) for “a person, without reasonable excuse to wear a face covering in a public place.” Note, that’s not just in banks or service stations, but in any public place.
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mini me says:
Were it not for their Muslims husbands, they would be wearing it. It only exists in the context of male ownership or “chaperones”. There’s no need to be scared of women’s liberation, the world really isn’t that scary. The won’t all up and leave you, oh…maybe that’s what they are… Read more »
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Mini says:
Does democracy give someone the freedom to be oppressed? There’s no doubt that hooding people is oppressive, whether they agree to it or not. Hooding people is an interrogation technique used to dehumanise someone. Just because someone has developed Stockholm syndrome about being hooded and apparently “wants” to be oppressed… Read more »
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