Teste-ing my patience, and I'm ovary it.

There are a few issues fundamentalist and extremist Christians seem to put a lot of emphasis on.

Gay/lesbian relationships. Any partners that have the same genitals should have less rights.
Abortion. They’re against unwanted cells being removed from the female genitals.
Pornography. Basically any film that shows genitals.

I’m noticing a theme… Genitals. Genitals are pretty neat, they provide enjoyment and procreation. Our species, as with others, requires them to avoid extinction. But somehow, they’re evil. Not entirely sure how or why that works, but it’s not the most irrational position of religious folk. It’s somewhere between compulsory facial hair and abstaining from certain foods on certain days.

We have plenty of laws to appease these people on the pornographic side – age restrictions, content restrictions, advertising restrictions, airing restrictions, heck, I can’t even fetch the newspaper while airing out Little Larry.

I know – strange at it may seem – there are folk out there that aren’t even impressed with the sight of my equipment. But somethings you have to learn the hard way.

Regardless, they’ve won. A moral victory in the war against whatever it is that access to pornography does. I’m sure they must have a Hairless Palm Appreciation Society or something. Those of us that meet the requirements, and are considered mature enough to access the material, can admire the beauty of God’s handiwork until the cow’s come home.

(Note to self: change that metaphor.)

But something sinister is afoot – “A NSW council will use money from a secretive religious sect (the Exclusive Brethren) to appeal against a court decision allowing a sex shop to go ahead, says an adult industry association.”

Of course, the Exclusive Brethren usually shoots for “it wasn’t us, it was just one of our members.. they acted as a concerned individual..” They use this excuse each and every time they’re accused of meddling. Even when the election ads are almost identical across different countries.

But it this case, the money was donated directly by the cult itself, without using a member as a proxy. Actually, I’m lying, it was donated by a “businessman”, the council had no idea he was even a member of EB.

Another sect member spontaneously meddling in the politics they deride – what an amazing coincidence. Mysterious ways indeed.