Religion + Politics = ??? + Profit!

Seems the SDA is attempting to gain ground on the CFMEU as The Union Most Despised By Me*. A Labor Senator, Linda Kirk, supported therapeutic cloning and RU486 – and so the SDA withdrew support for her, and she’s expected to be punished by losing her spot on the Senate ticket.

The union covers shop assistants, fast food workers, etc – but for some reason campaigns for the ‘Catholic right’ (gays bad, foetus good). Mr Lefty tried to point this out as a flaw in Labor over at Larvatus Prodeo, and, as expected, got shot down for his pesky pro-Greens stance.

Another Labor MP, Tony Stewart, made a nice comment on the Pell’s threats on the therapeutic cloning bill – “Maybe I'll go to hell but if I go to hell I'm going to do so by saving a lot of lives, because that's what this bill is about.” (It’s OK, he’s catholic, so he can say that.)

Bob Brown jumped on board pointing out the illegality of coercing a member of parliament.

Democrat blogger Andrew Bartlett made a post about all this – noting how the mainstream media and blogosphere is covering it well.

But… what’s this? He links with the words ‘on a number of blogs’ to The Daily Flute, a news.com blog, Club Trobbo, and The Voice of Today’s Apathetic Youth! Sarah gets the parliamentarian nod – nice.

* Self-obsessed much? Unions actual concern in regards to my opinion may not exist. Actual tally of unions most despised by me may not be an actual tally.