Quote# 67174
[in a news article about a proposed human rights charter]
Opposition legal affairs spokesman George Brandis warned if rights such as the right to found a family were enshrined in a charter, as recommended by the committee, this could allow the courts to shape laws on issues such as gay marriage and adoption.
Senator Brandis, who also met the church leaders to hear their concerns, said such issues should be resolved directly by parliament and not via the "elliptical way" of expanding court powers.
"The agenda of the human rights lobby in Australia is a secular agenda and that fact has been somewhat masked by the fact the chairman of the government's human rights consultation committee is himself a priest," Senator Brandis said.
"It's a Trojan horse for the secular leftist human rights agenda."
Senator George Brandis,
The Australian newspaper 14 Comments [11/3/2009 10:59:43 AM]
Fundie Index: 14
Submitted By: nichevo
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#1048936
Argle Bargle
"Oh noes, not the secular leftist human rights agenda! They will force us to marry gays and turn our churches into coffee shops!"
Fearmonger much?
11/3/2009 11:38:20 AM
#1048940
Clown
I don't get what is this guy's problem. I really don't.
11/3/2009 11:40:34 AM
#1048983
Zimmer
There is no place for human rights within religion!
11/3/2009 12:01:15 PM
#1049053
aaa
And?
11/3/2009 12:30:12 PM
#1049070
I would take him over a Scientology shill over any day.
11/3/2009 12:34:19 PM
#1049085
Headache
With a god like GAY, no wonder you hate human rights so much.
As Richard Dawkins said in the God Delusion:
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
11/3/2009 12:36:43 PM
#1049121
Oh man even in Australia they're crazy?
11/3/2009 12:45:26 PM
#1049176
Thejebusfire
Why do fundies think that everyone has an agenda?
11/3/2009 1:11:13 PM
#1049186
Old Viking
[i] ... masked by the fact the chairman of the government's human rights consultation committee is a priest."
"Is there nothing these secularists won't stoop to?"
11/3/2009 1:14:57 PM
#1049711
nintendofreakgcn
I'm not sure it really has anything to do with this, but:
"It's a Trojan horse for the secular leftist human rights agenda."
Jim Hacker: Are you saying that if I looked inside it, I'd find Trojans inside?
Bernard: Actually, Minister, if you looked inside a Trojan horse, you would find Greeks inside.
11/3/2009 4:59:31 PM
#1050212
Orion
Nah they ain't so bad here.
This is more to do with politicians here being too soft to institute a bill of rights because it's quite hard to do (lotsa laws gotta be changed to bring em up to code).
This guy is just a die hard right winger in the Liberal party. The kind that is killing the right wing here in Australia. He's appealing to his Christian constituents with this "oooooo seculars" scare tactics.
11/4/2009 3:49:04 AM
#1050612
GodotIsWaiting4U
This is retarded, but it's nice to know that America isn't the only country suffering under the fundie yoke.
11/4/2009 10:43:04 AM
#1050980
campbunny
They have SECULAR human rights now? *throws up arms and screams*
11/4/2009 9:48:10 PM
#1062192
Chatvert
I remain eternally boggled by why anyone would be against human rights.
But maybe it's because I'm a secular leftist...
11/24/2009 9:19:17 PM
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