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June 12, 2010
I've stopped regarding The Australian as an authoritative voice on national issues and have come to regard it as the partisan voice of Australian conservatives with bile in their hearts, especially when it comes to the Australian Greens. Their rising electoral support, and the central role the Greens will probably play in the years ahead, must be causing Australian conservatives some anxious moments. So we can expect attacks on the "ideological dogma" of the Green to be launched from the pages of The Australian.
Some will come from the conservative women columnists, such as Miranda Devine, Janet Albrechtsen and Angela Shanahan. Shanahan is a Catholic moral conservative who voices the views of family-oriented women, supports the traditional family unit in opposition to the rampant individualism of civil society; natural law; the right to life of the unborn and sees feminism as an enemy.
In her Christians must boost immunity to Greens virus Shanahan fears that progressive Christians---the left-leaning Christian humanitarian brigade---could be:
infected by the Greens virus...for this group it is not the environment so much as the ostentatiously humanitarian credentials of the Greens that draw them away from the main parties. But the Greens are neither harmless nor a ginger group...They are notable for their impracticality: an odd mixture of do-goodism, libertarianism and almost totalitarian control on issues such as energy consumption. The Greens would be quite at home in Havana.
The reason? Why Peter Singer is their "inhouse philosopher" and in his writings he puts humans and animals on the same moral level, embraces animal liberation, supports abortion to term and euthanasia and even gives qualified support for infanticide. For Shanahan that is well down the road to eugenics. Remember the Nazis?
Singer's utilitarian arguments for this position? These are of no concern to Shanahan. It's just enough that The Greens adopt some of them (abortion and right-to-die legislation) and are are consistently anti-freedom of religion, are vehemently opposed to religious schools.They are unChristian. So don't vote Green. That's all that needs to be said.
Humanitarianism (of the utilitarian variety) is a problem for Shanahan because it separate politics from religion. In her Godless politics has gone too far for democracy in The Australian she says:
It always amuses me how little the opponents of religion understand the complex philosophical foundations of Western democracy and the debt they owe to religious philosophy in our understanding of the human being.Nor will they even concede that men and women of religious bent took on most of the great human rights battles of the past, such as the abolition of slavery and even the foundation of modern labour movements.Today, nowhere is this denial more evident than in the battle over human life, human rights and freedom of conscience.
Well that does away with the Enlightenment doesn't it.
The Greens stand for godless politics.
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You know....I ALWAYS get the shits whenever I see "do-gooder" used as a derogatory term. I immediately stop paying attention to anything else the speakers says...