Great to see that
Pamela Bone, is still making courageous calls, despite serious illness, this time about religion in general and Kevin Rudd's religious views in particular (for overseas readers, Kevin Rudd is the new federal leader of the Australian Labour Party, the "opposition" to PM Howard):
That is why Labor leader Kevin Rudd's comments about the need for
religious thinking to be brought into political decision-making should
be viewed with dismay. Rudd is, of course, entitled to his beliefs, but
it would have been more responsible, when asked about his religion, to
insist that it is a private matter. Even John Howard does not wear his
religion on his sleeve the way Rudd does. Howard is religious only in
the way most conservatives are religious.
Rudd is popular now - a pretty, clever drover's dog would be popular
right now - but in the longer term he is at risk of alienating
progressives. He has already given us a hint of the direction of his
beliefs in his opposition to therapeutic cloning for stem cell
research, apparently counting the rights of three-day-old human embryos
more important than the rights of children with cancer. The majority of
Australians support therapeutic cloning.
- Let's have faith in society and keep God out of it
Her book about cancer and war,
Bad Hair Days, will be published this year.
I'm just kicking off a Kevin Rudd thread here. Perhaps, others will want to comment in more detail about either Rudd's policies or the Pamela Bone commentary about religion.
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