THE Catholic Leader has recently carried some excellent stories on the recently passed Surrogacy bill introduced by the Queensland Labor government.
This dreadful piece of legislation is typical of some of the most obnoxious legislation which has emanated in the past 18 months from Labor governments in both Queensland and Victoria.
The Victorian abortion bill which permits abortion to full term with no counselling required and requires doctors opposing the procedure to refer the woman seeking an abortion to another doctor, was to have been replicated in Queensland shortly after the last state election.
The successful campaign conducted by a coalition of pro-life groups under the banner Voters for Life against the bills proposer Bonny Barry, the then member for Aspley, halted the push.
For how long one may ask?
All of this raises again the question as to whether or not Catholics or any Christian for that matter, can, assuming an informed conscience, vote for the Labor Party in the states of Victoria and Queensland where the libertarian left and members of Emily’s List hold sway.
In both these states the Labor party is demonstrably not just non-Christian but pro-actively anti-Christian.
The current attempt by the Victorian government to compel independent and religious schools employ staff with views diametrically opposed to Christian teaching is such an example.
The answer to my own question raised above is in my view, a definite no.
In saying this I am not unmindful of the handful of Labor MPs who stand up for Christian values.
However on the Surrogacy bill they numbered only two.
It would be almost laughable if it wasn’t so sad.
One of the great challenges facing Christianity today, as has been alluded to by Pope Benedict on numerous occasions, is the rise of a militant secularism which seeks to eradicate religion from all forms of public life and to marginalise Christianity generally.
It is a secularism well embedded at all levels of the Labor party.
GAVAN DUFFY
Sunnybank, Qld
