Sour Words

Just browsed into this interesting item from the Curio-Mail. I may take the time to have a better go at it. I may not.

Intolerance put first
by Terry Sweetman

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"...the Family First Party, a righteous bunch whose robes of tolerance are slowly being stripped away to reveal some of them as little more than small-minded bigots. "

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"...these high-minded standover tactics... "

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"... a bunch of fundamentalist happy clappers. "

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HERE'S THE PUNCHLINE:

"... in my family...we have learnt to cherish tolerance and diversity. "

AND THIS ONE WITHIN THE SAME SENTENCE:

"Family First has a right to express its beliefs and to lobby accordingly, but I worry that legislation might be judged on its narrow and unrepresentative framework of beliefs and value judgments. "

SOME MORE JUST TO FINISH OFF:

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"It seems that Family First is suffering the same sort of delusions of adequacy that afflicted One Nation in its heyday ..."

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AND NOW THE KING HIT:

"Family First is just another group pushing personal prejudices and sectional interests.

Its claims to special family or Christian credentials seem somewhat presumptuous, if not spurious."