Christopher Pearson: 'Real Christians are social conservatives'.

It's very interesting to note that some of the most strongly conservative, pro-market, anti-Left commentators/ politicians these days used to be trotskyites or had some involvement with the radical left in Australia.

What is wrong with the Australian Left? - It creates such monsters- such bitterly sectarian, legalistic and insensitive people !!

For example, Michael Costa used to be a trotskyist. So did Paddy McGuinness.

On the Leftwrites blog, there is an excellent dissection of Christopher Pearson's article on Kevin Rudd.

Pearson is a conservative cheerleader in The Australian. Yet he cut his political teeth campaigning for law reform on homosexuality in South Australia, before converting to Catholicism. Yet his style of catholicism is foreign to me, seeming deeply symptomatic of self-hate. His tirade against Kevin Rudd's Christianity ("Rudd needs to learn real Christians are social conservatives") is bizarre to say the least, considering Pearson identifies as Gay:

There are other important issues where Rudd so far hasn’t let his faith inform his values. In the same interview he told Doogue that: "On the question of homosexuality, I can’t find a single teaching of Jesus of Nazareth which rails against homosexuality." Any competent theologian – and most educated laymen – could have told him that 2000 years ago the Jews took a very dim view of homosexual acts and the fact that they deplored them went without saying.

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On the other hand, Tim Costello, director of World Vision Australia welcomes Rudd's moderate Christianity. Other Sydney Anglicans worth reading are Rachel's friend Byron, whose post on corporate growth as cancer is gold! Also, the review of the film The Queen (that I saw on Friday night) on the Sydney Anglican website is excellent.