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Sex Party Calls for Investigation of Brisbane Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast |
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Written by Robbie Swan
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010 21:44 |
The Australian Sex Party has called on the Queensland Premier Anna Bligh to formally investigate the relevance and nature of the institution known as the ‘Prayer Breakfast’, when held by an elected representative of the State.
This follows tomorrow’s Lord Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast in Brisbane where Councillor Campbell Newman has invited the head of the Australian Christian Lobby, Brigadier Jim Wallace, to deliver the keynote address.
‘Prayer Breakfasts’ were examined in the 2008 best selling history of right wing religious politics in the US – ‘The Family’, by Jeff Sharlet. They were identified as blatant recruitment meetings for extreme right wing politics where politicians and business leaders alike were evangelised and recruited to ‘the cause’.
Sex Party President, Fiona Patten, said that “The book shows that Prayer Breakfasts in the US were established by ‘The Family’ who preach a form of ‘biblical capitalism’ with political agendas way beyond traditional Republican/Democrat style politics” she said. “Prayer Breakfasts were exported to other countries like Australia with the aim of uniting right wing political institutions around the world and that these meetings added nothing to the spiritual growth of the nation”.
Ms Patten said that the state government had a responsibility to monitor these events and to report on how much the taxpayer was funding these religious fundamentalist gatherings.
“It is inappropriate for taxpayers to be funding or sponsoring these events in any way and the Sex Party calls on the Premier to table all funding and financial arrangements on tomorrow’s breakfast”.
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