Andrw Bolt's POV

From the less than left-leaning Herald-Sun's Andrew Bolt:

PROFESSOR Ian Harper has had a brutal lesson in theology from journalists and union leaders: God votes Labor. The rest is blasphemy.Last week Harper, appointed by the Howard Government to head its new Fair Pay Commission, declared he'd be guided in setting minimum wages by his Christian faith.

"I believe in God and I believe that God's will is important to be done in the world," he told the Australian Christian Lobby.

"It means I hold very dear to the values of fairness, justice, honesty, integrity in the process that I'll use to be making a decision with my fellow commissioners."

Uh, oh. He'd instantly become a laughing stock.

Typical of the mockers was the Australian Workers Union's Queensland secretary -- and Labor power broker -- Bill Ludwig, who attacked the comments of the conservative Harper as "extraordinary".

They showed that Prime Minister John Howard was getting too close to the devout politics of US President George W. Bush, Ludwig claimed, adding: "I hate to think our PM is influenced by fundamentalism."

Strong stuff. But sad, that a man who says his faith preaches fairness, justice and honesty is dismissed as sinister. A fundamentalist.

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