Thank "God" that we have nothing like the "religious" phenomenon in the USA as described by Chris Hedges in his truth-telling book American Fascism - The Christian Right & The War On America.
And by Frank Schaeffer in his various books and online essays.
Frank of course grew up in the belly of the right-wing fundamentalist beast and was actively involved in promoting their dreadful applied politics, until he woke up and realized how dreadful the right-wing beast was/is.

“Considering that they are political parties, this is not going to get them very far at all. For a start, most Australians don't even know these parties exist”.

What? Does this mean that the drongos who share the governing of Australia are ‘good at politics? I think not. The only reason that the Coalition and Labor share the government benches year, after year, after…is because the average Australian voter is a nicampoop, too lazy or too stupid to think about politics.

The only way to get good politicians is to stop preferential and compulsory voting.

The people who want to vote have certainly heard about “these parties”, and getting rid of the morons by not forcing them to vote when they clearly don’t want to, would see a vast improvement in our politicians. The only politicians in SA, a few months out from an election, saying anything worthwhile, are Family First members. And they don’t go around chuntering about religion.

With girly-man Abbott merely pretending to be conservative, there could be many more votes going to Family First in future, and it won’t be because of religion.

Not likely, but an insurrection, possibly? But particularly, if we hear from just one more pulpit pounding pedophile!
Rhrosty.

What a depressing article. These peanuts claim to speak on behalf of Christians? I, and most of the Christians I know, wouldn’t have a bar of this ultra social-conservative agenda. Trying to outflank Abbott to the right on asylum seekers. Preferencing Clive Palmer over the Greens. This does not seem compatible with the values I read in the Gospels.

What is truly scary is that these tiny parties that represent virtually no-one now feel entitled to a seat in the Senate, thanks to our absurd electoral system. So 2-5% of the vote is “enough to get a Senator elected”. Well, it shouldn’t be. And shame on Bernard for proposing the Machiavellian route to power through preference deals, not the democratic one entailing getting more votes than the other parties.

While Mr Gaynor has obviously put a lot of effort into this article, he's labouring under the delusion that he and the parties he mentions actually represent Australian Christians in some way!

The truth is that he and his ilk represent no-one but a fringe minority of rabidly right-wing nutbags.

Take, for example, Rise Up Danny Naliah's "prophetic dreams" of the 2008 Victorian bushfires (in which 173 people died) which he claims were a "consequence" of the decriminalisation of abortion in that state. Or his blaming the QLD floods on a speech once made by K. Rudd critical of Israel! Wholly despicable comments (not to mention plain bonkers) for a man who would hold a public office!

And why does Mr Gaynor assume that on the matter of climate change all Christians *must* be deniers like himself? Such hubris.

If Mr Gaynor wants to be elected by stealth, then rather than trying to arrange sneaky preference deals, I suggest he starts by deleting his personal blog and Twitter accounts, both of which provide a truly frightening window into a small mind wholly consumed with nothing but foaming, seething, palpable hatred.

Read them at your own peril!

http://bernardgaynor.com.au/

https://twitter.com/BernardGaynor

and yet Jimmy the Greens are happy to bang on about the evil 'polluters' that they benefit from and then everytime their is a fire or flood. Strangely enough they jump on their doctrines even after their high priest failed to predict. I suspect judgement is far more likely for murdering the unborn than for keeping pensioners cool in the summer and warm in the winter. I know which relgion is more extreme and it cetainly ain't Mr Gaynors.