"THE Greens' campaign to scrap the Lord's Prayer from parliament is so exquisitely boutique, bourgeois and anally introspective that it is hard not to believe it was deliberately conceived in an effort to make the party even more repellent to middle Australia than it already is.

Indeed, it is almost as though the Greens' Marketing Sub-Collective had stumbled across a hitherto undiscovered rock-dwelling hermit who didn't already regard them as a pack of inner city wnkrs and thus determined that they would have to ratchet up their brand messaging."

The Telegraph.

Is this the greens' way of differentiating themselves from the main parties and real issues? Is this the party for whom reality is too hard?

Or is it the media choosing to pick up on one issue and ignore the rest of the Greens’ policies?

This is just another SM anti-Green post. There is nothing new in the idea of separation of powers. It is an integral part of modern western democracies and the idea that religion and politics should be inter-linked is a scary one.

The Lord's Prayer is a private activity that politicians are free to cite at anytime at home or in Church. We can only hope it has some effect on their behaviour. So far it appears to have no effect whatsoever on the integrity of parliamentarians.

Ludwig
Have you ever read the Greens policies? If so which ones don't you like. I can never work out the vitriole towards the Greens. Think about where the negative press comes about the Greens and ask yourself why.

I have a love/hate relationship with the Greens; I love to hate them.

Well, not all of them, only the more reptilian ones, the snakes in the grass.

You can count me in the demographic that fails to understand why the Greens exist at all, much less fathom the logic of their people-hating policies.

What satisfaction can there be in promoting the idea that humans are a destructive embarrassment on the face of the earth, apart from generating a smug glow of pious self-righteousness?

I suspect that the membership of our Australian version of a Green party contains only a tiny percentage of people who have actually run a business more complex than an organic pumpkin market stall. This infects their thinking to the point where only slogans matter: genuine, implementable policies designed for the benefit of the population (ugh, those nasty, superfluous people) don't tend to get a look in.