[Osx-nutters] The separation of church and state.

[David Cake]

At 3:09 PM -0500 6/12/07, Charles Bennett wrote:
>I mean..   If a Mormon isn't a Christian  (according to the 
>evangelicals..)  then someone attending a ceremony run by the wiccans 
>and calling Santa a shaman, is a *bad man*  likely believes in Satan
>and drinks blood.

	I do so prefer Australian politics. One of our most popular 
Prime Ministers was a professed agnostic who had actually set a beer 
drinking record that was in the Guinness book of Records.
	He was a flagrant womaniser too, but US presidents do seem to 
have that covered historically, despite a recent outbreak of prudery.

	Actually, this week Australia has its first female acting 
Prime Minister ever, while the PM is in Bali talking climate change. 
Our current Cabinet also includes, in the one person, our first Asian 
born and our first openly gay Minister, and she is a relatively young 
woman too (for a senior politician). We've had other gay cabinet 
ministers, obviously, but the only out one I know of I think came out 
after leaving Cabinet. Its nice to feel as if we aren't run entirely 
by old conservative white men for a change.
	Cheers
		David