From Reuters UK: Another example of Christians attempting to force their prudish ideological morality on others.
A group of conservative politicians is making headway towards a ban on topless bathing on some of Australia’s best known beaches.
Christian lawmaker and veteran morals campaigner Reverend Fred Nile has won backing from key politicians in New South Wales state, home to Sydney and its famed ocean beaches, to tighten existing laws covering nude sunbathing.
The move has provoked strong reaction from easy-going sun worshippers.
Penny Tweedie reports.
I particularly like that Reverend Fred Nile claims that a woman who sunbathes topless “demeans herself” and is “taking away her own self respect.”
Isn’t that something you should ask the woman sunbathing? How could he possibly know? Could it be, rather, that he himself somehow finds the issue titillating (pardon the pun) and is afraid it might awaken some inner urges that he feels are not proper given his “Christian” morals? And if so, could it be that he wants to impose restrictions in order to keep others from feeling the same amoral urges that he’s feeling in order to save their souls? It can’t be that he feels God’s creation is appalling, can it?
Politician Dave Clark also feels that children would be offended by seeing a woman’s breasts. He claims that there are people who want to be at the beach, but can’t because they’re concerned about their children “seeing it.” Amazingly, he said it with a straight face, too, which might indicate that he actually believes the nonsense he’s spewing. What child (who is not an evangelistically brainwashed fundamentalist Christian) would be offended by a woman’s breasts? “Taking offense” is a learned behavior.
The article says that topless sunbathing has been common on most beaches since the 1960’s and that nobody really complains about it. Perhaps the only ones complaining are the morally questionable Christians and politicians. Everyone else seems to be having a grand time getting a nice all-over tan.
Typical of the religious. They want to tell others what to do, AND ruin the view.
If I were a Christian, I hope I’d wake up one day and realise that I had more in common with my non-religious neighbours than all the imams and mullahs of the world – and then start wondering why all my opinions sounded like they were straight off Al-Jazeera.
Another example of “We don’t like it, so you shouldn’t do it!”. Hope they get told where to get off, but given the block on the atheist bus ads down there, we’ll have to wait and see.
TRF