Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Brown v Cameron: the moral issues

Click on th link for Telegraph on Gordon's morality. But Christian Insitute scores them like this
Brown, J Gordon (Labour) Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service
Voting Record

Abstained or was absent on the vote for "mainly Christian" Religious Education throughout England and Wales in 1988
Voted against Section 28
Voted against banning experiments on human embryos in 1990
Voted for reducing the abortion limit to 24 weeks in 1990
Voted against making doctors specify the handicap when allowing abortion up to birth in 1990
Abstained or was absent on the vote for a public register of pro-life doctors in 1990
Abstained or was absent on the votes for an incitement to religious hatred offence in 2001
Abstained or was absent on the vote for 'no-fault' divorce
Abstained or was absent on the votes for an 18 month or for a 2 year waiting period prior to divorce
Voted for removing the ban on homosexuals joining the armed forces
Voted for reducing the homosexual age of consent to 16
Abstained or was absent on the vote for allowing greater freedom for religious broadcasting
Abstained or was absent on the vote for research using human cloning in 2000
Abstained or was absent on the votes for preventing euthanasia
Abstained or was absent on the votes for the Second and Third Readings of the Civil Partnership Bill
Abstained or was absent on the vote for extending the Civil Partnership Bill to cover siblings
Abstained or was absent on the votes for restricting the parental right to smack
Abstained or was absent on the votes for allowing unmarried and homosexual couples to adopt children
Abstained or was absent on the votes for the Second and Third Readings of the Gambling Bill
Abstained or was absent on the votes for the Second and Third Readings of the Gender Recognition Bill
Abstained or was absent on the vote for including protection for churches and religious organisations in the Gender Recognition Bill
Abstained or was absent on the vote for reclassifying cannabis
Voted for the Second Reading of the Religious Hatred Bill on 21 June 2005
Abstained or was absent on the vote for the the 'Lester Amendment' which deletes the incitement to religious hatred offence and instead modifies existing law on racial hatred
Abstained or was absent on the vote for Third Reading of the Religious Hatred Bill on 11 July 2005
Voted against the Lords amendments to the Religious Hatred Bill on 31 January 2006
Abstained or was absent on the vote for keeping the presumption that religious charities provide public benefit
Abstained or was absent on the vote for increasing the number of regional casinos from 1 to 8
Abstained or was absent on the vote for requiring practitioners providing contraception or abortion to a child under the age of 16 to inform his or her parent or guardian
Voted for the Sexual Orientation Regulations which restrict religious liberty
Abstained or was absent on the vote for the Termination of Pregnancy (Counselling and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007
Voted against reducing the abortion limit from 24 weeks in 2008
Voted against a ban on creating saviour siblings in 2008
Voted against a ban on creating animal-human hybrid embryos in 2008
Voted against keeping the requirement to consider a child's need for a father before fertility treatment in 2008
Voted against providing information and offering counselling to women considering abortion for foetal abnormality in 2008
Abstained or was absent on the votes for abolishing the blasphemy laws in England and Wales
Abstained or was absent on the votes for a free speech amendment to the 'homophobic hatred' offence

That is 14 bad votes, no good ones and 24 not voted on.

Cameron, David (Conservative) Witney Leader of Her Majesty's Official Opposition & Leader of the Conservative Party
Voting Record

Abstained or was absent on the votes for Section 28
Voted against an incitement to religious hatred offence in 2001
Voted for the Civil Partnership Bill
Abstained or was absent on the vote for extending the Civil Partnership Bill to cover siblings
Voted against restricting the parental right to smack
Voted against allowing unmarried and homosexual couples to adopt children
Voted against the Gambling Bill
Abstained or was absent on the votes for the Second and Third Readings of the Gender Recognition Bill
Abstained or was absent on the vote for including protection for churches and religious organisations in the Gender Recognition Bill
Abstained or was absent on the vote for reclassifying cannabis
Voted against the Second Reading of the Religious Hatred Bill on 21 June 2005
Voted for the 'Lester Amendment' which deletes the incitement to religious hatred offence and instead modifies existing law on racial hatred
Voted against the Third Reading of the Religious Hatred Bill on 11 July 2005
Voted for the Lords amendments to the Religious Hatred Bill on 31 January 2006
Abstained or was absent on the vote for keeping the presumption that religious charities provide public benefit
Abstained or was absent on the vote for increasing the number of regional casinos from 1 to 8
Abstained or was absent on the vote for requiring practitioners providing contraception or abortion to a child under the age of 16 to inform his or her parent or guardian
Voted for the Sexual Orientation Regulations which restrict religious liberty
Abstained or was absent on the vote for the Termination of Pregnancy (Counselling and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007
Voted for reducing the abortion limit to 20 weeks in 2008
Abstained or was absent on the vote for a ban on creating saviour siblings in 2008
Voted against a ban on creating animal-human hybrid embryos in 2008
Voted for keeping the requirement to consider a child's need for a father before fertility treatment in 2008
Abstained or was absent on the vote for providing information and offering counselling to women considering abortion for foetal abnormality in 2008
Voted for abolishing the blasphemy laws in England and Wales
Abstained or was absent on the votes for a free speech amendment to the 'homophobic hatred' offence

4 bad votes, 9 good and 13 not voted.

So Nutory beats the morality of Son of the Manse whose one moral hit was scrapping the super casino/

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