Can a Labor leopard change its spots?

(b) 'People must have dignity and choice at the end of life … not only in terms of where they wish to die, but when to die' (No. 42).

(c) 'Labor believes no faith, no religion, no set of beliefs should ever be used as an instrument of division or exclusion, and condemning anyone, discriminating against anyone, vilifying anyone is a violation of the values we all share' (No. 239).

This is where Labor went in her antagonism to religious freedom. Senator Penny Wong, leader of the Opposition in the Senate, in 2018 introduced a Private Senator's Bill to try to restrict power of 'religious schools to discriminate against same sex attracted students'.

(d) 'Labor is proud to have led the fight for marriage equality', thus making it 'a reality for LGBTIQ Australians on 9 December 2017. Labor welcomes and celebrates the achievement' (No. 240).

Is Labor whistling in the political wind if it promotes those four policies and yet expects religious people to become members and vote for them? Let's check out how religious values can be at odds with Labor's pushing a progressive and libertine agenda.

Religious values clash with ALP policies

(a) The Roman Catholic Church's position is: 'I confirm that the direct and voluntary killing of an innocent human being is always gravely immoral', Pope John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae, 1995. Here he referred to abortion, euthanasia and the destruction of human embryos in medical research. The Vatican opposes (a) in the Labor Platform.

Cherish Life Australia, The Australian Christian Lobby, Family Voice Australia, Sydney Diocese of the Anglican Church, and other Christian denominations oppose abortion and euthanasia.

Crows and flying foxes (bats) are protected but not unborn babies and the elderly.

(b) Whose right is it to murder any person from conception to the end of natural life?

For Bible-believing Christians, it is not a government's responsibility to murder unborn children, the aged, or the terminally ill.

You [Lord God] made all the delicate, inner parts of my body
and knit me together in my mother's womb.
Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous-how well I know it.
You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,
as I was woven together in the dark of the womb (Psalm 139:13-16).

A human being, made in God's image (Genesis 1:27; James 3:9) is one who is defined by pronouns such as 'my', 'me', and 'I', as references to a person in the womb – a person murdered in an abortion.