THE WORST OF FRED NILE

By James Branson

A friend sent me this ridiculous interview with US-based religious nut Pat Robertson.

Robertson is exactly the kind of guy you’re thinking of when you ponder the crazy side of America’s ultra-conservative religious right wing. In the video, Robertson says – out loud, to millions of people who actually think he has something decent to contribute – that putting ultrasound images of your unborn child on Facebook equates to openly exposing the poor kid to witches and curses.

You’d think here that in Australia that we’re a sensible enough nation to be above this kind of garbage. But no, we have our own little hard-core of right wing fundamentalists who say absolutely mental shit. The leader of the pack is Fred Nile. WHO ALSO HAPPENS TO BE AN ELECTED MEMBER OF THE NSW PARLIAMENT.

Nile doesn’t take kindly to us queers (saying homosexuals had “a mental disorder ” and calling their lifestyles “immoral, unnatural and abnormal”), left-wing politics (he described the Green Party as the “watermelon party – green on the outside but red on the inside, with a bit of a pink tinge.”) and got into a huge a mount of trouble last year after saying that the “the only man inside the Lindt Cafe siege at Martin Place was the man holding the gun”.

Nile is Australia’s foremost religious crackpot, so we thought we’d celebrate with a roundup of his most heinous moments:

Back in ’89, Fred was doing his best to stop the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras

“God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.”

Fred vs Stryper

Nile has a crack at christian glam-rock band Stryper for taking kids away from the church.

HE TRIED TO BAN TOPLESS BATHING.

Srsly wtf Fred?

He walked around Lakemba trying to drum up support for banning the burqa…

Probably not your demographic, Reverend.

He watched a tonne of porn on his work computer.

Fred claimed his staff was watching it for “important research”.

What a guy