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Moral clarity and the threat of the NILC

Posted September 11, 2009 by Jacques Rousseau

Today’s edition of the Mail and Guardian carries a disturbing article about the growing influence of religious groups – in particular Ray McCauley’s National Interfaith Leadership Council – on South Africa’s Government. Ever since the unlikely figure of Jacob Zuma launched the Moral Regeneration Movement, thinking South Africans should have been concerned about how much influence organised religion would continue to have on policy in this country. Now that danger seems set to increase, with talk of revisiting laws legalising abortion and same-sex marriage. I’ve sent a letter in response via the Free Society Institute – if you are as concerned as I am, please also protest this incursion of nonsense into a domain which really doesn’t need more confusion.

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  1. Jacques
    Jacques June 22, 2010 at 9:54 am | | Reply

    A journalist from the UK Independent recently interviewed me for an article on McCauley and the Rhema church. Interested parties can read the article here.

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