{"id":334,"date":"2014-05-09T01:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/electoralreformaustralia.org\/?p=334"},"modified":"2014-05-09T01:14:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T15:14:11","slug":"10-good-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electoralreformaustralia.org\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"A Fundamentalist argument for fully optional preferential voting!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When God threatened to destroy Sodom unless 50 Good Men could be found he was argued down to 10.\u00a0 After all what is the difference between 50 and 45, 45 and 40, etc.?<\/p>\n<p>As it happens He could only find four &#8211;\u00a0 Lot, Lot\u2019s wife and their two daughters. (you\u2019ll notice that three of the Good Men were actually women)<\/p>\n<p>Lot\u2019s wife promptly found herself wanting and was turned into a pillar of salt.<\/p>\n<p>The two daughters blotted their copybook by making their father drunk and having sex with him, thereby leaving only one Good Man.\u00a0 (Genesis 18, 23-33; 19, 32-37)<\/p>\n<p>The moral of the story?<\/p>\n<p>If God can only find one Good Man why should voters be expected to find more?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_343\" style=\"width: 461px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicholsoncartoons.com.au\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-343\" class=\"size-full wp-image-343\" alt=\"Cartoon from www.nicholsoncartoons.com.au\" src=\"http:\/\/electoralreformaustralia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/voter.jpg\" width=\"451\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cartoon from www.nicholsoncartoons.com.au<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When God threatened to destroy Sodom unless 50 Good Men could be found he was argued down to 10.\u00a0 After all what is the difference between 50 and 45, 45 and 40, etc.? As it happens He could only find four &#8211;\u00a0 Lot, Lot\u2019s wife and their two daughters. (you\u2019ll notice that three of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electoralreformaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electoralreformaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electoralreformaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electoralreformaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electoralreformaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/electoralreformaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/electoralreformaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electoralreformaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electoralreformaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electoralreformaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}