I personally cannot see how attitudes to moral issues relate to political preferences.
Here is a list of some of these questions from the test:
Sex outside marriage is usually immoral.
A same sex couple in a stable, loving relationship, should not be excluded from the possibility of child adoption.
Pornography, depicting consenting adults, should be legal for the adult population.
What goes on in a private bedroom between consenting adults is no business of the state.
No one can feel naturally homosexual.
And as to how the following have anything to do with political persuasions is quite beyond my comprehension:
Astrology accurately explains many things.
Some people are naturally unlucky.
I realise that abortion and homosexual unions are political issues in the USA, but this has never been the case in Australia.
In ALL moral issues, MPs are invited to make a conscience vote, and not necessarily follow party lines.
Here is a current news item which sets this issue out pretty clearly:
February 6, 2005
The Prime Minister, John Howard, said today he would permit Parliament to debate a private member's bill on abortion but had no expectation it would pass.
Mr Howard said he personally did not like abortion and he expected the Opposition Leader, Kim Beazley, held similar views.
Pro-life Labor backbencher, John Murphy, has proposed putting forward a private member's bill to force doctors to provide more information about abortions. Other members have flagged bills limiting Medicare funding of abortions.
Mr Howard said a debate on such a bill if introduced would certainly cause divisions within the Government but also within the Labor Party.
"If somebody put forward a private member's bill and there seemed to be a strong desire to have a debate about it, then I think the sensible thing would be to allow it to be debated. It would be silly not to," he said on the Nine Network.
Asked if he thought such a bill would have any chance of success, he replied: "No, I don't."
"My view is that there is not a majority in the Parliament to limit existing funding arrangements."
Mr Howard said there seemed to be a view from some that because the abortion issue had been already debated, it could not be debated again.
He said people could not be stopped talking about something they felt strongly about.
"This is Australia. It's a democracy and people can raise anything they like but the Government's position has not changed," he said.
"We are not going to be sponsoring any change to the existing funding arrangements. That is our role. The law is governed by the states.
"I don't expect there to be a private member's bill to limit funding arrangements. If there were to be one, then everybody would be allowed a free vote."
Mr Howard said practical and sensible comments had come from Catholic Archbishop of Sydney Cardinal George Pell and Anglican Archbishop of Sydney Peter Jensen.
He said Cardinal Pell said the Catholic church was going to establish a facility to encourage women to look at alternatives to abortion.
"That is a practical way of approaching it. It enhances choice and that is to be commended," he said.
"Archbishop Jensen spoke a great deal of sense when he said that people in the churches and elsewhere should not expect members of Parliament on an issue like this to legislate in defiance of public opinion."
Earlier, Mr Beazley reaffirmed the right of Labor MPs to take their own stand on abortion, but urged them to be cautious.
Mr Beazley said everyone in the Labor Party was entitled to their own view on abortion.
"People in the Labor Party are allowed an individual attitude on abortion," he told the Ten Network.
"Having said that, I do regard the privacy issues concerned with women who have the process of a termination, I do regard them as important and I would not want to see that violated in any way."
Senior Nationals senator Ron Boswell has also raised the prospect of introducing his own private member's bill to change Medicare funding for abortion.
He reignited the abortion debate by requesting detailed statistical information about women who had terminations and what the procedures cost.
Mr Beazley said he believed Senator Boswell had another agenda behind his request for more statistics on abortions.
"Yes, I think he has another agenda, you can ask him about his particular agenda," Mr Beazley said.
"But what I have to say about that is this, this country, this community has decided via courts, via legislation in some states, and it is a state issue primarily in terms of the legislation, that women do have a right to choose."
Mr Beazley praised the work of a Catholic church in Sydney which last year set up services to help make it easier for women to have a baby instead of having an abortion.
AAP
