The Editor, John Surname, Ant Rogenous, Jeremy Sear and Craig discuss:

* Brendan Nelson’s “vision” thing
* Mercy Ministries and Gloria Jeans
* Peter Garrett flip, flop and flapping
* Basil Brush is a racist bastard
* Andrew Bolt vs. Tim Blair in a naked GrodsThink cage fight to the death

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 GrodsThink 8 (18/3/08) [35:27m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Maybe I’m the last guy in Australia to know about this but the Gloria Jeans coffee shop franchise is co-owned by two men with close links to the Pentecostal Hillsong Church. In addition to this, Gloria Jeans is a major corporate sponsor of Mercy Ministries which “is a non-profit organization for young women who face life-controlling issues such as eating disorders, self-harm, drug and alcohol addictions, depression and unplanned pregnancy.” Mercy Ministries is strongly anti-abortion and views “lesbianism as a sin that their residential program assists girls to ‘walk in freedom from.’”

Even though Mercy Ministries (and therefore Gloria Jeans) fights for women’s freedom from freedom*, their possession of a MySpace page means they aren’t interested in fighting for freedom from bad web design.

* Thanks to Bruce for giving us this awesome phrase.