The secretive Exclusive Brethren sect hit the news again today with a report in The Age that WorkChoices legislation was redrafted to accommodate Brethren anti-union beliefs. (The story was denied by a Government spokesman.)

Also up there on the Brethren’s list of evils are voting, gay sex, newspaper reading and the use of computers.  The last of these presents a tricky challenge when it comes to doing the books, so the sect leaders have worked out a novel way to bend the rules:

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