Comments on: Scott Morrison delays LGBTI student protections and promises Religious Discrimination Act

By: Camila

Camila — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 09:09:06 +0000

It’s time for a human rights bill for all not selective bills back by politicians who have conflicts of interests and personal faith based bias they are not meant to bring into their jobs.
The lack of impartially and backdooring by sending it to the religious ALRC president sarah who blocked lbgtqi from being included in the family law review – which lbgtqi marriage was the biggest social policy changed needing to be tied into family. Shows again ” we are still not family”
Start equity – Australia has no human rights bill unlike the UK and USA and we have no regional one either and we have just pasted the worst national security laws in the western world without propritionate human rights protection inclusion.
Diversity is our super power but liberals divide and segregate is not to public interests
The courts already removed 6 constitutional rights of lbgtqi tom altobelli who was placed by ruddoch to set law precedents against equal rights – so this is just another failure to be fair independent and its not progressing Australia its hurting harming good people who love each other vs a government who only love their kind and hate everyone else they are paid to respect and protect – they don’t.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 08:25:41 +0000

In reply to Dave. Oh I'm so glad my first post is time-stamped. I just saw Andrew Bolt on Sky ��ճԹ� go to town on ScoMo's religious freedom bill. As I predicted Bolt fears it will be terrible for Christians. He put it quite well: the best freedom for religion comes from less not more laws. Bolt wants existing discrimination legislation pared back and he's not falling for ScoMo's bullshit. Personally I support existing discrimination law but Bolt is right when he says churches don't. Today ScoMo effectively announced this will be an election issue. The safe money says he will withdraw this well before the election, tail between legs, begging forgiveness for his sins.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 06:39:20 +0000

Wow. Just wow. After the Liberals nearly killed themselves trying to make sure marriage equality was done and dusted by the next federal election, because Turnbull knew what a killer it would be if it was still unresolved, ScoMo has thrown the campaign bus into reverse and is hurtling back into the fray where his religious buddies got their collective arses so seriously kicked only a year ago.

So many points to make I don’t know where to begin. Just wow.

My big prediction about this however is that churches may be decidedly less on board than you might initially suspect. The biggest discriminators on religious grounds are the religious, not secular atheist types (we regard all religions as dumb, but they regard each other as evil and hell-bound, that’s a much bigger deal). ScoMo is already announcing this is about protecting minority religions. They don’t need protecting from me (although I am critical of religions which are inherently sexist, homophobic or violent), but you’ll hear a lot of God-based anti-Muslim rhetoric from the Christian crowd I can assure you.

As for discriminating against so-called “lifestyles” which are incompatible with their church doctrine, my suspicion is that this will become a legal minefield for churches and related schools etc who try too hard to overtly discriminate.