Comments on: State-sponsored child abuse /opinion/soapbox-opinion/state-sponsored-child-abuse/52140 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Thu, 19 May 2011 14:05:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Jallybear /opinion/soapbox-opinion/state-sponsored-child-abuse/52140#comment-71741 Thu, 19 May 2011 14:05:15 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=52140#comment-71741 No Arthur. Religious fundamentalists who belong to any anti gay campaign are inciting hatred and discrimination by expressing such views. They rely on one’s right to freedom of speech to get away with it. Most gays and lesbians wishing to express a ‘gay agenda’ are usually only asking for acceptance and equality – not fueling hatred and prejudice.

There is a difference. I agree Doug !

]]> By: Arthur /opinion/soapbox-opinion/state-sponsored-child-abuse/52140#comment-71726 Thu, 19 May 2011 08:23:21 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=52140#comment-71726 “… and, I have no doubt, other snake-oil peddlers such as Mormons and Scientologists, are guilty too. It is time to stop subsidising these dangerously deluded people and get them away from the children.”

As soon as you start down the path to discriminate against people’s beliefs and enact laws to prohibit them, it is not too much further down the same path that those same laws (or variations of them) will be turned against other minorities including racial groups and the gay community.

There are better ways to stand up for one’s rights and protect the rights of children–attacking the beliefs of others isn’t one of them. A religious person’s freedom to speak and act is the same freedom as a gay person’s. You cannot stop one without stopping the other. Think about it.

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