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I thought that in this nation the principle that all people are born equal was paramount. Everyone who believes that all people have the same basic human rights regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation will be outraged and appalled by the proposed actions of the Victorian government. Freedom from discrimination in employment is a basic human right. This issue is not about religious freedom. It is about giving religious organizations the right to infringe on other people's human rights.

Homeschooling and private schools will continue to grow. Many parents agree with the dogma of non discriminatory policy but don't want a homosexual teaching their kids as anyone with a brain knows that teachers are role models. Also anyone interested in science wants their kids to be also show the massive amounts of evidence that contradicts evolution let alone being taught facts that support a Creator. This will never be done when the faith of secular humanism continues to be the predominant dogma.

""In my view, the Greens hate Christianity because the parties leader is a homosexual and the Bible utterly condemns homosexual behavior, and it's members appear to think the same way about Christians (let their VOTEs be on their heads)""

Posted by ALGOREisRICH, Friday, 18 February 2011 7:58:09 PM

"the Greens" - as in a policy to hate Christianity, or the significant results of a poll, regular pronouncements .... or just your view

Is misrepresentation on your head?

"FYI.. 'we know' where you are trying to take our society, and it is a very very evil bad place. Your destination is like the big bad wolf dressed in Grannies clothes. Deceptive and ravenous.""

Deceptively or Openly?

The destination - in Granny's bed?

Runner said: "Many parents agree with the dogma of non discriminatory policy but don't want a homosexual teaching their kids as anyone with a brain knows that teachers are role models"

Do they also worry about their daughters being taught by men, lest they should decide to change gender? Do they worry about their sons being taught by women in case the boy decide to wear dresses? Children can know more be influenced to change from straight to gay than from male to female. You don't 'catch' homosexuality. You can't just decide to become homosexual. You either are, or you aren't.

In Born Gay: The Psychobiology of Sex Orientation (2005), Glenn Wilson, a reader in personality at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, and Qazi Rahman, a psychobiologist at the University of East London, found that:

"… the accumulation of evidence from independent laboratories across the world has shown that the biological differences between gay and straight people cannot be ignored . . . our sexual preference is a fundamental and immutable component of our human nature."

Further, Wilson and Rahman assert categorically that ‘the research leaves absolutely no room for parental or societal influence on this intimate trait’. They insist that children cannot be seduced or otherwise led into homosexuality regardless of how overbearing the
mother or absent the father – ‘no amount of poor parenting can waylay a child born to walk the path of heterosexuality’.

There is absolutely no basis upon which anyone could credibly argue that a homosexual teacher would have one jot of influence upon a child's sexuality. Any discrimination based of that belief is pure bigotry.

So, these private religious schools that take public money,

When their religiously vetted teachers abuse children, will the school prosecute them separately? or protect them using public funding, or just tax-exempt church money?

What penalties should extend to the hiring team for failing to apply an effective filter, supposedly something they care about?

How can they prove their religious filter works?

Rusty