Well runner, consensus science is what science is all about, but they call it replication of results, they are some lunatic fringe scientists for an example of the ridicule this deserves, see the Steve project, a tongue in cheek parody of your silly statement of scientists who don't support evolution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Steve

You misunderstand science, it is about experimental conditions and the replication of results. CONSENSUS SCIENCE IS ALL THERE IS, if one lunatic reports a result, it is not accepted science until it is replicated by others, see Flesihman and Ponds cold fusion experiment, that not replicated by others is generally untrue. Time and Time again the results show simple beginnings quickly lead to more complex life forms.

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Quite simply, organisations that want government funding for their activities should abide by the principles of the secular state that Australia still is. The proposed changes are bad.

Melbourne and Sydney Universities were justifiably proud that they were not tied to any church when they were established, by contrast at the same time, Catholics were barred from Trinity College Dublin and other British universities.

On ya Bugsy.. but you mocked ME..not my faith... mocking me if cool... it allows your creative energies an outlet..and it's fine.

Kicking the Bible all over the place is a bit dodgy though.

Some might describe that kind of sentiment like "Kicking the Quran all over the place"...hmmmm

I notice Tim is no longer mocking our faith.. good.. as it should be.

But let's not forget what this issue is all about

RELIGIOUS FREEEEDOMMMMM.. and how the Greens are trying to stifle it, and oppress the most intense source of anti homosexual behavior information in our society today, the Bible.

I can't imagine Bob Brown and his male partner sleep too well knowing that there is a huge Church bogeyman out there which could conceivably speak against their chosen life on a weekly basis.

Our parliament opens with the Lord's prayer.. = Bible based=Chrisianity based= CHURCHes...

For a man who feels he is attracted to other men for sexual gratification, it must be all he can manage not to lash out 'overtly' at the Church, rather than just making 'suggestions' here and there about 'moments of silence' rather than the Biblically based Lords prayer in Parliament. After all...that prayer reminds him of how God see's his behavior, and that cannot be pleasant.

So..the Greens, led by a homosexual, have a very strong motive for destroying the credibility and influence of 'The Church' and Christianity in general.

We've seen their ugly efforts in the courts.. we've felt their attacks on us.. in parliament.

We never had a problem until THEY and Labor decided to suddenly 'extend' laws which we never had for 200 yrs, but suddenly..they talk about Human Rights.. all the while denying us OUR human rights.

Well.. having seen, felt and touched all this Green/Labor/Progressive legal rubbish.. it's time to fight back... "fight dem back".... of course.. being Christian, we will use the courts..not raging mobs in the street.

BUT.. you might like this?
http://www.englishdefenceleague.org/

But it's currently under DSS or HACK attack... should be back online soon.. it's WAR....

Lol Bugsy! Very clever.
Oh the delicious irony of penning new words to an iconic song by an iconic gay singer, about an anti-gay contributor to this forum :)

The article points out some very pertinent points about the extreme religion-based discrimination allowed in some private schools, welfare agencies and hospitals, that is refused in the wider community.

"Who the faiths employ in their pulpits is their own affair. If they want to tear themselves apart over the ordination of women or homosexuals, they are answerable only to themselves. But ever since anti-discrimination laws first appeared 30 or 40 years ago, the faiths have fought for exemptions to allow them to employ only the sexually virtuous in their welfare agencies, hospitals and schools."

It is truly disgraceful that some private schools I knew of (Catholic)
refused to continue employing teachers when it was found the teacher had started 'living with their partner in sin'.
Oh goodness me, those disgusting unmarried fornicators!

On the one hand, they had employed what they had obviously believed to be a good teacher for their pupils, only to decide that their marital status now determines they are no good anymore?

Yet the Catholics seemed to have no problem at all moving paedophile Priests and Brothers around to different schools in the past, despite their despicable sins?

Why is it ok for one lot of teacher employers to decide on a moral code for their prospective teachers, and not another?
Isn't that pure discrimination?

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