http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/13417612/doctor-barred-for-doing-male-snip/

Pericles, it sounds like the Catholics simply barr doctors who
perform the snip or any anti Catholic dogma operations like tieing
tubes, easy fixed. Us mugs just have to live with it.

That is my point really, Catholic dogma promotion, bankrolled
by the taxpayer.One would think that politicians, including
Catholic ones, would be called to account over this. It needs some
lobby group to do it.

To all religious people stop trying to convert your way of thinking onto those who do not want to join your viewpoint, nearly all religious people will do it in a sneaky way, as an example, he is looking down on you, you know or have you ever thought of praying to God, or your soul is with you,you know,these sayings they hope will lead you into their warped religious viewpoint.I do not under any circumstance try to convert any one to Atheism,but when these sayings. are said by the religious, one day I will say how about joining me in Atheism, it is the only way to go. I have my viewpoint and you have yours, so keep it to yourself.

I find it quite extraordinary that only Poirot and Pericles have taken exception to the language used in this article.
I am happy for all those who attended this convention, truly. I am glad they all feel better for having attended.
But if they are going to claim the moral high ground on the basis of reason, perhaps they could use more reasonable language, rather than -as Poirot has suggested- a speech more appropriate to a revivalist meeting?
Really David, you are starting to come across as a classic reformist; transferring one idiocy to another instead of just rejecting the idiocy.
I concede Yabby's point, but I hope he is wrong. A secular government should not need an Atheist lobby.

Ojnab,

If you scan the above I think you'll find the dissenting voices are atheist. Indeed despite David Nichols's (sorry, only Jesus and co gets the possessive apostrophe without the extra s) best efforts to provoke something quotable from the theists, to put on his website and twitter, they've wisely maintained their dignity and kept quite.

I wonder if Nichols and co realise that their much vaunted atheist convention is actually nothing more than a book launch for their gawd-awful stars?
Maybe he can get say 1% of the take for next year's publicity drive?
Seems only fair?

I wish I was wrong, Grim, but the last paragraph of the posted URL
kind of said it all, so I will snip it below:

*But a spokeswoman for the North Metropolitan Area Health Service said if a contract was reached with the health group, it was expected services such pregnancy terminations, sterilisation and contraception procedures would not be provided at the hospital.*

In other words, if a woman travels down from the country to have
her baby, as there is a shortage of obstetricians in the country,
if she wants her tubes tied whilst there, it will be tough titties.
She'll have to go for another stay at another hospital.

Some browsers possibly didn’t show my last sentence. Oh well, let’s push on.

I’m always intrigued by atheists whose main talent is knocking others who are actually achieving something worthwhile whilst they consider having all the answers themselves, one of which is doing sweet nothing to improve human happiness.

Nestled in forums where their quaint ideas are not seriously challenged fits perfectly with this false sense of superiority, a delusion of course, where they rabbit-on how goddam awful is anyone who questions the status quo in a manner they do not like. There possibly isn’t a manner which they would like because any success such as the AFA has makes them feel insecure and worthless as humans. Not our or my fault is all I can say about that.

We never see them or hear of them outside a forum situation and it must be assumed they are doing good anonymously in the ‘right’ fashion, whatever that may be.

And we never see them on the AFA Forums, or not for very long anyway, as they can’t sustain the nonsense in the face of intelligent appraisal.

But prove me wrong, how about hop on the AFA Forums and tell us all where atheism, the AFA or indeed, me, are going wrong. I can’t see it but you may have something intelligent to add to the ongoing discussions about benefiting human existence.

Meanwhile, the AFA will continue to promote the idea that the privileges afforded religions are unacceptable in a society whose ideal is democratic.

David