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Religious have no right to judgment on sexual orientation or gender identity : Comments

By Robin Banks, Anja Hilkemeijer and Rodney Croome, published 6/12/2018

This means, for example, that a Jewish school can turn away a teacher if they are Christian, but not just because they are gay, transgender, Aboriginal or in a wheelchair.

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any school that does not teach natural marriage between man and woman obviously denies biology and is not worth its salt.
Posted by runner, Thursday, 6 December 2018 11:24:00 PM
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Most schools discourage all forms of sexuality in school- from memory.
Posted by Canem Malum, Friday, 7 December 2018 2:00:27 AM
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Sexual orientation is a non-issue - the whole thing is about those who hate religion trying to test the water to see how far they can oppress the religious.

Now the main reason for people to hate religion is their belief that the fulfilment of life is in pleasures (including, but not limited to, sexual pleasures), while religion teaches austerity instead and that pleasures and happiness are very different things.
Posted by Yuyutsu, Friday, 7 December 2018 2:26:25 AM
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"I think that people should be free to practice their
religions as long as their religious practices do not
break any Australian laws."

That's all well and good Foxy until you get someone in government who says "Well we'll have to make some new laws that step on these religious zealots toes then", and do it deliberately.

This is a difficult topic for me because I usually try to be fair, and I know that I can't empower one religion I tolerate without empowering another I dislike.

- In all fairness I prefer Christianity to Islam;
You don't see Christians running around murdering the religious of different faiths, at least not recently.

But religions / schools / funding, its all a tricky issue.
Posted by Armchair Critic, Friday, 7 December 2018 2:52:38 AM
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AC,

Given how many religious institutions, many of them
schools, were raised in the Royal Commission as
having a "do nothing" approach to child sexual abuse,
the temerity of taking action on this borders on the
breathtaking.
Posted by Foxy, Friday, 7 December 2018 10:15:40 AM
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I am still wavering in dis-belief that there is a 'religion' that advocates or preaches 'harm' to others.
It even prescribes harm to it's own followers, (the women that is) I find it confusing and unsettling that, not only is there such a 'cult', but that it is openly invited into our country.
Now before the do-gooders and the loony left get all twisted with rage, stop and give thought to the logic of all this.
I have watched many debates involving, and about, Muslims and the Koran, and the one thing that has always stood out is the steadfast attitude of the Muslim when asked questions which clearly put the Muslim, and the Koran, at odds with the local laws.
Every time they up-held the koran and not local law.
In the case of the koran, this is bad, as it encourages the killing of certain people, just to mention an extreme example.
So where do you draw the line?
Obviously, it is not fair to deny all Muslims entry into a country, but, some mechanism has to be created to protect people from the risk of these acts being carried out, (and of course, in the name of Allah) because it too is recognised as a religion.
In my defense, I would caution any law makers in creating restrictions directed at such entities, because in doing so can be seen as prejudicial and discriminatory, and can bring forward any retaliatory actions as might otherwise not have been acted upon without, what they would see or perceive as, provocation.
Posted by ALTRAV, Friday, 7 December 2018 12:17:01 PM
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