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Necessary tolerance of religious vilification : Comments
By Peter Hodge, published 9/4/2008It is usually better to err on the side of freedom of expression as much as possible and find a balance between freedom of speech and freedom from vilification.
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Posted by Mr Gerrit H Schorel-Hlavka, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 10:13:22 PM
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The States have no constitutional powers to legislate as to racism and as such any race vilification laws would be unconstitutional(ULTRA-VIRES).
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THEY HAVE CERTAINLY NEVER TAKEN OUT LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST ME OVER THE YEARS FOR PUBLISHING MY BOOKS AS PERHAPS THEY ARE WELL AWARE THAT THEY WOULDN’T GET ANYWHERE AGAINST ME.
. After all it is like the issue of people being forced to vote in federal elections. Well I refused (despite being a candidate) to vote in federal elections and after a 5-year legal battle on 19 July 2006 the County Court of Victoria upheld my cases on all constitutional and other legal grounds.
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While the States retained the legislative powers as to religion, on the other hand the (then) Colony of Victoria legislated of a separation of Church and State with invoking its 1871 legislation to keep finances of religious bodies away from the colony (now State). The Framers of the constitution made clear that no monies could be provided to a religious body. Yet we have that (unconstitutionally) monies are provided by grants, tax deductions, etc.
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No State legislation could possibly use its racial vilification laws to litigate against me for exposing this as what is embedded in the constitution is what I am guaranteed as a right, including the funding of religion being unconstitutional.
As I do not practice any religion I oppose my monies being used through Consolidated Revenue and/or tax deductions as de facto Appropriation Bills for religious purposes.
As for funding of religious schools it should be clear that students of religious schools have the same rights on funding for secular books, etc as should private schools have in likewise manner as a public school!
See also my blog http://au.360.yahoo.com/profile-ijpxwMQ4dbXm0BMADq1lv8AYHknTV_QH