If you have a faith, that's your business.
If you come from another country with a different dress code from ours, that's your business.
If your faith imposes rules on you, then that is also your business.
But when in Australia, do as Australians do.
That's our business!

CJ
"If you have a faith, that's your business.
If you come from another country with a different dress code from ours, that's your business.
If your faith imposes rules on you, then that is also your business.
But when in Australia, do as Australians do.
That's our business!"

And which Australians would that be?
The drunken oafs who acted like vigilantes and bashed up anyone who looked like a Lebanese on the streets of Cronulla?
The bikie gangs who war with each other?
The good blokes who go home and bash their wives?
The footballers who sexually assault women?
This is xenophobia of the worst kind.
The great thing about being Australian is that being an Australian is what you choose to be, not some predetermined behaviours based upon an outback past that never existed for most of us, and the jingoistic love-it-or-leave-it Anzac mythology which most of the original diggers would be embarassed by.

Runner writes 'If all women could control their sexuality they would then not murder so many of their unborn'.

On the other hand, if all men could just keep it in their pants unless they want to make a baby, we wouldn't have any unwanted pregnancies either!

More effective education on contraception and more easily available contraceptives would lead to less abortions.
Mad religious men yelling at young people about the fires of hell raining down on them at the mere thought of sex will be as uneffective as it always has been.

It's quite simple - minorities have the freedom to practice their customs and activities. However, when those beliefs clash with the laws/customs of the host culture, the minority must give way.

Dear CJ
"I wouldn't begrudge them their right to do so"
Where did this right come from?
Blair

Benny T

Unless the minority can show they are right; or that the majority have no business to be interfering. Then the laws/customs should change.

And we are all members of minorities. We are equally entitled to contribute to the shaping of the laws and customs.

What makes you think that people who happen to be born here are entitled to privileges in that process?