Paul, I recognise your leftist leanings, but you should learn that you are not standing for the particular Judge, you are standing in respect of the Laws he / she administers / represents. If you do not like our laws and violate them you have to take the consequences of the penalties they impose. If you think our laws are not more than pompous then identify their failings or move to where you can respect a State law in your liking.

Posted by Paul1405, "I should have added from the above story I have far more respect for some unsung people in life than for some pompous clown in a wig sitting above us all, demanding respect!"
Posted by Paul1405

Dear Josephus,

«If you do not like our laws and violate them you have to take the consequences of the penalties they impose.»

Easy said by people who do like the laws under which they live, perhaps because they are lucky to be in the majority.

«If you think our laws are not more than pompous then identify their failings or move to where you can respect a State law in your liking.»

Would you actually leave your home and move to some foreign country (if they let you) if the "Cannibalism Act, 2025", legislated by a democratic majority, declared that "Christian Communion is a forbidden form of cannibalism. Penalty: feeding to the lions"?
(judging by some of the comments, there are already some members of this forum who are militant atheists that would be more than happy to make such laws)

Would you not rather remain in Australia with your family, despise the state and its laws and continue to eat the Body of Christ in secret?

Now what if similar laws were legislated across the globe because they were called for by a United-Nations treaty?

What I keep calling for, is to keep the states small so that everyone will find a reasonable place on this planet where they can live happily with the law.

Hi Yuyutsu,

Yes, sometimes the law is an ass, but usually it's workable and necessary to maintain peace and some semblance of order in society. Without it, I would probably run amok.

As an equal-opportunity atheist though, I have to say I don't think Christians should, now or ever, be fed to lions, or gays chucked off tall buildings, or young women be slashed and cut to remove all means of sexual pleasure. Widows (and widowers) shouldn't be thrown onto burning pyres, young girls shouldn't be married off at their fathers' pleasure, consenting adulterers should be left alone, and women allowed to wear what they like, and to go wherever they like.

Cheers,

Joe

" not standing for the particular Judge, you are standing in respect of the Laws"
So the post office clerk makes us stand in line and stand at the counter. We stand as the council truck roars up and seizes our worldly garbage. Even the life saver gets in the act. Next they will remove all chairs from Centrelink and I won't stand for that.

Judges are not demanding personal respect above the respect anyone worth two bob pays other human beings doing their jobs. In the Courtroom the judge is conducting a legal procedure in which everyone present must acknowledge the law that governs it. Those who reject the rule of law are doing so because they are criminals. The Moslem terrorist wearing a body bag and refusing to acknowledge the judge was a criminal living the lie that the law of her phoney cult displaced the law that prevailed where she sat. She was no better than the evil woman who, asked on TV what title she had to the land on which she was living in an illegal settlement in Palestine, brandished a Bible.

I saw an Aussie get a sentence and he walked outside the door and gave the magistrate 2 fingers with a prayer of some sort . British by descent he looked, but what can you expect from rabbit poachers.