david f

It seems to me that "any citizen (does not) have the right to speak his or her mind" when they are sacked or otherwise forced out of a job or otherwise excluded or abused for using that 'right'.

A right exists only if there are no adverse consequences; if there is no punishment or abuse for exercising the supposed right.

Even now, the Northern Territory government is preparing a Bill that, if passed, would see the always accepted rights - 2,000 years worth - of Christian schools removed. Not just rights would be removed, but actual Christian beliefs will be officially nullified by mere politicians, who want to remove one group's rights in order to give another group rights, when all that second group has to do is stay away from something they do not believe in.

Dear ttbn,

You wrote: "Even now, the Northern Territory government is preparing a Bill that, if passed, would see the always accepted rights - 2,000 years worth - of Christian schools removed. Not just rights would be removed, but actual Christian beliefs will be officially nullified by mere politicians, who want to remove one group's rights in order to give another group rights, when all that second group has to do is stay away from something they do not believe in."

There has not been 2,000 years of Christian belief in Australia. Did Christians feel the Aborigines had any right to their religion when they forced them into mission stations and put Christianity on them making them abandon their own religions? If the Aborigines in the Northern Territory abandoned the alien Christian religion forced on them it seems only good and right.

Whatever. You have your opinion and you will stick to it. Fair enough.

Mindless Sport translates into mindless Politicians !

david f,
I wonder how you'd deal with humans who have no concept of a wider World ?
How would you deal with giving them commodities you thought would help them but ended up getting thrown back at you. Then, when you realised the futility of trying to help you stop & many years later their descendants accuse you of denying them these commodities & of being racist for no longer providing.
Keep in mind that you would have been shipped here against your will, had to fight against your will just to survive & in the process these humans drew the shorter straw !
Keep in mind you wouldn't have had any education only the sense & desire to survive. You survive & your descendants are then paying all their lives for all this & now you're the most recent descendant & you're still paying humans who'd have no concept of what went on if you hadn't told them ?
Also keep in mind Australia was a frontier environment in the days of no enlightenment & definitely no indoctrination facilities until you came along & had people build them for you at slave rates !

Dear Indyvidual,

What are you talking about?