Religious discrimination works both ways.

Would Robin Hood be a terrorist in the 21st century?

The powers that be would always consider them terrorists TB 😉

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/sep/17/occupy-activists-student-debt-corinthian-colleges

I saw a tweet the other day which said wtte

“The same people who are against Marriage Equality under the inaccurate argument about ‘religious freedoms’ is the same group who are currently agitating to ban the Burqa ”

Pretty much sums it up.

And, thanks for not closing reb. I know I don’t post a lot these days, but still do like reading (although it has been slim pickings)

But TB, Shane and AO have kept ticking along 😉

(Maybe I just prefer Realism

Almost needless to say, I sometimes prefer to borrow a sense of realism, or at least a sense of perspective, from the Wachowskis.

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Also, I recall (‘SS’)M being introduced as a nominally ‘controversial’ seminar discussion topic way, way back in my first year at Uni; there was emergent advocacy in some US states to consider the idea, and some states were indeed considering it, in the form of pending bills, I was told; ‘homosexuality’ recently had been decriminalised here, and (advocacy for) (‘SS’)M was posited as a possibility here too, I was told; I remember, first, being perplexed by the idea that ‘homosexuality’ had ever been criminalised (wait, wtfwhy?), and thence wondering what was so controversial about anyones getting married, if they wanted to, given that I seemed hitherto to have lived a life involving a surfeit of extra ‘uncles’ and ‘aunts’, some of whom serial dated, some of whom possibly even had hot-n-steamy one-night-stands, as people of all sorts sometimes do, and some of whom lived as committed de factos, in perfectly ordinary households, some of those relationships presumably enduring through the ‘(de)criminalisation’ era(s), including some with kids, one way or another, and they all seemed pretty normal and likeable, as individual personalities and as families, and invariably they all treated me well; and then, as history tells, John Winston, deputy lapdog extraordinaire, leapt onto the religious-Right(s) DOMA (band)wagon, when state(s)-based bills began emerging here,

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I tend to find that the world’s a much more congenial place if I remember ‘you be who you are, and I’ll be who I am’; so, the proffered ‘it’s okay to say no’ isn’t really okay, I ratiocinate, if it’s object or corollary is to tell, directly or indirectly, others that they can’t be, or it’s not okay to be, who they are; or if it asks people to ignore that part of themselves which should be aware that others have agencies and beingnesses of their own; and, therefore, to ignore a common responsibility to (foster) relational reciprocity(ies); denying other consenting adults the possibility of effectively saying yes on their own behalves isn’t my place, even if Cory Bernardi and Co would go there, and apparently often, for an all-pervasive and essentially-contraconsensual latent menage-a-trois.

In short, then, to this mind, there is no real choice in (marriage) equality, and no necessary natural limit to that equality’s ambit, and no amount of appeal(s) to tradition(al prejudice(s), or for their exceptional conservations, is likely to prove particularly persuasive with me. In fact, I sometimes peruse ‘conservative’ expressions of their worst nightmarish fears, real and/or imagined, and reach the conclusion that whatever they’ve somehow managed to work themselves up into a massive tizzy about, very often, is good, even ideal, by me.

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I know, not believe, that there are more things in the Cosmos than the pseudo-philosophies of superstitious deathcults and cargocults could dream, and even if some of those things happened to find or found some reference or another in certain supposedly-seminal texts, I’d still err on the side of wanting to science/math the shit out of them (the partial differential fringelands of arXiv can be quite interesting, I sometimes like to think).)

Dear LNP we have an electricity crisis because you mob of CNUTS forced state governments to sell their electricity assets or privatised them yourselves. Now you are trying to put the privatisation greed genie back in the bottle. Honestly you are pathetic in your claims to be working for lower power prices. As usual your privatisation and market forces has once again been proven wrong and you have done nothing but support and feed your multinational donors at the expense of all our citizens. Menzies would be turning in his grave at your abandonment of the majority of the population.

So would people who have religious belief be able to stop tolerating people who falsely believe religion is about sky fairies?

Hi Drooghead.

I was raised a strict catholic and now have no faith at all after opening my eyes beyond the indoctrination. It is all made up to gain control of people and their lives, a dictatorship under the guise of religion.

Reb

So true

There were plenty of things Tony Abbott could have been head butted for. All his broken promises as soon as he got elected for one thing. Disliked the man intensely since he came to parliament in 1996.

Unless they interview the person how can he jump to a conclusion.

Abbott and Alan Jones started all this hate against especially politicians with the ditch the witch and throw her into the ocean in a bag campaign. What goes around comes around and it could have been a bit of good old karma, although I do not condone violence of any sort, but I seem to remember Tony Abbott had violent and threatening tendencies of his own while leading the right wing at uni.

“There were plenty of things Tony Abbott could have been head butted for. All his broken promises as soon as he got elected for one thing.”

Every now and then I like to stop by and see what stupid fucking comments the SnowflakeinQld has to post.

I’m never disappointed with confected rage. The confected anger is hilarious. Quite the dickhead

Moronic comments from idiots like the quote above are exactly the type of thing derailing the “Yes” vote (by the way I voted “Yes”)

This process has a long way to go and morons like him are the cause of a surging “No” campaign. The momentum has now shifted to the “No” vote because of dickheads like him

The next Essential poll or whatever are going to make for interesting reading

The Snowflake with his simpleton lunacy would do well to just shut the fuck up !

But hey he doesn’t read my comments anyway.

Well somehow we kinda agree

I voted Yes because I am not surprisingly of the Alan Jones pov that Love can be so elusive that the State has no right to interfere or intrude into that.

It’s very simple

People like your Moron mate from Qld with his stupid fucking “anger” about everything in Life should just shut their stupid gob up and fuck off out of the debate.

All because he is obviously very mediocre

PERIOD

So true reb Turnbull has really become a turncoat for so many beliefs he supposedly held.

The claims by the Neanderthals over abuse and violence, For fucks sake, gays have been abused, spat on, vilified, hated bashed and murdered by right wing cunts for decades and these arseholes complain about being victimised. They would not know the word victim.