I just thought I'd send out a salute to the genius who grabbed the url jesusallaboutlife.com. For those who haven't been past a church in NSW or WA in the last couple of months, there's a campaign with the slogan "Jesus: All about life" and a great many churches have a large poster out the front with that slogan.
The
parody site is brilliant and comes up #4 on a google search. I'm sure
this campaign will afford us many opportunities for slander and enturbulation
I wonder if it's got something to do with "Collect '09"?
UPDATE
I've also found out that the url allaboutlife.com has been linked to Secular Thinking.com
A friend of mine, Dr Chaotica has just put out the song 'All about Life'
Nice work, peeps!
Originally posted by Critical Mass
Monday 28 September 2009
Victorian churches can legally discriminate on grounds of sexuality and marital status
In a new equal opportunity bill to be introduced next year, Victorian
religious groups will no longer be allowed to discriminate based on the
grounds of race, disability, age, physical features, political belief or
breastfeeding. Sure, that sounds great, but it's interesting that two
of the major sources of discrimination amongst religious communities,
sexuality and marital status, will not be included in the new bill.
The gut reaction is likely to be something along the lines of "well great, if the churches are going to discriminate, it'll just drive people away from them, aiding in the secularisation of Victoria", but what is often forgotten is the role that religious communities play in community support, employment and social services. This means that religious schools will be able to deny employment to adequately trained people if they are homosexual, a single parent or even living with a de-facto partner, if their religion supports it. It means that welfare could be denied to single parents. It is a disgrace.
More interestingly, many of the religious communities who will be selectively discriminating against these groups will still be recieving tax benefits which are compensated for by the taxes paid, in part, by the very groups that they are discriminating against!
So what's next?
News sources
The Age
SMH
Originally posted by Critical Mass
The gut reaction is likely to be something along the lines of "well great, if the churches are going to discriminate, it'll just drive people away from them, aiding in the secularisation of Victoria", but what is often forgotten is the role that religious communities play in community support, employment and social services. This means that religious schools will be able to deny employment to adequately trained people if they are homosexual, a single parent or even living with a de-facto partner, if their religion supports it. It means that welfare could be denied to single parents. It is a disgrace.
More interestingly, many of the religious communities who will be selectively discriminating against these groups will still be recieving tax benefits which are compensated for by the taxes paid, in part, by the very groups that they are discriminating against!
So what's next?
News sources
The Age
SMH
Originally posted by Critical Mass
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