Posted: Jun 22, 2019 2:03 am
There is a need to view this within the wider Australian political context.
Same sex marriage was recently legalised after a nasty, underhanded and drawn out whinge-fest by the usual suspects.
After the populace repudiated the whiners at the heavily biased, expensive and unnecessary voluntary non-binding postal survey and laws were changed (despite several conservative pollies refusing to take part, including our PM) there was immediate talk about a pressing need to change our anti-discrimination laws to include a provision for sanctioned discrimination by religious snowflakes to make them feel better, under the all encompassing guise of "religious freedom".
To this end there was an investigation, the results of which are super secret and not to be seen by the great unwashed (which to me says their own investigation didn't support their desires) and we await any resulting legislation.
The Folau thing has to be seen within this context. It's a dogwhistle to the existing dogwhistle whine about how giving some people equal rights somehow means the rights of others are somehow diminished something something FREEDOM!!!
Same sex marriage was recently legalised after a nasty, underhanded and drawn out whinge-fest by the usual suspects.
After the populace repudiated the whiners at the heavily biased, expensive and unnecessary voluntary non-binding postal survey and laws were changed (despite several conservative pollies refusing to take part, including our PM) there was immediate talk about a pressing need to change our anti-discrimination laws to include a provision for sanctioned discrimination by religious snowflakes to make them feel better, under the all encompassing guise of "religious freedom".
To this end there was an investigation, the results of which are super secret and not to be seen by the great unwashed (which to me says their own investigation didn't support their desires) and we await any resulting legislation.
The Folau thing has to be seen within this context. It's a dogwhistle to the existing dogwhistle whine about how giving some people equal rights somehow means the rights of others are somehow diminished something something FREEDOM!!!