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Category: RELIGION

RELIGION

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Ruddock’s Report – The first leak

Reading Time: 5 minutesAn Opinion on Some of The Leaked Recommendations of The Report by The Religious Freedom Review Committee, Set Up to Console Those on The Losing Side of The Marriage Equality Plebiscite. The context against...

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS / RELIGION

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Freedom of and Freedom from Religion

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy responses to a Sydney Morning Herald article on churches lobbying for increased protection of freedom of religion. Presumably these same churches will also support legislation entrenching the freedom from religion rights of those (whether non-mainstream...

RELIGION

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Protecting Religious Freedom

Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen discussing religion, there is a crucial need to distinguish between religion as a religious instutution, and  religion as the religious beliefs, practices and values of individuals. Our democratic society should no longer offer...

MARRIAGE EQUALITY / RELIGION

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The Patterson Bill

Reading Time: 2 minutesOne or two observations on the far right’s Patterson Bill. Service providers (who are not a religious institution) are currently not exempt from anti-discrimination laws regarding discrimination on the grounds of sexuality or sexual...