Comments on: VEOHRC responds to Religious Discrimination Bill /news/veohrc-responds-to-religious-discrimination-bill/188235 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Wed, 16 Oct 2019 23:49:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Robert McCormick /news/veohrc-responds-to-religious-discrimination-bill/188235#comment-631536 Wed, 16 Oct 2019 23:49:41 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=188235#comment-631536 One of the problems religious fanatics – and that includes some senior members of all religious denominations – face is that they cannot make up their minds as to what God wants. The fact is they simply do not know, and are incapable of knowing, what it is he/she wants of us. They simply cite phrases from those pseudo-historical books the Old and New Testaments – both of which were written by , entirely for the benefit of men. Christians quote/cite the New Testament and claim that it is an accurate record of what Jesus said and did. This is, quite simply, impossible. Even the most expert Theologians within the two major Christian denominations, Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism, agree that the first written record was not written down until, at least, 64 years after the death of Jesus! There is no way that any of those records could be even in the slightest way accurate.
Yes, by all means people should have the Right to practice their religions BUT they should not be allowed to Discriminate, Debase or preach Hatred of those who do not agree with them. In today’s Secular Australian Society, by a vast majority, most people simply don’t give a toss about Religion. They just get on with their lives as best they can. Having been involved in employment for decades only once, way back when I first joined the workforce, did Religion become an issue. That was when I was told that I should list myself as “Anglican” on my application form because the company – a very big Retailer – would not employ Roman Catholics. In all the years since religion has never been an issue and I have never asked anyone about theirs or lack of it.
Religious organisations want the Right to Discriminate – a Right denied to all others. – incidentally when we are terminally ill, have had a serious heart attack or a stroke – even if we have given written instructions that in the event out Quality of Life cannot be restored to the same or near level prior to illness and are just to be “kept comfortable” a Doctor/Nurse, or other person with religious beliefs, can discriminate against us by simply ignoring our wishes and resuscitating us. That is Discrimination of the worst sort.

]]> By: Dave /news/veohrc-responds-to-religious-discrimination-bill/188235#comment-631427 Wed, 16 Oct 2019 06:05:07 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=188235#comment-631427 “Carr also notes that this could empower health professionals to object to treating anyone based on religious grounds.”

I agree that faith healers should have this right. Any medical professional purporting to follow medical science needs to justify their refusal on medical science grounds, not religious ones.

To put it another way, would you accept your bank telling you that their investment strategy with your savings is praying really hard that some god will pay interest on them? Of course not, and I presume neither would APRA and the other financial regulators.

Medical professionals who believe in religion over medicine need to be exposed as the dangerous quacks they are. Exhibit A, they claim “religious exemption” not to treat a class of human beings, that’s it they’re quacks.

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