🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 17:42:07 +1000, "Clayton Forno"
<cjfat@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

}Last week laws where passed in Australia giving religious groups increased
}powers to pressure for censorship....and today...
}
}In the Australian state of Victoria laws were passed preventing the showing
}of R rated movies (such as "Hannibal" and the re-release of "The Exorcist")
}on Good Friday, because "the Christian religion must be respected"!
}
}Of course it doesn't matter that the rights of everyone in the state who
}does not follow Christianity are not being respected, but unless you are a
}Bible kisser I suppose your rights don't matter.  Luckily I don't live in
}Victoria, but this is a clear indication of the insidious and evil spread of
}religious indoctrination and it's increasing control over the rights of the
}people in this country....and it only shows signs of getting worse and
}spreading.
}
}For many people the Good Friday and Boxing Day movies fests are a tradition.
}I do it myself every year.  The fact that millions of people are literally
}being told what, where and when they can see a movie violates their basic
}democratic rights......and the very concept itself is a spit in the face of
}freethinkers, including the 25% of Australians who do not believe in God.
}
}It's about time some action was taken before this cancer spreads across the
}nation.
}

We'll need to vote that stupid prick Howard and his "Lion's Forum" out
for a start. 

What about the legal right being granted to Xian groups to
discriminate on the basis of religious belief when hiring?

What about Federal education funds being allotted to Catholic schools?

Talk about depressing, no wonder the dollar is in free fall.

XXIII

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