On the school chaplaincy program
Nick Young writes: Re. “Taxpayers should shell out for religious indoctrination in public schools because freedom“
I think that the key part of all of these panicked releases about Safe Schools rests on how it’s always “the LGBTI lifestyle” to people who disagree.
I think that it exposes the fundamental disagreement between people who believe that being LGBTI is something you *are* and people who believe it’s something that you *do*. For people who believe the latter, being LGBTI is a choice, and a morally reprehensible one at that. If you start from the axiom that being LGBTI is a choice, Safe Schools really would be what they claim. Teaching people that making these choices is okay is the same as teaching people to be LGBTI – because that’s all it is, a choice, as far as they are concerned.
On media ownership
Roger Richards writes: Re. “Reform package will deliver Murdoch massive control” (Monday) Doesn’t anybody else care? We have got ourselves into this mess because of the poor duty of care exercised by politicians over decades. Our shocking climate change response is in part due to our reliance on the Murdoch press as well as the power of the coal barons. Farewell democracy, farewell barrier reef.
Maybe the church idiots are actually right on that count, Nick, and your counter-argument amounts to everything outside the norm being a sign of a defect?
Herein lies the problem, the neoliberals have had way to much control over the years. People care but they don’t feel that they are being heard, because the likes of Abbott, Christiansen, Hanson et al, along with the shock jocks & opinion writers have done a number on the Australian people & only the young people & the outliers are left to hold the fort on climate change & the changes that need to happen to bring in alternative forms of power. The only way coal barons will get the picture is when the balanced is tipped & no one wants to buy what they are selling any more, and unfortunately it may all be to late then for the planet & Australia.