tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987734333551478420.post2746263488564284762..comments2022-08-17T14:54:53.213+10:00Comments on Oaktree Anglican Vicar's Blog: Exemptions to Equal Opportunity LawsMark Duriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18024979657079255161noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987734333551478420.post-25035085479846540282009-06-23T08:27:31.849+10:002009-06-23T08:27:31.849+10:00Thank you for explaining the implications of the p...Thank you for explaining the implications of the proposed changes to the Victorian Equal Opportunity laws.<br /><br />Having been born in Melbourne, I'm surreally watching the rapid but steady disintegration of our beautiful State. <br /><br />I am acutely aware of the implications of the proposed Options changes. My parents emigrated from former Yugoslavia to escape a faithless state and create a better life for their family. I will stand up for my children's right to openly live and share their life-giving faith.<br /><br />If you were to organise a walk to raise awareness, I would join you.Finoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987734333551478420.post-37230675103177420952009-06-05T19:39:22.819+10:002009-06-05T19:39:22.819+10:00Another thought:
It is being found here that pull...Another thought:<br /><br />It is being found here that pulling the sub-structure of secularist activity into view is effective in debilitating it and halting and even dispersing its march.<br /><br />This involves addressing not the details of the proposed policies or the assumptions and "data" said to support them.<br /><br />Rather, address is made of the fear or jealousy or anger -- or all three -- driving the secularist effort from its sub-structure. The character issue rather than or at least prior to the ambiguities of the "rights" and proposals issues is found to have leverage in returning discussion to what is really going on and thus to sanity and perhaps even wisdom.<br /><br />Secularists will condemn the character issue as ad hominem. But that is the point: the condemnation demonstrates deficiency of character.<br /><br />What is going on today is not really about rights or policies or studies or data. It is about jealousies, fears and angers projected onto targets as rights, policies, studies, etc.<br /><br />Perhaps speaking truth to power involves speaking what is actually going on today, which turns out to be an issue and an action secularists are not in a position to withstand much less dissemble.David R. Grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416692639208634879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987734333551478420.post-60088694732241911342009-05-25T10:06:15.172+10:002009-05-25T10:06:15.172+10:00This examination of the effects of a surfeit of la...This examination of the effects of a <A HREF="http://web.me.com/wp650385/AH-Home/Theological_Geography/Entries/2009/5/22_A_Fraud_In_The_White_House.html" REL="nofollow">surfeit of lawyers and laws</A> may be of use. In brief, lawyers breed laws like cats breed kittens and happiness of society is inversely proportion to the number of its laws. Politicians with big erasers for masses of laws are indicated.David R. Grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416692639208634879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987734333551478420.post-2490097884018081012009-05-25T10:00:24.179+10:002009-05-25T10:00:24.179+10:00Oh boy, here we go. I am so very sorry to hear th...Oh boy, here we go. I am so very sorry to hear this is happening. It is on the agenda of the same people here in the USA, who also control at the Federal and most state levels, but they have not got to it so far, which surprises me.<br /><br />It is a terrible battle to have to fight. It will winnow the Church of those who view Her as a moral club, looking on the positive side. But it is a retrograde movement for civilization.<br /><br />I and some others here estimate that the shrillness the ideology's partisans and the colossal hubris of its embodiments signals that the ideology is indeed in the mode of <A HREF="http://web.me.com/wp650385/AH-Home/Theological_Geography/Entries/2009/5/9_Senescence_Of_An_Ideology.html" REL="nofollow">senescence</A>. This is scant comfort but perhaps some because it is the case.<br /><br />Of course dying things extort a lot of collateral damage on their way out.<br /><br />My best take on a response is careful preparation of the facts and plain speaking of them into the face of the attacker. This is unlikely to deflect the partisans from their program but it is necessary to speak the truth to evil regardless of cost so long as done clearly and courageously.<br /><br />And there is this to consider, that any effort to legislate against discrimination is discriminatory. The partisans are using a two-edged sword. Cleave their own heads with it.<br /><br />This would have one or more of several salutary consequences. First, it can get them to pull back their pikes and talk sense. Second, it can force the true nature of their program out from behind pretty words and into the light, which shows it as ugly tyranny. Third, it can remind them that the last thing they want is bad press and disorder. It can speed their demise.<br /><br />One cannot tell what speaking truth into the face of error will accomplish or cause to happen. Life is ultimately indeterminate from a mundane point of reference, of course, but that fact must not discourage from doing what is right. In fact, the finest form of service is to do what is right without attachment to the consequences, whatever they are, pleasant or unpleasant.<br /><br />The point, the duty, is to speak the truth into the face of error, the rest is up to God.<br /><br />We are facing the same situation from a slightly different direction -- actually several of them at once -- here in the USA. The Church is not alone in Her experience anywhere She is.<br /><br />God Bless you and God Bless the Holy Church as we seek to do our duty!David R. Grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416692639208634879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-987734333551478420.post-28429983979842909922009-05-25T09:45:22.827+10:002009-05-25T09:45:22.827+10:00This comment has been removed by the author.David R. Grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416692639208634879noreply@blogger.com