So, as am atheist, I've put up with religions pushing 'their' agendas for most of my life. Fair play - entitled too. Yet when the alphabets have a go, nope. If you cannot see the inequity in that not sure what i can say?
Human rights for who?
I am not picking a fight bro. It’s an honest question. I have two millennial daughters who educate my cranky old fashion ass all the time. But I struggle to understand the hatred even though I also don’t understand the physical attraction for gays.
Both of you hit the nail on the head.
The bare facts of it
1. the LGQBT community is more prone to self harm/suicide due to being/feeling ostracized from the community
2. Manly labelled the day "inclusion" day, meaning we include everyone, everyone is supported
3. The fact that the previous thread went for 50 odd pages and this thread is now at 27 pages of objections, combined with the below points, blatantly shows they are NOT accepted and still ostracized by large chunks of society, hence their prevalence for self harm and suicide due to this ostracization is a very
real problem.
i. The former PM tried to bring in a religious discrimination bill to ALLOW discrimination against LGBQT community
ii. The former PM placed Katherine Deves in Warringah to dog whistle and DISCRIMINATE against the LGBQT community
iii. SSM plebiscite was purely about whether we afford human rights to the LGBQT community and 40% of our community said no they don't deserve human rights
iv. The fact that some label the LGBQT community as groomers and paedophiles and absolutely no objection or disgust from others is shown at this blatant mischaracterisation (LIES)
4. The fact that the religious people in the community (not the 7 Manly players) dare to actually fucking say that LGBQT stuff is "rammed down our throats" without having a shred of awareness of how much their religion is rammed down everyone elses throats is just mind numbingly astounding. Seriously WTF, how much can you guys play the victim, WHEN YOU ARE THE MAJORITY AND YOU'RE THE OPRRESSORS FFS!
It's this simple, IMHO, you could go to that game or wear those colours in a show of support that you say to the LGBQT community "You are loved, supported and accepted as humans, as our equals" and then very easily, could teach your kids, that in your religion it is a sin but you must always treat every human with respect and compassion. There's no hypocrisy there.
That's it, that's how simple it is. You get to keep your religious belief and you get to treat those people as equal humans. Your churches preach that their doors are open to everyone, that was not proven by these actions/comments.
