It's like I woke up in another world called InsaneEarth, or overnight all people were replaced with Body Snatching mindless counterparts.
To get this bill down to it's bare roots; it allows people with certain thoughts in their heads to openly and legally make other people's lives worse off. And these other people are not acting illegally or even immorally. Their lives are worse off because of who they are. Thoughts in one's heads are legally about to become more valid in society than personhood. Maybe this same argument should be used the next time opposition to abortion comes up.
It breaks my soul that a modern-day society where it is clear that policies that pit one group against another is disadvantageous to a society of well-being, is now allowing and promoting such actions.
And it is cartoonish to think that this discrimination, which is close to being law, is based solely on a single sentence in some book which, even the most advent practitioners agree, should not be taken literally. In fact, there is evidence that the original sentence was "If a man lies with a young boy..." as was somewhat common back then. So a group of people in society are demonstrably worse off because of a translation from a book not to be taken literally. Can I wake up on Earth tomorrow?
So we have learned sweet fuck-all from the abysmal and abusive past of religious power. We apologise to the indigenous for the Stolen Generation yet allow them and even assist them to move onto another, less protected, target. This is religion's last dying attempt at imposing itself onto society, and like the schoolyard bully, it targets a minority segment of the population which has been ostracised solely by the very people now asking for increased power.
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