Australia needs a refferendum

Interesting to hear recently that our good prime minister is of the opinion we need a referendum to remove the bits of our constitution that allow for discrimination.  Great move I think, I will vote for that.  Then I learn that they are going to bind it to a whole heap of other crap.  Well there goes another perfectly good referendum down the toilet.

Any proposal that prevents the commonwealth from passing laws that are in anyway based on race, religion or ethnic background can only be a good thing.  We are all Australians.  We all get up in the morning, we are all always just short of having the money we want to do what we want. There is no long term value in a Government that thinks it wants to micro  meddle based on ethnicity or religion.

This is not to say I necessarily support the wearing of a Burka , but I certainly don't support legislation about burkas that is based on the religion of the wearer.

This also applies to race.  Should a Vietnamese get special English classes based on his race.  Of course not!  If people need to learn English, then they need to learn the language regardless of their native tongue.  But now for the truly controversial part of my summary.  If a person has legal problems, or needs financial support for their on going eduction or for that matter is in need of any other assistance, is their race, creed or ethnic background of any relevance at all.  I would argue that it is not and that if Australia is to move forward, we need to very quickly get away from these paternalistic programs and policies that are based in most cases on race.  Bring on the repeal of Sections 25 and 51 of the constitution, I think it is a really excellent idea.  It will mean that finally after more than a century our government will finally become colour blind.  But don't tie it to another whole heap of rubbish!  You want to put race back in there with another amendment, then ask me and the rest of the Australian people as a separate question.  I for one will not be voting for any attempts to recognize anyone in the constitution, nor will I support the other crap that is being peddled by these clowns.

Religious Zelots

I just heard that a group of religious lunatics in the united states spear to think that their obligations as an employer can and should be modified on the basis of their religious convictions.  This is the United States here folks.  It is not down town Iran where the religious leader get to make law.

I have wondered for a log time why it is that such a populous country has such difficulty with the rest of the world. Now it is obvious. Religious zealots and bigots are the cause of most of the problems of the United States.  What a ludicrous idea.  That as an employer you get not only to dictate the type of health insurance your employees get, but that you think, nay even consider it reasonable, that your employee should have to operate under the weight of your religious conviction is the worst kind of abuse of religion I have ever heard of.

I suppose this same group of old men with such simple and unbending views would consider it ok if their Presbyterian son was required to stop work 4 times a day to turn east and pray, or if their daughter was required by her Cooneyite employer not to cut her hair.

It is all well and good to exemplify religious freedom, but in fact that these gentlemen do not espouse religious freedom. Exactly the reverse in fact.  They espouse compulsory observance of their own religious convictions.  That today their bigotry happens to be aligned is purely an accidental. 

Perhaps the think that the Jehovahs Witness approach of no medical insurance because they don't believe in medical intervention is also correct and perfectly normal. Wake up and smell the roses America.  You being lead to destruction by religious bigots and corporate greed.