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love, blood, life Join Date: Jan 2004
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Roman Popery Comes To Oz
With World Youth Day coming up basic rights and taxpayers money are being funneled away for sponsership of a nice religious event
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Public funds for religious events, it's on the level here and who knows, maybe some day I'll have no right to complain. |
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Will they be selling Pope on a Rope soap?
__________________Sort of funny story - WYD was in Toronto a few years ago, maybe 4? Anyway, so they had the open air mass at a huge park and obviously there were dozens of port-a-potties. So they emptied them out incorrectly after the weekend was over and the shit flooded a rather famous furniture store. The owner showed up on Monday and found himself knee-deep in feces. |
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I'm far from anti-religious per se, but frankly I don't see why any level of government should be providing a cent to this event. I really don't. At a guess though, I imagine it is probably based on some general sort of tourism/bringing in visitors to the state kind of thing. Just like they chip in support to the Indy car races or whatever.
As a somewhat lapsed (but not non-) Catholic, I have to say I find Cardinal Pell a fairly bad example of the faith. But not all of us belong to the Sydney/Melbourne axis, so they're welcome to him. |
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It would be disingenuous to argue that it goes against the secular principles of Australia given how unprincipled it is in practice.
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I think the revenues end up being pretty sizeable...not sure if that's a justification, but the local governments obviously love it.
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I'm not opposed to so-called "do not offend" laws, in theory, as the freedom to practice religion should mean freedom from harassment during religious events.
__________________However, considering how many "religious people" have felt free to protest and disrupt gay events any chance they've gotten, I find it very hard to feel sorry for them if people come up and disrupt their event. |
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