Posts by James Caygill
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Best...PA System Thread...EVER....
Well at least for today anyway.
You've filled my friday with such joy - glimpses into Looking Glass Land such as these are rare moments to treasure. (although I readily ackowledge I probably couldn't stand more frequent exposure.)
love your work Keith.
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The issue I have with your position is that you want to keep religion private, yet your secular humanism is allowed to express itself publically. That's inconsistent.
But that is the society we live in. It is a secular society. Religion is private; in the sense that it is not public ie advanced by the state.
Yes, that means secular humanism wins. It wins because it is the least harm position. It treats all possible religious beliefs equally. You can lobby for your beliefs to take precedence, but I for one hope that supremacy never comes to pass, because it will automatically mean the denial of someone else, in a way that doesn't just have ramifications in the public sphere, but in the private as well.
You are free to practise whatever religion floats your boat, but the state should not expedite that over the rights of others to do the same thing.
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Well put Emma,
There can be no justification for being against gay marriage outside the covenant surrounding whatever peculiar set of beliefs about God people in their crazy wonderful diversity hold. Ewww is not a reason, it's a reaction.
Either we're all equal regardless of belief (everyone can marry and enjoy the rights of legal partnership between consenting adults),
or we ask the state to chose winners and losers based on someones beliefs (which presumably are allowed to overrule someone elses) - in which case we're closer to Papal/Sharia/GIant Pink Elephant of Death based laws than I thought.I'm not going to try and stop people believing silly things (although i enjoy arguing about them) -- but please can we keep the silly things outside the jurisdiction of the Crown.
And, yes political expedience plays a part, but I wish it played less of a part than it does.
Roll on Gay Marriage, principle based abortion law, a gender neutral Adoption Act to name just three that I encountered in the last govt off the top of my head...
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Dependent on the quality of the game of course, but:
"Only a mature drink could follow such a mature performance."
If we lose:
"At least the whisky's guaranteed to be mature"