Who knew?

[uriel1972]

[link:https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-19/christchurch-shootings-referenced-by-mla-confession-laws/10917960|]
Sooo making priests comply with mandatory reporting is the same as gunning down 50 people in a mosque?

It's not targeting a group of people with extraordinary laws, it's making them obey the same laws as everyone else.

[Act_of_Reparation]

1. The Lemon Test

Does the law:

1) Have a legitimate secular purpose?
2) Not have the primary effect of advancing or inhibiting the practice of religion?
3) Not result in excessive entanglement of government and religion?


If the answer to these three questions is "yes", then the law is fair game. Or it should be. With this supreme court, who knows.

[Lordquinton]

2. When you think they can't go any lower

Comparing the murder of 49 people in a mosque to a law removing protections from priests who shelter child abusers...

[gtar100]

3. OMG Are these people real?

Mrs Jones used the Christchurch attacks, in which 50 Muslim worshippers were killed during Friday prayers, to further her point.

"The good people of faith who will be drawn into this are unnecessarily being demonised," Ms Jones said.

"It is a very bad precedent at a time when we have all been reminded how the targeting of particular religious communities can have devastating consequences."

Mrs Jones said the ACT Government's move to implement the recommendation of the royal commission into child sexual abuse was alienating.

"It is divisive the way this bill … this week of all weeks, should be picking apart the detail of someone's religious practice," she said.

That makes *no* sense in reference to the murder of Muslims by the white supremacist. Maybe her extra-curricular activities need to be looked into. Who argues against protecting children from sexual predators.

[Major Nikon]

4. We have a DUer who parrots out RCC talking points on why they should be exempt

Which according to child welfare experts inevitably leads to more child rapes.

It’s a helluva thing when you put the interests of the RCC above children abused by RCC officials who are then allowed to use legal exemptions to hide their evil.

[guillaumeb]

5. Attorney-General Gordon Ramsay said....

Attorney-General Gordon Ramsay said Mrs Jones' comments were out of step with the views of both her party and the community.