Remember Atheism is also a religion and wants to be the world religion.

October 4:

The full Report into Religious Freedoms in Australia has been leaked and, beside the part about allowing schools to continue discriminating against students and teachers, it's pretty boring!

A 17 year-old sent to a psych hospital where electrodes were attached to her genitals.

A Jewish trans woman whose rebbe told her to move far away to somewhere nobody knew her, and barred her from attending her son's bar mitzvah unless she cross-dressed as a man.

A Christian school student who was given seven sessions of chaplaincy counselling, without her parent's knowledge, to try and dissuade her from pursuing gender transition.

"Rushing" is the operative word - the new laws may not cover transgender students and students of same-sex parents, and they definitely will not protect LGBT+ teachers and other staff members.

For many former-Muslims in the West, coming out as a non-believer can threaten their familial relationships, their social lives and even their safety.

A growing population of Muslims in Australia also means we have a growing population of ex-Muslims, many of them young, who need our support.

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan tells a six year-old girl that she would receive honours if, "God willing", she was "martyred" in battle.

That religious rhetoric isn't a coincidence - Turkey has very quickly turned to theocracy under Erdogan's rule, with the government and it's "Religious Affairs" department recently banning teaching evolution in schools, barring all public LGBTI celebrations, and advocating for child marriage.

Do you live in Victoria and believe in Reason, Common-Sense, Human Rights and Civil Liberties?

Do you believe Churches should pay their fair share of Tax? That Cannabis should be Legalised and Taxed? Are you Sex and Sex-Worker Positive? Believe in Equality for all, regardless of Sexuality and Gender Identity?

If this sounds like you and you’d like to directly make a difference, Reason Australia is looking for candidates for the upcoming Victorian State Election.

It has its own banks, superannuation fund, insurance company, university, news service and telecommunications provider. It owns $30 billion of property, employs 220,000 people and educates 20% of children. Its bank has over $2 billion in assets.

Ok, I don’t know where to begin unpacking this much stupid. Let's start with why the hell are people giving a platform to this knuckle-dragging neanderthal in the first place?

Secondly, Mundine said: "If we were to live in a society, just like in Aboriginal culture, that homosexuality is forbidden and you do it and the consequences are capital punishment or death, you think you are going to do it? Or think twice about doing it?"

A few anti-LGBTI Indigenous figures have said similar things in the past, but the fact remains that we just don't really know what the traditional stance on same-sex attraction is in most Aboriginal cultures because they've been so heavily influenced by Christian ministry over the last few hundred years. In Mundine's case, he is a devout Muslim and he has quite obviously let that bias his views on "traditional" Aboriginal culture.

Which brings me to my final comment: Mundine said "If you are going to be gay, do it behind closed doors, that is how it used to be in the olden days."

Oh. You mean the "olden days" when you had no rights, were treated as part of the flora and fauna, and would have been kidnapped from your family as a child? Or just the aspects of the olden days that support your own fucked up homophobic views?