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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.

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?

It is what it fucking is. Calling racism out only makes it more prominent that it is still here and youre passive aggression of racism makes you a piece of shit. If wont stand up to racism you are a racist.

Cyber-bullying campaign launched after suicide of Akubra face Amy ‘Dolly’ Everett

This breaks my heart. Bullies never consider the consequences of their actions until something like this happens. Dolly, the suffering you experienced at the hands of these cowards will not have been in vain - we will see change happen, for you.

If you’re concerned about the excessive legal privileges afforded to religious institutions in Australia, please make your voice heard and make a submission to the government’s Religious Freedom Review.

The Review was established by conservative MPs in the hopes of gaining more rights to discriminate against LGBTI Australians since the legalisation of Marriage Equality, on the basis of religious belief.

the seal of confession is not as inviolable as you’re making it out to be. Reporting criminal matters is acceptable under canon law, it’s just not mandatory– it should be mandatory, and committees within the church itself were calling for that years ago.

“The seal of the confessional, or the relationship with God that’s carried through the priest and with the person, is inviolable,”

“It seems to me that you can and should disagree ethically with some jokes, but it’s a big step further to insist that they simply are not funny, and a very big step beyond that to deny them a right to exist.”