Scott Morrison’s “religious freedom” platform has little to do with the right to pray, it has everything to do with the right to discriminate and undo what the country voted for. Do we need the unqualified right to be bigots, the right to openly discriminate against same sex couples and to denigrate any marriage that does not have as “a fundamental feature” knocking out kids? Prime Preacher Scott Morrison thinks we do. He holds this belief so firmly that he is championing legislation that green lights this style of bigotry. This debate is being carefully framed by the likes of Morrison as being about “religious freedom” when that’s not what the proposed law change is about at all. It’s not protecting the right to practice your belief as a Buddhist, Taoist, Christian, Muslim or, heaven forbid, atheist. The “religious freedom” he wants to protect is limited to the freedom to discriminate against LGBTIQ people. People are still recovering from the pain of the marriage equality survey which subjected LGBTIQ people to months of debate about their essential humanity. At no point were there any legal constraints on those who used this national debate to insult, belittle and debase others […]
