"As religious organisations, churches could qualify for the religious organisation exemption... to comply with doctrinal belief or avoid conflicting with the strongly held beliefs of a significant number of the religion’s followers."

Embarrassing, huh?

Yes, I will hang my head in shame at my intolerant beliefs - until you tweak the law a bit to load me into the cattle car, that is. "Now boarding for the Family (values) Camps!" Yes, soon enough there will be something to be shamed about here.

Feeling persecuted for persecuting another minority? That's a double negative ;-)

But, Hugh, you've been around here long enough to know that gay people are really just out to destroy the family. I mean, a family is one mother, one father, and kids. We got rid of that old fashioned extended family years ago, and good thing too, since that whole "my sibling is almost as much a parent to my kids as I am", that's just pagan or something, and a single parent, depending on how they got that way, is either a valiant father, an object of pity, or a slut. Besides, it's oppressive to make them acknowledge our existence, much less humanity, which we don't have anyway, we're no better than animals, sure even bishops say that. Even the Pope knows we can't have a normal relationship with anybody. I mean, if they acknowledge our humanity, they might actually have to show some compassion, and it's a hard enough job pretending to do that, it's just inhuman to expect them to do it for real. And if we resist being thrown into the cattle cars, that's just us persecuting them by refusing to be shipped off to the camps. It's quite clear really. You'll see how oppressive we gay people are to them, as soon as they take the boot off your face. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go burn a pinch of incense to the Emperor, then I have three nuclear families to destroy before lunch. I think I might get married this afternoon. By all accounts, that seems to be the best way to make the rest of heterosexual marriages head to the divorce courts and their kids take up the life of the homeless panhandling drug addict. Sorry. It's a Friday, and my sarcasm resistance is at a low ebb.

LOL

Thanks Ford.
Hugh