Religious Thought Crime

Free speech is alive and well in Australia.

As long as you are willing to engage in lawfare to protect your right to say what you think. If you are not, then you'd best comply with the lefty zeitgeist and only repeat the approved lines.

That's the only conclusion we can draw from a recent case where an event organiser is now facing the Human Rights Commission for refusing to say a welcome to country.

Instead of paying homage to some pagan mumbo jumbo at his religious conference Church and State, organiser Dave Pellowe recited a Bible verse.

Here's what he quoted from the Christian holy book:

The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.
The world and all its people belong to him.

Pellowe later wrote on his blog, The Good Sauce.

“It is my custom at the beginning of meetings I convene to perform an acknowledgment that the country belongs to God only. Indeed, I quote Psalm 24:1 which contradicts the claims of Aboriginal religion that the spiritual entity it calls Country requires deceased ancestors to permit someone’s arrival or travel through it.”

He makes an important point.