Gaol Time for NOT Making LGBTQ Films! By Mrs Vera West

     We are fast moving towards the society where being a cis/heterosexual, will become a crime, not yet, but we are on the track to this:
  http://caldronpool.com/christian-filmmakers-told-they-must-make-films-advocating-lgbtq-lifestyles-or-risk-huge-fines-and-even-jail-time/?fbclid=IwAR1SM0EOgYVLNKDhw1ZZriftrmi51EaTuSFB8-PKxBR9w38eCnFoYErrrO0

“Telescope Media Group is a Christian film company based in Minnesota. It’s a small family business, run by husband and wife team, Carl and Angel Larsen. Their company tagline reads, “We want to magnify Christ like a telescope.” Last year, a Minnesota court ruled that the couple were in violation of the state’s Human Rights Act which requires them to abandon their faith by using their services to create films celebrating homosexuality and same-sex marriage. According to the Alliance Defending Freedom, “State officials have categorically, publicly, and repeatedly threatened to prosecute expressive business owners who decline to create speech promoting same-sex marriage. Steep penalties exist for violating the law, including payment of a civil penalty to the state; triple compensatory damages; punitive damages of up to $25,000; a criminal penalty of up to $1,000; and even up to 90 days in jail.” Jeremy Tedesco, ADF Senior Counsel, warned, “The same government that can force them to violate their faith and conscience can force anyone of us to do the same.”

     Here is a video about this:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v-NVkrvvEw

     That was America, coming our way, and here is Australia, where religious schools in Canberra will no longer be able to reject gay teachers:
  https://www.canberratimes.com.au/politics/act/andrew-barr-to-start-to-close-discrimination-loophole-next-week-20181024-p50bkl.html?fbclid=IwAR3lEfeVtMxufIcPd9oyg8WV4O1U7rbCQcDEdXIRVYZKrS2OKOGbLuj7Y_w

“ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr will move to strip religious schools of the legal right to reject gay teachers, reforms he says will go further than the Morrison government promise to better protect gay students. Mr Barr will tabled a draft bill next Thursday to amend the ACT's discrimination laws to prevent discrimination against students and teachers on the basis of sexuality, gender identity, race, pregnancy or intersex characteristics. The changes would be modelled on Tasmania's discrimination laws and would resolve a "legal loophole" created by the conflict between the Discrimination Act 1991 and the Human Rights Act 2004, Mr Barr said. It follows the leaked recommendations of the Ruddock review of religious freedoms, commissioned after the same-sex marriage postal vote, which recommended entrenching an exemption for religious schools in some state and territories' discrimination laws in Commonwealth legislation.”

     Does anyone protect religious freedom? Well, of course, Islam is protected, but what about Christianity? It sure is a pathetic way for the grand tradition to end.
  https://www.smh.com.au/national/protecting-religious-freedoms-will-not-lead-to-discrimination-20180823-p4zzbc.html

“If Christians, and religious people more generally, were to withdraw from their volunteering, philanthropy, welfare, caring or advocacy roles, Australia would be greatly impoverished. A 2018 study found that Australians who become religious are more likely to be donors and volunteers than those who continue through childhood and adulthood without faith, a process that was calculated to contribute an additional $481 million to Australia's economy. The agnostic Australian majority generally recognises this contribution. Sociologist Hugh Mackay noted that 88 per cent of non-Christian Australians want churches to stay in their suburbs, realising that the churches foster community and do a great deal of important work. Christians do not plan to withdraw. But they fear, with some reason, that their ability to contribute in good conscience may be affected by secular activists who want to remove faith from the public square, end public funding and tax exemption and silence the Christian viewpoint.”

     But, maybe it is time for Christians to go on strike; we should  allow massive suffering and misery to engulf secular Australia, which seems to treat us with utter contempt. Sorry, poor and miserable, we have  compassion fatigue. It will end when we get due respect.