At work today, someone rather younger had said
of someone else “he’s not the messiah, you know”.
My boss, pretty close to my own age, muttered
quietly to himself “he’s just a naughty boy…”
Which got me to thinking about how awful it
would be to have a law that punished people mercilessly for making an innocent
comment that might be taken as offensive.
So it was amusing to hear on the radio, as I
headed home, what has happened to the enormously convoluted and downright
offensive new anti-discrimination law the federal government had proposed.
The Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said the
proposed laws have been sent back to his department to be reworked.
Raph Epstein did announce, though, that it’s
believed there will be bipartisan support for simpler changes to the existing
law to protect gay, lesbian, transsexual and intersex Australians.
[Guess the religious nuts will have to be
dealt with later or somewhere more practical.]
But 'Life of Brian,' hopefully, will be added as a clause that states, "Anyone quoting or acting out a line or scene from this movie will be automatically given a high five."
ReplyDeleteLOL Kath - you mean a sort of "socialise people by rewarding good behaviour rather than punishing bad?"
DeleteNow that would be novel!