Excellent Marriage
On Thursday the 17th May the churches of Tasmania will be hosting an event at the Stanley Burbury Theatre entitled “Excellent Marriage”. According to their web site the event “aims to celebrate the importance and value of marriage for the Australian community”. They say “people from religious and non-religious backgrounds, young and old, are all invited to attend this free event” to“ show your support for marriage, and find out what makes an excellent marriage.”
One might have thought an excellent marriage would be filled with love, understanding, forgiveness, tolerance, and equality – amongst other things. But not so, at least according to the administrators of the associated Facebook page. In the spirit love, forgiveness, understanding, and equality I posted the following comment:
Pretty good I though. Hell, even my wife liked the post, so I must be doing something right. Although I would not bother visiting Facebook to find this comment, or any like it. Those good, loving, tolerant, understanding, crusaders for equality and human decency Jesus followers have deleted the posts and banned me from their treehouse. I might have a persecution complex, but it looks like our comments were targeted for some reason because the God loving comments remain.
I cannot say I am completely surprised at this behaviour given some of the people who will be speaking about the warm forgiveness blood of Jesus at this free event about marriage (not religious, shhh How dare you! ). For example, Margret “you can get married if you’re not a poofter” Court will be there with Guy “children deserve the right to grow up with at least the chance of both a Mum and a Dad” Barnett, and let’s not forget local Minister Campbell “Jesus was so into straight marriage he had two dads, and hung around with 12 guys and a few prostitutes” Markham.
Anyway, while you wait for this most excellent event you could endlessly watch the inspirational movie they have produced (see below), or visit their page and report it as hate speech. The decision is yours.
Tagged with: censorship, excellent, hypocrisy, Marriage
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