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Queensland Premier Steven Miles read 1 Timothy 3, screwed up his face, and said, “Pffft!”

The push to replace Christianity with State-imposed relativism is gathering pace in Queensland.

That’s really just a fancy way of saying the Labor Government wants to destroy Christianity.

Premier Steven Miles will giggle all the way to the gates of hell — and beyond — if he and the demonic hordes comprising his cabinet are not removed from government.

October should not so much be an election as an exorcism.

State Control

Miles’ hopelessly inept administration, not content with destroying the economy and setting fire to law and order, is now intent on banning religious organisations from sacking staff whose lifestyles violate Christian ethics.

In Queensland “my truth” must be protected, and “your truth” must be recognised, but upholding the God-honest truth will be criminalised.

Here’s what they are proposing:

In effect, new laws outlined in The Australian will make it illegal for a Christian organisation to discriminate (by which I mean discipline) a teacher or student who violates deeply held Christian ethics.

A teacher who violated Christian sexual mores — such as having an affair or coming out as gay — would be protected from getting the sack.

And while a school could refuse to take on a gay or trans student, the school could not expel a student who came out as gay or trans after being enrolled.

But the Labor laws go even further than that.

Church Employees

According to legal experts, the new bill would prevent religious organisations from sacking or disciplining ministers who violated Biblical sexual ethics.

While the church says, ‘If you want to commit sexual sin, no one is stopping you, but just understand you cannot be in church leadership,’ the government says: we don’t recognise sin, or apostolic leadership for that matter, so you or anyone must be able to lead in the church.

Steven Miles read 1 Timothy 3, screwed up his face and said, “Pffft!”

The code of conduct that most Christian organisations require staff to uphold upon accepting a position would become worthless. And it would become illegal to uphold Biblical standards of leadership.

The Government is effectively saying that Christian organisations have no authority to require that their distinctives are recognised or respected.

Christianity and its teachings would be made subordinate to those of the State. And how will they do it? By using discrimination to stop what they claim is discrimination.

Idiots.

Impending Doom

Freedom of association is everyone’s right in a democracy. Religious schools promote a particular ethos and worldview for those who want it. But how can religious schools do that if there are people working in them who hold a contradictory ethos and worldview?

Despite all evidence to the contrary, Miles is not completely stupid. He knows exactly what he is doing.

He cannot ban religion, so instead, he will make it impotent and unable to reproduce.

Want to know just how much the Labor Government hates people of faith?

They are proposing to transform religious schools into public schools in all but name, and then pay just 75 per cent of the cost of sending your children there.

I can see the day coming when Christian schools will just close their doors and walk away, leaving state governments to take up the sudden influx of hundreds of thousands of students into an already underfunded, under-resourced and failing state school system.

If you think our kids are struggling to learn now, just keep pushing this absurd intrusion into Christian education and see what real disaster looks like.

Disaster seems to be the Labor way.

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Originally published at The James Macpherson Report.

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