FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s Freckles Declaration must be a contender for the most hilarious exercise in woke-corporate reality-mangling of the year. But the interesting thing about this Swiss-Italian grifter’s attempt to eke out woke virtue from such unpromising raw material – a World Cup host that doesn’t like homosexuality and is almost as keen on slavery as Antebellum Democrats – was not the bizarre anaphora but the righteous dénouement. The Western world has no authority to preach “moral lessons” to Qatar, Infantino insisted. He’s right. Sure, he was cynically finessing a PR embarrassment from the left – from the old staging ground of colonialism, exploitation, racism, etc – but even an expedient truth is potable to the parched. Qatar is wise to quarantine its citizens from the virus of obsession with homosexuality and is entitled to bounce carriers from the crowds. It would be preferable for the emir to protect the safety and human dignity of his subjects without exception, certainly. But if he and his counsellors believe debauchery inevitably follows legislated equalisation of sexual orientations – along with SSM, ‘gender transitioning’ and child mutilation – the shameful, ever-accumulating evidence proves they’re right.
Qatar should keep its chin up. It is 35 places above Ukraine on the Human Development Index and its reputation for harsh treatment of the gay is nowhere near as disgraceful as that newly admired nation’s. Qataris have a right to be angered by the Socceroos ordering the “decriminalisation of all same-sex relationships” in their country – casually overruling global Islamic orthodoxy – but not scolding Europe’s capital of old-time poofter-bashing. They should rest assured the team’s passion won’t last longer than it needs to, financially. Full disclosure: I’ve never watched a game of soccer in my life but I know that nothing better demonstrates the vulnerability of left-wing piety than the grievance-whispering that attends its quadrennial derby. The so-called woke – a new name for communists – don’t really care about talking down to the brown or colonising with sameness the obstinately diverse. One thing alone could have influenced non-Western nations to enact reforms intended to leave homosexuals in some degree of peace, free from violence: temperance. Instead, the rolling violence against marriage, the heterosexually-based family (there being no other kind), faith-based education and children’s innocence has caused most of the world’s peoples to garrison the inch before it becomes a mile. Who could blame them?
Can’t get through to the Shanahan article, but occasionally I am moved to ponder by the deafening silence in the wake of legislated ‘gay marriage’. The last time I even saw it mentioned was during the lockdown. ABC was running a news item about marriages being postponed by restrictions and to illustrate it they ran footage of what counts for them as a run-of-the-mill, everyday nuptial: two ‘women’, of whom the ‘bride’ would make Divine look like Audrey Hepburn. The crowd of freakish guests would have had Fellini calling on them to turn it down a notch.
Surgical.
Andrew Bolt has been doing a sterling job of pointing out the “rolling violence” against Christians.
Marriage, heterosexually-based family, faith-based education, children’s innocence, and Christianity in general – all sacrificed on the altar of creeping communism.
Angela Shanahan:
The day surgery ward in the Royal Queensland Children’s Hospital is plastered with posters promoting the trans agenda.
There’s a powerful LGBTIQ mafia running wild and unchecked within Queensland Health. Any staff member who is perceived to be not supportive risks being targeted with discrimination complaints.
In a competition full of virtue signaling pansies like Australia’s soccer team, who made a video about ‘human rights’, or the Poms who took a knee, or the Germans, who made some pro-homo gesture, we have this actual hero, who put his life in danger by saying this:
https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1594823842479775745?s=20&t=eDyn8GWUlrGx_2XIOtjreg
Folau is not a believing mormon. He was. A proper journalist would know that.
One of the worst aspects of so-called Christian influence was the gaoling of homosexuals. Please note neither formicators nor adulters were ever gaoled.
Leave Jesus to determine the fate of those who do not believe.
CL like others is blind to heterosexual debauchery. This was apparent to anyone well before same sex marriage or the advent of transgenderism
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Still unable to provide any actual data to support your assertions about coal and ruinable electricity generation? Colour me unsurprised.
Here’s another bit of the puzzle. The federal government is putting up around $20 billion towards the estimated $80 billion cost of the extra transmission lines needed to connect distributed ruinable generators to their customer base (lines that were unnecessary with coal fired generators). But the CSIRO estimates that the full cost of the additional transmission lines could be around $500 billion.
Please provide a full economic analysis of the possible impact of this infrastructure on electricity bills. Economics is your nominal specialisation, isn’t it? Or is your actual specialisation bovine excrement?
Both were crimes under either ecclesiastical or civil tort law in Europe for several hundred years. Oops.
Adultery is still a criminal offence in 16 US states and a misdemeanor in several.
Sodomy is contrary to nature (which is why it is one of the four sins that “cry to Heaven for vengeance” in Sacred Scripture). This set it apart from other sexual infractions. You would know this if you were more familiar with the Bible that Catholics painstakingly compiled long before the constipated Martin Luther strained at his toilet to find a way to run off with a nun.
Savour the anguish.
https://twitter.com/GuardianAus/status/1595585179426631680?s=20
Herr Flick! LOL.
Meanwhile, back at the football, the German team made sure to pose for a pre match photo with them all having hands clamped over their mouths in protest that their captain couldn’t virtue signal with his “one love” armband to show their woke solidarity with the alphabet people.
Japan, not on this bandwagon, promptly defeated them.
If Germany lose their next match to Spain, pretty much all over for this Cup. Out first round.
All over so quick but hey, they’ll always have that photo.
What were they doing to those poor ants?
pray give us examples people gaoled for fornication and adultery. you can’t oops
If either were gaoled there would not be enough prisons!
sin is sin. god deals with it not governments.
Woke is about values principally racism bit apparently is now to do with minorities as well. communism has to do with the public sector owning all the assets in a society. Marx said nothing about values but probably thought all humans were altruistic by nature. he was wrong.
A person who confuses or conflates the two is remarkably ignorant. .
Saudi Arabia beating The Argentinians!
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A person who confuses or conflates the two is remarkably ignorant. .
As ignorant as someone who makes multiple assertions about coal fired and ruinable electricity generation, and is unable to provide any real data to support those assertions? That “remarkably ignorant”?
The great absurdity of all this is that there is plenty of gaydom in the Gulf countries including Qatar and Saudi. Just ask any of the homos from Oz who have been and worked there. It is just behind closed doors. Every one knows about it. They, Islam, (similar to the orthodox Russians) do not want it to be promoted in public. They see the public sphere as the place where children learn about life, families and become stable adults. Pretty simple really.