LGBTI threats against Mercure Hotel show ‘poison’ in public life

Posted on September 26, 2016 
Filed under Culture wars

Marriage RegisterThe poison in Australia’s public life has reached a point where a casual bystander now can fall victim to the tactics used to win a fight at all costs.

The latest sign of the illness came when employees at a Sydney hotel answered the telephone last week to hear threats of physical violence. Their crime? The Mercure Sydney Airport Hotel had taken a booking for a conference room for four Christian groups.

This was not an isolated threat. The phone calls kept coming. …

Threatening phone calls to a Sydney hotel may seem like a minor test of these principles, yet the affair is instructive all the same. When the campaign went too far there was a reluctance to call it out. Australian Marriage Equality refused to condemn it. The Greens have declined a request to comment. The early response from the ‘progressive’ side of politics was to deny the problem. The message is that rights are not always worth fighting for.

– from The Australian. (via SydneyAnglicans.net.)

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