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Andrew Thorburn Resigns Because, Everyone Gets to Be Offended Except the Christian · The Slippery Slope

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  Hi, I'm Jeff Allen and thank you for listening to the slippery
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  slope. So yesterday my episode was
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  about Andrew thorburn and how he is.
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  Now, the chief executive for was the chief executive for the
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  estimate football club, and he was being criticized because of
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  his association with a bible-based Christian church,
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  because that church Has teachers that abortion is wrong and also
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  homosexuality is a sin just like other sexual immorality.
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  He was being criticized because of his association with that
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  church and people were obviously being offended.
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  Lots of people are offended and including the state premier of
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  Victoria Andrew Daniels. So it appears that and Ruth or
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  Burns appointment as the CEO of Essen and football club has
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  lasted a whole 24 hours. Maybe not even that long.
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  This headline came through from the guardian says Victorian
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  opposition, leader calls and Auburn's resignation as essendon
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  SEO, ridiculous. So Victoria is opposition.
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  Ali that Matthew guy has described and Ruth or Burns
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  resignation ads as essendon essendon chief executive over
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  links to a church, which can them's homosexuality and
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  abortion as ridiculous. So, thorburn was appointed to
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  the role on Monday, but resigned on Tuesday afternoon after
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  sermons by the city on a hill Church of Which he is a term
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  chairman with made public. Of course someone had to go in
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  there and share these sermons and besides that it would have
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  been hard. I don't even understand how they
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  would have found out. I mean it's not like he was the
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  past or he had some kind of you know on the some kind of role
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  that was on the stage or anything.
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  He worked very much behind the scenes.
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  Anyway keep going on. It says the sermons likened.
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  Abortion to a concentration camp and included claims.
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  That practicing homosexuality is a sin.
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  It's funny here because it says practicing homosexuality is a
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  sin and has in quotation marks and it says these are claims
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  views which the premier. Daniel Andrews said were
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  absolutely appalling. But like I said yesterday, when
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  the church teaches from the Bible, people are going to be
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  offended. The Bible is offensive to a
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  world that does not want to hear the truth because the word of
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  God divides truth from the lies. Anyway I'll keep going on.
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  It says the football club on Tuesday said thorburn felt he
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  could not serve in both roles and had offered his resignation
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  despite not holding the same personal views as his church.
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  I'm a little disappointed that he that he was saying that he
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  doesn't hold the same personal views as his church.
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  Because as far as I could tell, they would just biblical views
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  anyway. I'll keep going on.
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  It says, on Wednesday. The opposition, the opposition
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  leader criticized, the premiere for weighing into the debate,
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  which he said encroached too far into private religious views.
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  He said what are we now? Ben People from going to church
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  Banning people from going to a synagogue, Banning people from
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  going to a mosque. Where have we got?
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  This is ridiculous. This what guy told 3aw radio he
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  says football clubs can hire whom they choose?
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  I don't see if I was the premier.
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  Why I would be telling people who they can hire and fire and
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  why would you so a day later press conference in Add water
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  near Victoria's South West Coast.
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  Guy said he would not speak for other people when asked how the
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  lgbtq+ community would be feeling.
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  It says, we've got laws in place in the state to protect everyone
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  from hate speech and intolerance and that's a good thing he said
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  but at the end of the day who organizations hire and fire is
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  up to them and I just don't see why politicians particularly the
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  premiere have to be. Overlord or commentator on
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  everyone else's organization. So at a press conference in
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  Melbourne, on Wednesday. The premier stood by his earlier
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  comments and remember this is Premier, Daniel Andrews.
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  The he's very very LGBT iq+ affirming very much so.
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  And he like I said, during the lockdowns he was very much.
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  The churches need to stay locked down.
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  However we can open up an lgbtq Dirty Hall Community Center
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  because we need to be concerned about that Community, but screw
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  the churches. They don't need to open.
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  So he goes on. He says, Who runs the foot
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  essendon football club is a massive for the board but I was
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  asked question and I simply put it, put to you, my
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  long-standing, consistent view. Daniel Andrews said he says,
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  I've had a long-standing view that termination Services as an
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  abortion services are A Private Matter between a woman and her
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  doctor and I will speak out against people who seek to
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  intrude on that. So heaven, Forbid, anyone speak
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  out against abortion. He also says, what's more when
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  it comes to rampant homophobia, the remember he describes this
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  as homophobia, but this is not homophobia because all it is
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  doing is teaching the Bible teaching.
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  The Bible that is all his doing. However, the teachings of the
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  Bible and now described as a phobia, Discrimination bigotry.
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  Go on and says he says, when I lead the pride March, every
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  year, I do that with a sense of genuine concern and support and
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  commitment to make sure every lgbtiq plus.
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  Victorian is safe respected and valued.
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  Andrew says that same-sex attracted young.
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  People were more likely to take their own lives or self harm
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  than the broader. Victorian community.
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  Aditi. And let's not lose perspective
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  about this. You saying it's not about who
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  runs a football club, this is about issues that are much much
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  bigger than that easy. So the Victorian Liberal Party,
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  they have come under Fire in recent months for pre-selecting,
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  conservative candidates, including the anti-abortion and
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  safe, schools, critic morandini, who replaced, conservative, MP
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  burning Finn, who was Hurry antiabortion.
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  Also they pre-selected Renee Heath, whose family is connected
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  to the conservative City. Builders Church, which has been
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  accused of encouraging members of its congregation to take part
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  in externally, run gay conversion practices and that
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  was she was selected pre-selected for the East and
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  Victoria region. Now, for those of you that don't
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  know it Victoria. It is the bringing legislation
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  that the any church or any organization that would
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  encourage. People were all would even offer
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  to pray for someone who is gay. It was homosexual and pray for
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  that situation that person can be charged with an offence in
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  Victoria what the Victorian government is actually, our Lon
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  Is the right to practice your Christian faith.
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  They have made illegal to pray for people if someone asks for
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  help and that person is in that person as a part of the lgbtq
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  community and someone else sees them praying for them.
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  They can be they can be reported to police.
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  They can be charged and that's where Victoria is going.
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  That is what the premier Deng. Niall Andrew stands for.
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  So in it, goes on to say, in this article that an ABC
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  investigation published in September, bam, dozens of
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  Liberal Party members, particularly in gippsland had
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  recently left the party to Jutsu concerns about infiltration by
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  Church groups. As I said yesterday, the Bible
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  is offensive. It is offensive to people who do
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  not want to hear the truth who do not want a light Shone on On
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  their own sinful actions, unfortunately, as loving, and as
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  caring as as Christians, try to be.
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  When discussing the truth about God and about the in about this
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  world, people will still be offended and I personally
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  believe that Australia is on a path, especially Victoria.
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  It'll if it happens, it'll happen in Victoria first where
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  the We'll eventually be banned, where certain teachings within
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  the Bible? Will definitely be banned.
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  Pastors will be restricted in what they can teach publicly
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  anything to do with teaching on immorality.
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  Sexual immorality will be outlawed.
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  I believe this is where we are going in Australia.
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  It'll come in Victoria first. I think people keep getting
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  offended. You know, I was thinking about
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  this every day I watch TV and even just Tan.
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  Even just on a normal TV show, like something like the project,
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  you know, which is just a show that's on, at 6:30 in the
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  evening and sinews discussion program.
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  I hear the name of the name of Jesus used as a swear word here.
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  This constantly and yet as offensive and as disgusting as I
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  think, this is no one. Complains, no one says anything,
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  it's just used all the time. And yet Christians are supposed
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  to just accept this and but isn't it funny how no other
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  community has to accept anything?
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  Any kind of biblical views. Everyone is allowed to be
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  offended by the Bible and by biblical views but Christians
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  are not allowed to be offended by anyone else.
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  Australia is on a path where we will one day, see teachings in
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  the Bible being banned. Stop being offended Australia.
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  That's my opinion. Thank you for listening to the
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  slippery slope.