Not directly, no. I am positive that they would make no such intentional action. But seemily by their trade practices in the US in purchasing tomatos and salads for their US restaraunts, they make it near impossible for workers in the field to make a fair day’s pay, even giving rise to a new era of slavery in Florida.
http://go.sojo.net/campaign/Fair_Wages/explanation
The above link gives options for affirmative action.
While it was fresh it my thinking, the following email appeared in my inbox.
You might like to fill out this survey and let others know of its existence.
They are obviously hoping for an overwhelming anti-Christian result but if
heaps of Christians answer the survey, the result will upset them! I wonder
if they’d still publish it?Regards
Col Stringer
This riled me a little (only a little) because I think, “yeah – let’s show these people that we really are the unintelligent sheep that they think we are, baa-ing in chorus as we tick all the ‘right’ boxes on their survey en-masse. I’m sure that will prove a point.
Anyway, I went across to the survey with the intention of giving an intelligent response, but found that there was really only two options – answer as a humanist ‘shut-the-f-up you religious nut’ type person, or as one of the sheeple Col wants me to be. No in-between. So I wrote the following in the provided comment box.
This survey is very difficult to answer if you are Religious but are not necessarily politically conservative. There is a wide gap between answering yes and no, and ‘unsure’ is not the appropriate answer in most cases as I am quite sure of my beliefs.
For example - my definition of ‘Separation of Church and State’ - which is that no one faith should have authority over government, that government should not interfere with religion, but those with religious conviction should be able to have their say in the public and political arena, just as those who don’t - would differ with the inference in question 22.
I think ethics can be taught alongside religion, as could evolution and intelligent design. Why make our children ignorant of spiritual possibility?
Of course if a politician has spiritual beliefs, then they should come into play in politics, as long as those motivations were put forward before being elected.
I am a Christian (you could say a minister in fact) seriously doubting conservative politics. I’m tiring of the divisive and unintelligent issues it puts forth in the guise of religion, and the ignorance on their part towards real religious issues such as justice, poverty relief, environmental conservation and peace instead of war, but such biased and clearly anti-faith sentiments that you are clearly trying to raise with this questionnaire make it very difficult to vote otherwise.
If this really is a survey aiming to hear my point of view, then please - do hear it.
I wonder if they did. Is there any room in Australian politics for thinking Christians? Hmmm.
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