JOE DE BRYUEN HAS MISUSED HIS POSITION AS FEDERAL SECRETARY OF THE SDA IN MAKING COMMENTS IN RELATION TO GAY RELATIONSHIPS
Mr. DeBryen should keep his personal prejudices and religious beliefs to himself and not use his position of SDA leadership for outrageous comments. Gay relationships are a private matter as are heterosexual relationships and neither group needs outside interference.
The SDA is made up of many hundreds of thousands members with differing lifestyles, points of view, religious beliefs, political beliefs and we have the right to these individual beliefs.
Mr. De Bryen has been making public statements of late condemning the concept of gay marriage (gay union) . These lifestyle decisions should be left to individuals as they do not impinge on others. The private part of our blog has received numerous complaints in relation to Mr. De Bryen’s statements. He should be aware that there are a number of gay people who are members of the SDA as there are in all parts of society.
The RRR SDA GROUP believes that all people have the right to individual views but does promote equality irrespective of age, colour, gender or sexual preference.
We are extremely disappointed with the other members of the SDA executive, staff and reps, some of which are enlightened and non-prejudicial in nature. Why do you allow Joe De Bryen to misuse his position in the SDA. Your voices have been silent on the issue which gives the impression that all the SDA leadership think as Joe De Bryen does.
Mr. De Bryen’s public statements that have been publicized, aired on radio, screened on T.V. are a discredit to the SDA. He should be aware that he is becoming the rent-a-mouth being used by the media whenever they need negative comments.
There are a number of petitions circulating in different states, in particular, Queensland, by a group of students promoting individual freedoms and condemning Joe De Bruyen.
The blogsite is available for all members to use, in this case, a message to the executive to restrict themselves to industrial issues and not personal, private matters.
Oppose Discrimination Support Civil Rights
ReplyDeleteWork towards providing a better working environment through understanding and equality.
As a Union the SDA must not be afraid of change.
As individuals we must not allow our own personal feelings and experiences come between what we know our Union must fight for.
As a Union we should fight to eliminate discrimination on the grounds of race, colour or national or ethnic origin, sex or gender, sexuality, transexuality, age, marital status, family responsibilities as a parent or carer, pregnancy, parenthood, breastfeeding, religion, trade union or employer association activity, religious belief or activity, political opinion, affiliation or activity, social origin and people with a disability or impairment, which can be physical, intellectual, psychiatric, sensory, neurological, learning disabilities, physical disfigurement or the presence in the body of disease causing organisms.
Discrimination occurs when someone receives less favourable treatment than another in the same position would have received.
Therefore, in fighting against discrimination the Union should support civil rights for all workers.
United we stand - Divided we fall