https://www.jwire.com.au/religious-v-secular-law-ask-rabbi/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Mon, 15 Aug 2016 08:30:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.jwire.com.au/religious-v-secular-law-ask-rabbi/#comment-188827 Mon, 15 Aug 2016 08:30:07 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=65485#comment-188827 Then there is the matter of section 18c of Part II of the Racial Discrimination Act. The way I see it, section 18c has nothing whatsoever to do with halachic law. If I’m ill-mannered enough to abuse someone, it says something about the anger, call it the ignorance, within me: it ought not to offend the other unless there is a smidgen of truth in what I say: it ought to be ignored. My inner ‘darkness’ (sounds melodramatic, but that is what it would be) is something for me to work on, not the government.

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