News Andrew Thorburn is retaining legal counsel for wrongful termination by the Essendon Football Club. NOW WITH BIG BANGS

[Chief]

Posts arguing about the validity of transgender people and abortion and all that stuff are being moved. Stick to the topic please.

Thread bans will start tonight for people who cannot stay on topic.

Essendon Football Club CEO Announcement.

Further news:

• New Bombers boss responds to backlash after appointment that ‘spits in the face of every queer Essendon member’
• New Essendon CEO, Andrew Thorburn, involved in church expressing homophobic, anti-abortion views
• Victorian Premier Andrews slams absolutely appalling views of new Essendon CEO'S church
• New Dons CEO to lead 'inclusive' club despite divisive church links

• Thorburn resigns... Essendon Club Statement
• AFR article - paywalled

 

[windyhill]

sheedy “ I may or may not have voted for him”

 

[nobbyiscool]

Something I've often wondered...

What does it take for different people to give up on their club? Does abject, gross incompetence do it? Does the "cancellation" of Thorburn - and the associated notion that they listened to their members - undo the stupidity of yesterdays announcement?

Man I think this would've been a weird couple of days - following on from a very weird decade - to be a Bombers fan.

 

[gouki88]

Helping people, getting them fed, housed, employed.

Yeah it’s just awful what my mum’s church is doing in my home town.

Without the church they'd just be left to starve and be homeless? What a crock - people don't need ghoulish institutions to be good to one another.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

You missed my point. 100% agree with you but in this case he is being cherry picked. Why haven't other religious groups been held to same account?

The catholic church made a past time of raping kids for decades.

The bible is the greatest fiction every written.

I think because he is head of the church and they have more extreme views than most.

 

[PhatBoy]

!!!!

I love how "religious beliefs" has become some kind of trojan horse to protect a vast array of all-round shithouse beliefs.

But it seems fine to ridicule anyone who believes in a higher power just because you don’t.

 

[deedog2]

I keep tellin' ya, I only just hired Thorburn here

Aha..and where are the gays?

Round back...oops!

 

[demondavey]

The vast majority of people wouldn't know what someone's sexual preference was unless the person never shut up about telling everyone what it is.

Have never ever met a gay person who has done this. Ever. It’s only people like you who have a major problem with homosexual people that think they carry on about their sexuality.

You’re just looking for an excuse to be outraged.

 

[gouki88]

But it seems fine to ridicule anyone who believes in a higher power just because you don’t.

Yes.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

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[demondavey]

But it seems fine to ridicule anyone who believes in a higher power just because you don’t.

There’s no such thing as a higher power. It’s a ****en myth.

 

[SunshineBoy]

Thorburn is chairman of City on a Hill, a church that condemns homosexuality and is staunchly anti-abortion.
What the hell were Essendon thinking?
The AFL is really starting to stink.

You forced his hand , well done

 

[Slartibartfast]

Helping people, getting them fed, housed, employed.

Yeah it’s just awful what my mum’s church is doing in my home town.

Ahh, so its Ok they are homophobic as long as they feed the homeless (and get tax deductions)
did you mention how they have proactively hid the peopdophiles for decades and allowed them to continue in a new parish ??

 

[FrustratedTiger]

The era of hiding behind a church to excuse your beliefs is over. All religions. If they are your beliefs, you have to own them, and live with the consequences

 

[Off Tap]

Are they the ones giving the sermon???

No but happily to regularly attend and sit among people with homophobic views.

 

[NaturalDisaster]

Nobody is taking issue with a “right of centre” politic. The issue is with being homophobic. To try and equate the two is telling

Yep

There are plenty of conservative minded people who manage not to be total bigots.

 

[PhatBoy]

Without the church they'd just be left to starve and be homeless? What a crock - people don't need ghoulish institutions to be good to one another.

Yes without my mum’s church they would be as it is the only major community organisation that does the work it does in my home town.

Ghoulish institution?

Have a listen to yourself - you are literally being all the things you’re railing against: judging someone or something based on nothing more than an embedded view rather than on its merits.

It’s the exact same sort of hypocrisy that religious people themselves are often accused and guilty of

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

But it seems fine to ridicule anyone who believes in a higher power just because you don’t.

Yes because it's not based on facts or evidence. It's all made up .

 

[PhatBoy]

No but happily to regularly attend and sit among people with homophobic views.

Have you even declined to go to an eagles game despite knowing that members of the congregation were probably racist or homophobic

 

[Dazb86]

Lmfao

 

[projectv]

But it seems fine to ridicule anyone who believes in a higher power just because you don’t.

They're welcome to hold any beliefs they wish. Those beliefs just need to stay the hell away from power.

 

[PhatBoy]

Yes because it's not based on facts or evidence. It's all made up .

To you it is.

In a sense everything is made up. Who made up numbers?

 

[11kgm]

And resigned bit bloody harsh

 

[NeutralFan]

Am for the religion, homophobe downfall inspired dopamine.

 

[gouki88]

Yes without my mum’s church they would be as it is the only major community organisation that does the work it does in my home town.

Ghoulish institution?

Have a listen to yourself - you are literally being all the things you’re railing against: judging someone or something based on nothing more than an embedded view rather than on its merits.

It’s the exact same sort of hypocrisy that religious people themselves are often accused and guilty of

You have an incredibly pessimistic view of people if you think that then.

Mother of all false equivalences! If you think they're the same thing, then there's not much else to say. I get that you're wounded because of personal involvement, but that doesn't actually give your opinion special weight.

 

[Hazardinho]

Time for Adam Saad to resign, his religion stones gays and oppresses women.

Can we not joke about topics like this!