Posted on 10/12/2022 6:31:25 PM PDT by marshmallow
In a statement, the former NAB CEO said he was forced to step down from Essendon because of his role as a church chairman. “I was being required to compromise beyond a level that my conscience allowed,” he said.
Mr Thorburn said people should be able to hold different views on complex personal and moral matters, and be able to live and work together, even with those differences, and always with respect.
A day after he was appointed to run the club he supported since childhood, Mr Thorburn resigned after it emerged he was chairman of a church that preached views on homosexuality and abortion.
Essendon president Dave Barham said the club acted swiftly to review revelations that the City on a Hill church posted a 2013 sermon to its website that said acting on same-sex attraction was “a sin” and another likening abortion to concentration camps.
He said those views did not align with Essendon’s values as a safe, inclusive, diverse and welcoming club for all.
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Australia is Lost.
Orwell 1984 is everywhere.
So inclusive we have to fire you
Amazing that they don’t see how far from inclusive they are.
The Left always prattles on about the evils of “McCarthyism”. Here they are recreating that very system that they mythologize about.
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