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

 

[killtaker1993]

"For one man to love another, Vyvyan, is not ****y. It's actually very beautiful. It's only when they start touching each others bottoms that it gets ****y" - Rik The Basterd

 

[nobbyiscool]

Correct

Anyone who changes their club must be viewed as having nil integrity

I'm going to call an exception on this... Tasmania has already kind of become my primary AFL team, and having grown up there for 25 years I think that's an acceptable changing of teams.

 

[PhatBoy]

I'm not. It's more or less not directed at you and to be honest, I worded the post you're quoting wrong and was out of context so I'll delete it anyways.

No worries

 

[Foucault1989]

Helping people, getting them fed, housed, employed.

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

God isn't real. It's a fantasy. Why can't they be charitable without brainwashing people?

 

[VinnieB]

Cool. So you'd be totally fine with a pro-abortion gay lobbyist being the principal of a Catholic school, I take it?

Have you listened to Thorburn? He said he doesn’t necessarily agree with all the teachings of the church just like most Catholics don’t either.

Otherwise, every Catholic should resign from their positions in the AFL as the teachings state no abortion and homosexuality is not accepted.

 

[Ghost Patrol]

Cool. So you'd be totally fine with a pro-abortion gay lobbyist being the principal of a Catholic school, I take it?

George Pell likes this.

 

[VinnieB]

God isn't real. It's a fantasy. Why can't they be charitable without brainwashing people?

I’ll pray for you.

 

[PhatBoy]

That's the approach I take when reading your posts

A Tigers fan lecturing other people about reality.

This really is the end of days.

 

[OniAu]

i dont really care if you want to have a crack at him because of what came about following the royal commission. That's reasonably fair game.

Saying the bloke should be sacked, based on his personal views of a church he goes too, when he openly says he does not agree with all of them is just about being woke.

How you goin buddy? You ok ?

 

[Inspecta Gadget]

Conservatism really is jumping the shark into cult like or quasi theocratic fascism (atm).

It's kind of wild.

Mate neither side of the political spectrum is well adjusted

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

Would assume the second candiate for the ceo role will take his spot?

 

[PhatBoy]

God isn't real. It's a fantasy. Why can't they be charitable without brainwashing people?

why can’t you accept the good works of others without it having to be deemed ‘acceptable’ by your own parameters.

It’s the exact stance you’re moaning about.

 

[Orange Agent]

Are we spinning a wheel to see what happens next?

 

[Darksidepoints]

He was personally singled out by a Royal Commission and then given the arse by the NAB.

All the other putrid stuff aside, why would you want him anywhere near your club is beyond me.

 

[PhatBoy]

No, no exceptions .

As for your generalisation about religion becoming more inclusive that is laughable.

Just because something isn’t reaching a metric or standard you would deem satisfactory does not mean it is not closer to that standard than it has been in the past

 

[Toump Ass]

Are we now vetting peoples religious views for thier suitability for a role ?

I don't think anyone would care if he held these views, but as a senior member of an organisation that actively promotes these views, that's an issue, clearly.

 

[mellowyellow]

A Tigers fan lecturing other people about reality.

This really is the end of days.

You're in no position to lecture others on 'reality' when you invoke fictitious spaghetti monsters

 

[King Huskii]

I don't get why people are so hell bent on trying to control other people's lives.

I have zero interest in who is homosexual or not. I also couldn't give a shit if they pray to God or not.

It's simply not my business.

This now ex CEO probably has darker secrets than majority of the public. I wonder if God actually likes him representing the church?

 

[nobbyiscool]

2. Feminism and gay rights being championed at the same time as trans rights (eventually the ideologies that protect single-sex spaces and same-sex attraction will collide headfirst with an ideology that insists gender identity is more important than biological sex).



Albanese won by explicitly opposing wokeness. Because as an intelligent politician he knows where the real middle of the Australian public is and he's smart enough to not have his world view dictated by whatever trends on twitter. But many journalists and business people don't know anything about the world outside their echo chamber cocoons.

You need to stop watching Sky news and join us in the real world.

I don't even know where to begin with this mental gymnastics that draws completely bullshit inferences from unrelated information.

The irony of you talking about echo chambers while parroting sky after dark is out there though.

 

[nipst@r]

David Barham cannot possibly continue as President.

This was the most incompetant signing you could possibly imagine. In the most important position in the Organisation. At the most critical time in the Club's history.

Just diabolical stuff how he could officially appoint a CEO who can't last 24 hours for the most obvious reasons imaginable.

Be gone Barham. You can't recover from this. A laughing stock.

Most critical time in clubs history?

Plenty of money, plenty of cap space, young list and we have been worst run club in 20 years so couple of good decisions going forward and we will be fine.

Just need to get rid of Sheedy and dodo.

Ceo Chose to stand down from ceo rather than church role speaks volumes of where priorities and values lie.

Good on him for sticking by that but ultimately right decision to resign.

He was in role for a day, the fact already gone is embarrassing but ultimately has no long lasting impact.

Maybe miss some recruits but who was coming to ess anyway this year.

 

[Slartibartfast]

Just because something isn’t reaching a metric or standard you would deem satisfactory does not mean it is not closer to that standard than it has been in the past

Well tell me then?
Is it fair that religious schools can hire and fire on the basis of a teachers beliefs????

 

[Wosh]

Sweet Jesus


Sorry, too soon?

 

[Dusty4]

Cool. So you'd be totally fine with a pro-abortion gay lobbyist being the principal of a Catholic school, I take it?

What an ignorant comment. Essendon football club is not a church or a religion. It's a football club / corporate organisation that is meant to include and accept all walks of life. Thorburn wasn't enforcing his beliefs or views on anyone at the club but is being vilified for following a religion.

 

[King Huskii]

underrated post

Off topic but Non Phixion are one of my fave hip hop groups. Bill Gore and Sabac are epic!

 

[Bostonian]

Probably a bit late making that appointment…

I laughed.

But then again I have a sense of humour chuckles.