Policy - The New United Churches

Me First! advocate for religious freedom. Anyone can formulate and promote any supernatural and moral code they wish to and submit it to the jury of public opinion. Every person can invent a personal religion for themselves for all we care. Pigs may fly. Religious tolerance is one thing. But government support of religion is another thing altogether. Consider all the current government practices regarding religious organisations:

- Exemption from anti-discrimination laws

- Non-profit tax-exemption status for religious charity organisations

- Massive tax-payer funding of religious schools and hospitals

Under a Me First! government all these benefits will only be given to a handful of state-sanctioned churches. If any existing religious groups wish to take advantage of these benefits then they will need to merge with a united church such as...

The Australian Monotheist Church: For all Christians, Jews and Muslims. You want all those schools and hospitals to keep getting government funding? Well then you will have to work with your fellow theists who think pretty much the same things anyway.

The Australian Polytheist Church: Everyone from strict Hindus to vague-and-fluffy Wiccans will have to work together in this church if they want government favorability. What fun that will be.

The Australian Dualist Church: Yes even the few thousand Zoroastrians in Australia can get in on the pork-barreling if they want!

With this policy Me First! will both make for more efficient state-church relations and allow Australians to more fully understand the common assumptions under which persons of religion labour.