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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black">Dear all,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black">You are invited to attend the next Macquarie Philosophy Work-in-Progress Seminar on Tuesday 10 October 2023 from 1:00 to 2:00pm.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black">Attend in-person at 25B Wally's Walk, Room B603.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Attend online:
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/d7WYCyojxQT7OB15KCZsuH1?domain=macquarie.zoom.us">https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/83678569910?pwd=SG4wWHpQa0h1aEFEdzBRUUM0dXRKdz09</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Password: seminar<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Speaker:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Dr Louise Richardson-Self (University of Tasmania)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Title:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Questioning Religious Freedom to Discriminate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Abstract:</b> Some religious agents maintain LGBTQ+ people’s behaviour violates God’s law, or the natural order, or else the right/good way to live (or etc.). They maintain God’s imperative is clear and incontrovertible; it is wrong
to act upon queer proclivities. Consequently, if such agents are to live piously, it follows that “religious self-defence against a profane world may take the form of separatism”. This separation can be achieved by mechanisms of exclusion and refusal (Rosenblum
2003, p. 33). (Here, I do not ask what the state ought to be able to prevent or force religious agents to do. Following Tunick, “the question is not whether the state can force one group to be sensitive to the needs of another group. Rather, the issue is how
each group should conduct itself of its own volition” (2021, p. 298).) Since theirs is a set of meaning-generating beliefs of core moral and spiritual significance, are outsiders obliged to enable or allow special spaces of social seclusion for religious agents,
spaces where they may be free to engage only with those other persons who share their spiritual convictions? An obvious retort states that LGBTQ+ people have a right to non-discrimination, and thus concludes that exclusion and refusal are wrong no matter how
cherished the belief. However, I argue that ‘discrimination’ is the wrong barometer in this ‘clash of rights’; instead, we should shift our focus to ‘oppression’, and ask whether practices of exclusion or refusal contribute to it.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">For any queries about the Macquarie Philosophy Work-in-Progress
<span class="markkdeqljkrf">Seminar</span>s, please contact <a href="mailto:foa.philseminars@mq.edu.au">foa.philseminars@mq.edu.au</a>. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black">Regina<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.75pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Dr Regina Fabry
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">(she/her)<br>
ARC Discovery Early Career Research Awardee</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Department of Philosophy</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><br>
Level 7, 25B Wally’s Walk<br>
Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><br>
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