When the courts take into account one’s political beliefs, we’ve ceased to be a free nation.
As I await a ruling on my “drag queen” free speech case in the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal, I take no comfort from QCAT's sister organisation in Victoria.
In a decision to uphold the Medical Board of Australia’s suspension of Doctor Jereth Kok for opinions he wrote on Facebook, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) cited Dr Kok’s “clear conservative leanings”.
This sent a chill up my spine.
Since when in the supposedly free nation of Australia did one’s political views become the business of the courts?
I was alerted to this when I read Dr John Whitehall’s article in Quadrant Magazine defending Dr Kok.
Titled The Persecution of a Doctor, Whitehall exposes the double standards of the Australian Health Practitioners’ Regulatory Agency (AHPRA) in its targeting of Dr Kok.
His story is a saga in and of itself and it is clear to me, upon reading Dr Whitehall’s article, that Kok has done nothing worthy of him being stripped of his ability to practice medicine.
He is a victim of the Left's pernicious cancel culture.
I’m worried that the same prejudice and animus towards conservatives displayed by AHPRA, the Medical Board and VCAT will also animate QCAT.
After the Queensland Human Rights Commission decreed that I had a case to answer for my January 2020 blog post about the dangers of allowing LGBTIQA+ drag queens to read to children in public libraries, the drag queens have launched taxpayer-funded legal action against me in QCAT.
They are seeking $20,000 in compensation plus various orders to gag me.
When the courts take into account one’s political beliefs, we’ve ceased to be a free nation.
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