Origin of the Eucharist and the possible intervention of other factors. One key consideration in this is the problem of the Jewish prohibition of drinking blood (see below). Professor Robert J. Daly, S.J., argues that Jesus did indeed institute the Eucharist, though it took generations and centuries of guidance from the Holy Spirit for the Eucharist to reach its current form. "What Jesus did at the Last Supper is obviously at least the generative moment of the institution of the Eucharist." But it was not the Eucharist as we know it. "The Eucharist that Christians now celebrate is what the Church, under the guidance
Racial and Religious Tolerance Act 2001 for inciting serious contempt of Muslims, each were fined $2,000. Former state shadow Attorney general Andrew McIntosh announced prior to the 2006 election that the Liberal Party would repeal the religious section of the "fundamentally flawed" Act. In January 2006, nineteen Christian leaders from Melbourne's largest churches wrote to the Premier requesting the removal of the civil provisions in the act, claiming that aspects of the religious vilification law undermines multiculturalism. Independent MP Russell Savage, whose support helped Bracks form Government in 1999, described the act as "the worst legislation he had ever seen passed". Racial and Religious Tolerance Act