I’m sorry Archbishop Porteous, but you are wrong
One of the reasons we have bishops is to explain the wisdom of the Catholic Church. Not that you would know this from their recent public pronouncements. Because going by these, you could be forgiven for thinking that they preferred instead to hide or obscure the Church’s clear cut teachings. First we had Bishop Putney from Townsville tell us that each and every family had a gay member. Then he waxed lyrical on the ABC for some time...
Liberals & Abortion: Crawling forward & leaping backwards
I’m the first to admit that I’m not the greatest fan of the Liberal Party. But I’m also happy to acknowledge when they get it right. And over the weekend, the Victorian branch of the Liberal Party got it right. At the State Council, members voted to repeal provisions of the Victorian abortion laws that prevent doctors from exercising their conscience. These anti-choice laws were put in by the Labor party in its dying days of...
Puerile Politics
This piece is gratefully republished from Mishka Gora’s blog, Eyes of the Mind. She expresses so much more clearly than I could the problems with the Tasmanian parliament’s recent decision to decriminalise abortion. ***** The Tasmanian parliament has finally passed the Reproductive Health (Access to Terminations) Act 2013 after a drawn-out committee process and numerous amendments. The original bill was a highly flawed...
