by Carol Burger | Jul 15, 2014 | Australian news
Support among Australians for same-sex marriage and for a conscience vote in the Coalition has reached an all-time high, according to a survey by the Liberal Party’s own pollster.
by John | Feb 21, 2013 | Australian commentary, Overseas commentary
For many years I wrote in defence of the traditional and religious definition of marriage. I spoke to and wrote for conservative and religious audiences in Australia and overseas. I tried to describe, and by doing so preserve, the meaning of traditional and religious...
by John | Oct 19, 2012 | Overseas commentary
In late September, Archbishop John J. Myers of Newark, N.J., upped the ante in the hierarchy’s culture war against LGBT civil rights by declaring that those who support marriage equality should refrain from receiving the Eucharist. With somewhere between 52...
by John | Sep 23, 2012 | News, World news
The Pope called upon French Catholics to challenge the planned introduction of gay marriage dubbing it as a ‘threat’ to the family and society in France. The head of the Catholic church, Pope Benedict XVI, told a group of French bishops visiting Castel Gandolfo that...
by John | Aug 28, 2012 | Australian commentary
Shifts in churches and synagogues toward accepting gay unions are accelerating. In On Line Opinion in May it was suggested that the early months of this year saw a change in wind direction towards ecclesiastical reform, after blustery breezes last year. To extend the...