The Secular Thinkers Who Believe Democracy Needs Christianity
Australia elected a new Prime Minister on Saturday night, namely Labor’s Anthony Albanese.
Australia elected a new Prime Minister on Saturday night, namely Labor’s Anthony Albanese.
Virtue: goodness, righteousness, integrity, honesty, morality, uprightness. Its antonym is “wickedness”. As Prime Minister Turnbull and Leader of the Opposition, Bill Shorten, and their party faithfuls rejoiced over the redefining of marriage what happened to the virtue of truth. The rhetoric of commitment to freedom of speech and religion by Mr Turnbull and those who ran the “Yes” campaign was lost in unamended legislation that disenfranchised potentially a third of Australian voters and probably more. No wonder former Prime Minister John Howard believed such legislation needed to be put in place before any plebiscite took place. Did he understand how...
The debate over same sex marriage in Australia has been re-ignited by news that some members of the federal governing Liberal/National Party (LNP) coalition are proposing. In my view the protections to be provided, if press reports about the proposal are accurate, are far too few and far too narrow, and the proposal cannot be seen as providing adequate protection for this fundamental human right.