|
Hi Des please pass on as ever Max
RELIGION may figure strongly at the next federal election. The electorate has had enough of self-opinionated bishops and crazy imams, and many citizens are fed up with the way the main parties bow and scrape to religious groups.
George Pell's recent pronouncement, which supported the Pope's claim that condoms do nothing to stop HIV transmission, puts him in the same league as flat-earthers and creationists. Educated middle-class voters are tired of this anti-intellectual stance from people who are supposed to inhabit the high moral ground. Pell even termed the AIDS epidemic in Africa a "spiritual crisis". Perhaps it's the best he can do to avoid the elephant in the church: child sex abuse.
While the fundamentalist pachyderm in the synagogue is hardly present here, late last year the Islamic Women's Welfare Council of Victoria released a report that claimed Muslim religious leaders were condoning rape within marriage, domestic violence, polygamy, welfare fraud and the exploitation of women. That's the elephant in the mosque.
![related link]() Click here to read the full article on the website
| 
