{"id":1574,"date":"2015-11-28T17:03:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T06:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stbridgetsgreythorn.org.au\/?p=1574"},"modified":"2015-11-28T15:45:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T04:45:45","slug":"archbishop-porteous-and-anti-discrimination-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/archbishop-porteous-and-anti-discrimination-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Porteous and Anti-Discrimination Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THERE is no solid thinking in the claim that Archbishop Porteous\u00a0has a case to answer for his measured defence of the Catholic position on marriage.<\/p>\n<p>As <em>The<\/em> <em>Australian<\/em> stated on Thursday last: &#8220;Tim Wilson (Human Rights Commissioner), a strong supporter of same-sex marriage, said recently, reform of the Marriage Act should not be a &#8216;Trojan horse for legally enforced anti-religious secularism&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is, in my view, perfectly right. Australian bishops and Catholics, and religions in general, are entitled to state a position opposing same-sex marriage, and may be obliged to do so for pastoral reasons, in a free democracy.&#8221; This is common sense.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, both legislators and those who oppose legislation in favour of same-sex marriage, need to discuss how the law can be shaped to accommodate freedom of religion and freedom of speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THERE is no solid thinking in the claim that Archbishop Porteous\u00a0has a case to answer for his measured defence of the Catholic position on marriage. As The Australian stated on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-1574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices","tag-marriage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1576,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions\/1576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}