lol runner. The paedophile State is the Vatican.

Dawson MP George Christensen stated in Federal Parliament on 16 March 2016:

The genesis, research, advocacy and ongoing support for the Safe Schools program is run by La Trobe University’s Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society. In fact, the Safe Schools Coalition is run out of that La Trobe centre.

Research by the Australian Family Association raised concerns about the centre’s deputy director, Gary Dowsett, a long-time advocate of “intergenerational sex”, otherwise known as paedophilia. I refer to Dowsett’s article, “Boiled lollies and Band-aids” from the journal Gay Information, where he says: “How different, then, is that gentle, tentative sexuality between parent and child from the love of a paedophile and his or her lover? That kind of love, warmth, support and nurture is an important part of the paedophilic relationship.” He argued in that journal article that paedophilia should be part of the gay movement and that it must be legally recognised, and he depicted it as a part of a wider sexual liberation.

From 2000 to 2002, Dowsett was on the Victorian government’s ministerial advisory committee on gay and lesbian health, putting him in a powerful position to advocate for the Victorian precursor program to Safe Schools. During the lead-up to Safe Schools receiving $8 million in taxpayer funds from Labor, Dowsett was the acting director of the La Trobe centre. I think it would shock many parents to know that a paedophilia advocate was overseeing the organisation that came up with the Safe Schools program.

McReal,

Until now ? Since pedophilia was so wrong in the Catholic system (and it certainly was), what makes it right in the Unsafe Schools system ?

Oops sorry - I get it: when 'they' do it, it's wrong, but when our side does it, it's right. Have I got that correct ?

Joe

Raycom,
that alleged article is supposed to have been written over 30 yrs ago in the 1980s; many attitudes have changed in that time - mostly for the better in terms of clarifying ethics and morals around relationships, especially relationships that involve imbalance of power (among other things). How about considering that the author of that article may have changed their attitude?

Loudmouth,
There is, of course, no advocacy for paedophilia in any school system.

As far as the Catholic church goes, why is there is such an enormous discrepancy between the numbers of clergy who have been paedophiles or child abusers and the numbers of clergy who have been defrocked, unfrocked, or laicized for such behaviour.

Why has there been (i) virtually no disciplinary proceedings within the church? or (ii) no church initiated police or legal proceedings?

The organisational ethical and moral failings of the Catholic church, on all levels - Diocean, nationally, & internationally, through the Vatican, are profound.

Dear Joe,

I just wanted to let you know that I am out of messages on "Homophobia claims by same-sex marriage advocates are bullying". I expect to respond to your last post tomorrow night.