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By Mitchell Barrington, published 31/10/2017Yet manyof us simultaneously hold beliefs about how others’ private lives ought to conform to our standards.
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Posted by Leo Lane, Sunday, 5 November 2017 8:38:22 PM
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“Legal action against dissenters is a real and present threat. Reports of florists, bakers, and photographers being litigated against and fined for living out their conscientiously-held beliefs about marriage are easily dismissed as from the “only in America” file.
But here at home, Archbishop Julian Porteous, the kindly pastoral leader of Hobart’s Catholic community, spent six months tied up before the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Commission.
His crime? Distributing gentle and respectful material outlining Christian teaching on marriage.
What many people do not realise is that it was Australian Marriage Equality, the peak group advocating for change, which urged the reporting of Archbishop Porteous, to the authorities.
They said he was distributing “hate” material.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/samesex-marriage-australians-assume-marriage-equality-has-no-consequences/news-story/fc8161e5d42eb802b1546872fdab4b0e