Jose'

Pastor Mulheran managed to vilify himself with his bigoted hateful contract. The school gate protest was peaceful and did not direct anger at any students. Parents were at the protest.

Glad you recognised all that religious pontificating doesn't make a scrap of difference to the number of pedophiles in the congregation. According to you the number of rock spiders sitting in church with you is at the same level as the general community, they mustn't be listening. Given the level of pedophilia exposed in churches, I'd say it probably a great deal higher than the general community.

"Hearing these sexual confessions from parishioners (cleargy) are triggered off to commit homosexual, pedophile and adultery, vulnerable (cleargy) tempted by weakness."

JOSE' WHAT A RIDICULOUS STATEMENT. Minimization and victim blaming. What is the name of your screwball church? I'll do some research.

And we may hope that in the tolerant future politicians will be allowed a free vote on all matters and that a member of, say, Labor will be freely and publicly allowed to espouse Liberal doctrine.
Why keep such good principles only for religion?

The politicians are allowed to cross the floor
at any time now. They can vote according to their
conscience - and many have done so in the past.
Usually not from the Coalition though. This was a
rare move this time and those five who did are to
be congratulated. Hopefully more will have the guts
to do so in the future.

Foxy in the Liberal and National parties members can cross the floor
and vote against their party as allowed by party rules.
However it is not the same in the Labour party.
Cross the floor and vote against the party and you are out of the party.
I don't know about the greens & others.

As far as I'm aware, Labor politicians have never been allowed a conscience vote, and crossing the floor would result in dismissal from the party. I posted this recently, and suggested that it is high time for the Coalition to exert the same discipline on its MPs. If they don't like the party line, they can go independent.

It might not always have been thus.

Figures show that between 1950-2019, Coalition MPs made 96.8% of the crossings, Labor 3.1%.

Whatever, it shows that it is not "unusual" for the Coalition, as you suggest, Foxy. The ALP is much more disciplined than the Liberals are. And this is probably why the bed-wetting Liberals who crossed the floor on this occasion chose to join the Liberal Party rather than the Labor party. They want to be Lefties, but they want to do what they feel like doing at the time. It's always been a surprise to me that the Liberals have been in government at all since John Howard, given the number of slack Lefties infesting it now. I suppose there are still enough people voting the way mummy and daddy did. They have certainly kicked my conservative arse off the block.