Hello, Babette,

>>"I have just remembered there are people starving in Australia - mainly young girls from middle-class or wealthy families. They suffer from anorexia nervosa and bulimia and need expensive treatment."

     There are 45 million people listed as food-insecure by the United States Department of Agriculture. Australia's Bureau of Statistics doesn't even calculate statistics on that, which is never a good sign. Homeless and starvation statistics are available. Remember, just one or two cases doesn't prove or disprove something. A few cases of Anorexia is not proof that starvation only occurs with "middle-class or wealthy families." Apparently, you think poor girls are completely immune to the dominating Sexist culture in our society.

>>"Pope Ben has admitted their mistakes in dealing with child sex abuse, mainly by homosexual priests and seminarians who infiltrated the church. The rules have been tightened now, and those with a homo tendency are not allowed to enter the priesthood."

     Infiltrated the church? Yeah, like, in the year 1200! The Spanish Inquisition of the 1600's and the Catholic convents of the 1800's and 1900's are all riddled with sex abuse scandals. It's not just "homosexuals infiltrating the church." Catholic bishops and ministers have defended their own rapists for centuries and centuries. Just pick up a book on the inquisition, or even about the sex abuse rampant throughout convents today or the past century. Since the year 1200, the Catholic Church has been involved in prostitution or sex slavery of some kind: "...the Church gave support to the world's oldest profession, believing the women of the night to be responsible for guarding the honor and chastity of the nuns, who prayed for the people." (From: the Harvard Crimson, TheCrimson.com )

     There was no opposition to "homo tendency." It wasn't a question of finding out who was gay or not. It was a question of the church being informed, THOUSANDS OF TIMES, that its priests are raping children, MALE AND FEMALE, and then hid the priests. I can see how you don't believe in abolishing Sexism. Apparently, it only matters when little boys are raped, not little girls. So, those priests had a "homo tendency." Great way to spin the story of your church raping children. "No, it's the gays who raped the children!" No, it was the priests, and you're the ones who protected them when society was harmed by their malicious cruelty. This isn't something new and sudden -- this has been going on for more than 800 years.

>>"Those mistakes are different to saying the Church murdered 50,000 people."

According to Alfred Cobban, 30,000 were killed, perhaps as many as 50,000 later executed or imprisoned and 7,000 were exiled to New Caledonia.[8]

Wikipedia: Paris Commune

>>"Aborigines, it is our Greens who are tying up huge tracts of land and "wild rivers" while our conservative Opposition is trying to restore land and fishing rights to aborigines."

     The conservative opposition OWNS THE LAND that you think they are "trying to restore." All they'd have to do would be sign over the deed. What's holding them up? Doesn't seem like you can put anything on the Greens for the failure of the Conservatives to fulfill their duty, you know, like property rights. Do you believe in property rights? Probably. Then give the land back to the Aborigines. They never gave it to you, so it belongs to them, and it still belongs to them, and Australians today are nothing more than a bunch of thieves, every last one of them. Don't just abort that baby because it's taking welfare in the form of nutrients from its mother. Abort it and throw it in prison for violating property rights and trying to create a Socialist dystopia!

Sincerely,
Andy Carloff

"To-day we are claiming the right to solve our own problems, to make our own mistake and to learn the inevitable lesson to be derived from such mistakes. Our morality is an 'ethics of the dust,' as Professor Edwin Holt has expressed it, a morality of reality, aiming to show men and women the structure of their relationships to each other, to the world at large, and the world to be. It is not a morality concerned with melodramatic rewards and punishments, with absolute rights and wrongs, with unhealthy lingering interests in virginity and chastity, with its propensity for prying into the unwholesome details of sexual behavior, but a morality insisting that men and women shall face honestly and realistically the intimate problems of their own lives, and that they themselves, on the bases of their own experience and own desires, solve those problems with the instruments of intelligence, insight and honesty."
          --Margaret Sanger, 1929
          "The Civilizing Force of Birth Control"