Ok, it’s been on the tip of my tongue. Or the back of my mind. And anyway is there a difference?
I suddenly worked out what was so troubling to me about Abbott’s response to Gillian Triggs’ report. And yeah, well, even that is not entirely correct because it is NOT Gillian Triggs’ report. It’s from The Human Rights Commission and as such, she doesn’t own the report, if one is going to attack the integrity of the report, one should be attacking such things as the way the information was gathered, not the person themselves.
To use a rather crude analogy, when Peta Credlin was facing the court for a drink driving charge, had the judge made the rather strange decision that as Peta Credlin was both driving and over the legal limit, then she should pay a fine or something, then just screaming that this judge was partisan and they never suspended any Chiefs-of-staff under Labor doesn’t really cut it. You should actually be complaining about the corruption of the police who took the reading. And if you can’t do that, then what’s the problem?
But that’s a bit too obscure for the point I actually want to make here. And before any of you accuse me of being anti-Catholic, I’d just like to point out that some of my best friends are Jewish, and I put down Waheed Ali as one of the three people I’d like to meet, so I’m more politically correct than Bob Brown and on first name terms with God.
Ok, in this little fantasy, where Abbott stuck with the priesthood and became a bishop… Should Bishop have a capital?
Anyway, let’s move forward…
“Bishop Abbott, there’s a report from a lawyer who says that priests are abusing children…”
“Are they one of us?”
“Um… by one of us, do you mean, are they Catholic, or are they another priest?”
“Just tell me who gave the report.”
“It was a lawyer named Gillian.”
“Gillian, that’s a funny name for a man.”
“Um… she’s apparently a woman.”
“Then not only, isn’t she one of us, she couldn’t even be one of us. The report is partisan. Tell her that she’ll burn in hell.”
“But it’s about a priest that’s admitted what he’s done.”
“That’s the power of witches. They can make perfectly good people forget who they are. Just look at that Julia woman who’s the PM. If only there was someone like me as Opposition Leader, I’ll bet she wouldn’t have won the 2013 election and then we wouldn’t have all these social service benefits that stop people realizing that the Church is the only place they can find true solace”
“What about the children?”
“Who cares?”
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Aw, give me a break, I didn’t actually write the next two lines.
Peace and love,
Rossleigh.
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