It’s not Catholic doctrine to give a portion of income to the Church? (We’ll skip the nitpicking of how much and of what, and the difference between ‘giving’ and ‘required’, and even OT v NT - Jesus said give to God what is God’s.) And I’m not talking about tithing Mormon-style, where everyone knows everyone else’s…

List them. Every Judeo-Christian sect that does not have a doctrinal requirement of tithe. Not ones that are loose about actually making people pony up the dough every Sunday, most are pretty forgiving about that (except the pushy prosperity gospel types).

This is good news, people! Very few cases referred from the Royal Commission have resulted in charges being laid, because of the usual problems with this kind of abuse - coverups, lack of evidence, the length of time passed (fifty plus years) etc. They wouldn’t charge him if they didn’t think they had a decent shot of…

All Judeo-Christian faiths require it. Leviticus and Deuteronomy, from memory. One tenth belongs to God and is to be given to the Church for its upkeep.

Celibacy is a red herring. Any of these ‘priests’ could have left their vocation, if sex was that important. These charges are being brought because of the work of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Abuse - which has scope over all institutions that had control or contact over children: religious and…

As long as the Church requires a tithe (which is the minimum every Christian is to give, one tenth of income, off the top, and doesn’t count other monetary contributions, time spent on church business, food and goods donations, the new roof fund, foreign missionary fund, etc) - then BrightEyes’ point about money is …

The term is ‘rock spider’. There was (is?) a police unit dedicated to catching paedophiles and kiddy porn peddlers, called Operation Scorpion. Cause scorpions hunt rock spiders.

I’m sorry, I don’t understand how single payer means increased prices. The gov sets the prices, so shouldn’t that mean decreased costs overall?

I know several six year olds and that’s an insult to their intelligence, diction and poise.

Don’t heckle. Take photos of all attendees. For future reference.

Same! Arial everything. TNR for headings or formal (printed) docs. Calibri can f* right off. And woe betide the IT guy if the system defaults my settings - I will cut a bish over font settings.

You are making a judgement on someone’s potential professional conduct, based on your previous experiences and the demographics of your local area. I’d say that’s okay, so long as you are able to reverse your judgement given more information. From my own experiences, as a patient and from working in healthcare, I try…

It creates a culture that lets the privileged act without consequences and demonizes the rest if they even try and raise the issue.

Hmmm. Someone still has to do the reporting, if only to document the daily bullshit. Instead of skipping it entirely, send people who irritate and/or enrage by their very existence - minorities, women, people with visible disabilities (bonus points for every time the WH violates the ADA!), actual court stenographers…

(Our major parties were named at a time when trade tariffs was the big thing, so Liberal for open markets, small government and conservatism, Labour for unions, protectionism and collective/social programs. These days they look and act pretty much the same (old white males in blue ties), so our Greens and independents…

Apart from finding a bulkbilling doc you can see in under a hour (what unicorn is this?) I totally agree with you, we are blessed with a really good healthcare system - I’ve worked in it and needed it (hello, appendicitis at 32!) and I happily pay extra so others can benefit too. It really gets me that Americans can’t…

FWIW, Woman’s Day is a trashy weekly gossip mag of very little substance. Most ‘stories’ are heavily emotionally slanted, everything’s a triumph, a tragedy, or a scandal. Since there’s no tragedy, and her proud bogan* stance doesn’t fit the triumph storyline (despite her real successes), WD went with making a scandal…

Major props to these guys. My brother is a major in an armed forces band corps, and outside their official duties, they are available for requests by the public (veterans orgs, charity concerts etc) and get asked to do some incredibly difficult things on utterly ridiculous lead-times and they do not get paid extra…

Aw, dude, :(. FWIW, I don’t down check a guy just because they have kids.

It’s interesting, not because of prurient aspects of picking apart other people’s sexuality, but because of what it tells us about how our brains develop and how that turns into behaviour, and then how that behaviour is modified by experience and culture, which in turn modifies our brains...