What a joy to watch the ABC's Q and A last night.
Watch it if you can.
No politicians! Simply a diverse array of panellists who identified as: atheist, Jewish, Catholic, Buddhist, gay, Muslim.
The two stand-out people for me were the Venerable Robina Courtin & Islamic Cleric Dr Mohamad Abdalla.
Deborah Conway & Josh Thomas & the Archbishop Mark Coleridge contributed well.
Archbishop Mark Coleridge was going well. I thought here's a priest who with contemporary views ... until he stumbled and fell when a question from the floor asked ...
"Archbishop, you touched briefly about marriage, we are talking about a socio-legal thing here, I’m not asking for you to ordain over my marriage, for example, but why should your beliefs impact on my ability to be taken in front of a justice and for them to preside over my marriage?"
Archbishop Coleridge's response disappointed, but did not surprise me.
See the link to article by Robina Courtin.
Becoming our own therapist: Buddhist perspectives on attachment and delusion
http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2013/04/01/3727423
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