Yes Arthur, I fully appreciate that one needs some diplomacy on the site, considering the large number of Catholic members....which is why I do try to keep my personal views as 'mild' as I feel able to.

However, this is also (supposedly) a secular nation and one where free speech is (supposedly) a right.

It seems that this new 'conduit of god' is also a man who frowns upon contraception. Now that I find irresponsible and selfish in the extreme, and a policy that greatly affects the good people of the Philippines and other poorer Catholic countries where massive overpopulation is clearly THE main problem.

I'm not the sort of person who can just sit on his hands, saying nothing, when people wielding such power and influence (based on 2,000 year-old hand-me-down tales) seem content with this situation.