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.
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Originally Posted by grahamw48
's MOST definitely a VERY 
you've put forward there, Graham ... and it's a view with which 
100%. Sadly, 
had the youngest candidate, the 58-yo Filipino Cardinal (3rd in the "pecking order", by all accounts) been elected instead, it wouldn't likely have made any difference to the "thorny" debate about contraception. Worsened it, even ... as such an outcome could've jeopardised the commendable progress to date, of the vital RH Bill.
