Found in section 116 of the Constitution of Australia "The Commonwealth shall not make any law ... for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion".
This includes obtaining information via the confessional on the sexual proclivities of more than 2.5 million Australian [Insert your country name and its number of Catholic women here] Catholic women as targets for sexually active clergy.
Under s116 any action that can be described as a part of the religion no matter the purposes or harm caused to individuals, communities and the country can claim immunity on the basis of the freedom to practice a religion.
There is a growing body of evidence that the specific freedom as defined in s116 underlies the failures of governments, policing, health and more since federation that has allowed the unchecked abuse of children to exist for generations and has had a role in corrupting systems to work directly against every Australian who experiences rape or abuse.
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Where could we be today if our religions were modernised? A modern day religion would be one whose beliefs and customs are derived from the accumulation of validated empirical knowledge valid at 2019-06-25 00:09:14.
JohnB 7/24/2018 7:45:08 AM
The modern Catholic Church is a long term equal opportunity abuser who abuses the rights of ordinary people from birth to death and billions of years beyond.
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APRIL 3 2019 - 5:30PM - Clergy sex abuse survivor Paul Levey sues Catholic Church and includes why many survivors do not seek compensation via politicians, police or the criminal justice system. You can read Paul's first public statement about his experience which was first published here in 2016 For those who don't know my story here it is. Paul Levey Paul thumbed the entire document on his mobile one letter at a time.
John Brown was born in Yea Victoria 3717 on 27 December, 1948. John grew up in Yea, he went to the Catholic school on The Parade Yea and then a final year at Yea High school in Station Street. He undertook an apprenticeship as a Hand and Machine Compositor/Linotype Mechanic at the local newspaper The Yea Chronicle who recently declined to publish John's story. John left Yea after realising that the proprietor and local policeman Bill Ellison along with other local Catholics in his hometown and surrounds at that time were well aware of his abuse and of the rape and abuse of other children in Yea and district and were aware of the many events surrounding the murder of Herbert Henry Kemp of Yea ...... read more and more and more and Site Map
Investigation of an unsolved murder in 1962 can no longer be investigated according to police taskforce SANO because a different pedophile Catholic clergyman who raped a child at age 8 is now dead. As a result of the dead rapist being unconnected with the murder Victorian police remain clue less.
Later in life John married in Toowoomba only to begin the most bizarre period in his life as he learned that he wasnow related by marriage to the then bishop of Toowoomba Bill Morris. Morris was the head of the bishops conference at that time and was the "Go to" person in the country for survivors of childhood sexual abuse by Catholic clergy and yet I was never able to get a time or a conversation with the bishop. I did get conversations or connection with a number of Catholic organisations with varying degrees of weirdness some of which I have written about in my blog The FAQyMe Gene & the lifelong search for safe, moral and ethical social justice, the Human Right to a trauma informed and evidence based recovery and social re-engagement unhindered by the fear, anger, blockages or projections from other people's gods .
John is author and publisher of Trauma in Religion and regularly blogs at The FAQyMe Gene on his journey, recovery and the horror and the scale of this global issue.
John's personal story is just another from the hundreds of millions of other stories across the globe eminating from the human rights abuses and ongoing horrors of the systemic rape, abuses of trust, fraud, deception and cover up in the global Catholic and other religions. Like those others his "issues in life" arose and remain simply because his abusers as a child were just like theirs in that their rapists and abusers were Catholic or Catholic or Christian clergy and they too remain ineligible or unable to have their human rights upheld in their lifetime..