Time to challenge Abbott's church "morality"?

With Abbott now firmly looking like the fossil he is, holding on to the last vestiges of yesteryear in Canberra and blocking the way to federal marriage equality by not allowing a conscience vote in his party, perhaps it's time the Australian people challenged the so called convictions of a Prime Minister locked in the religious past. There's nothing wrong with being locked in the religious past, as long as you don't expect everyone else around you to be as well. Abbott is supposed to be a leader for all the people in this country, then how can it be appropriate for him to impose his own fossilised church doctrines on the whole Australian society?

And what church are we talking about? What pillar of morality is he getting this stuff from? None other than that morales institution the Catholic church. Yes folks, you know that one who dissolved any claim it had to morality when it protected it's own paedophiles when they were caught with their pants down.This church has no claim to be any sort of moral compass to the Australian people. It's rotten to the core. What right does Abbott have to be counselled by the Catholic Church over matters of legislation so intimate as who people fall in love with?

Peter Norden at the Australian Marriage Equality site agrees: 

It is common knowledge that the new Prime Minister receives regular counsel from Cardinal George Pell, who is well known for his dismissive attitude to the long-established and respected Catholic tradition of “the centrality of individual conscience” in ethical decision making. 

The Cardinal believes that more weight should be given to what he regards as “absolute truth” in the face of the rising influence of relativism, libertarianism and secularism. 

Gone are the days when Catholic leaders had a recognised legitimacy to impose moral standards on their affiliated church members, as evidenced in Catholic Church teaching on matters of birth control or sexual morality generally. 

Most Australians would respect the fact that an organisation like the Catholic Church should be able to determine who is eligible for marriage, for those who desire to be united within a Catholic Church marriage ceremony. 

But their intention to impose their views on the wider Australian community in determining who can be married in Australia today should certainly be challenged. more

Like I said, he's welcome to have his own religion and his own views accordingly, but Australian society is much bigger and broader than a church guilty of institutionalised paedophilia. He could believe in the Great Spaghetti Monster for all I fuckin care, but if he imagines The Great Spaghetti monster only agrees with marriage between opposite sexes that's his nutty belief system not mine. 

I'm an Australian citizen too. I, and many others in this country, have rejected religion as a carriage service for morality. Have said a few times here that I'd put secular morality up against religion any day. 

If Abbott wants to lead Australia, he needs a much broader view of us. We're much bigger than the Catholic church.