In Sydney today, the LGBT movement had its Westboro Baptist Church moment. It protested at someone’s funeral. Like that cranky religious sect in the US that noisily demonstrates at the funerals of soldiers, LGBT activists waved placards calling the deceased a ‘monster’ and ‘scum’. They chanted for him to ‘go to hell’. ‘Burn in hell’, said one banner. ‘Nonce’, said another. It was a truly disturbing spectacle. A new low in identity politics.
It was Cardinal Pell’s funeral. Pell was Australia’s most important Catholic leader. He served as Archbishop of Melbourne and later as Archbishop of Sydney. He then went to Rome where he was Secretariat for the Economy in the Vatican. He was found guilty of child sexual abuse in 2018 but his conviction was later quashed by the High Court of Australia. Pell died earlier this month, at the age of 81.
Catholic churches have been horribly desecrated by anti-Pell mob
I knew Pell was an unpopular figure in right-on circles, as much for his orthodox Catholic beliefs as for those quashed accusations of abuse.
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