http://clergyabuseaustralia.org/blog/2008/10/06/breaking-news/ Opportunities to say what I think about current church stuff. You're welcome to add comments, but please forgive me if I'm very slow to answer them. Comments are moderated, too, so don't expect them to appear immediately you post them. Note:This blog is independently accessible at http://www.clergyabuseaustralia.org/blog Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:55:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://clergyabuseaustralia.org/blog/2008/10/06/breaking-news/#comment-352 jaqi Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:40:30 +0000 http://clergyabuseaustralia.org/blog/?p=35#comment-352 One can only surmise that what he meant by 'separation of church and state' was that he had moved (apparently without giving a moment's thought to what it might entail) from a job in which he was free to operate according to the Church's - or at least local churchmen's - notion of reality (and thus of appropriate behaviour) to a job where reality and appropriate behaviour were defined by a considerably broader demographic of opinion, most of the constituents of which view child sexual abuse rather more sternly than do all too many churchmen (abusers or not). In other words, what Hollingworth 'underestimated' with regard to the separation of church and state was the fact that, as G-G, Christian authority would no longer protect him from public censure: he would be accountable to the population at large rather than just the powerbrokers of the Anglican church - a rather more rigorous standard, as it turned out. One can only surmise that what he meant by ‘separation of church and state’ was that he had moved (apparently without giving a moment’s thought to what it might entail) from a job in which he was free to operate according to the Church’s – or at least local churchmen’s – notion of reality (and thus of appropriate behaviour) to a job where reality and appropriate behaviour were defined by a considerably broader demographic of opinion, most of the constituents of which view child sexual abuse rather more sternly than do all too many churchmen (abusers or not). In other words, what Hollingworth ‘underestimated’ with regard to the separation of church and state was the fact that, as G-G, Christian authority would no longer protect him from public censure: he would be accountable to the population at large rather than just the powerbrokers of the Anglican church – a rather more rigorous standard, as it turned out.

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