Australian Priest Assaulted For Supporting Traditional Marriage

Source: bluntforcetruth.com --- Friday, September 29, 2017
As the debate over whether to keep marriage traditional or recognize same-sex couples continues in Australia, some progressives have resorted to violence. On top of former PM Tony Abbott being recently assaulted for supporting traditional marriage, an Australian priest was spat on and cursed at this week for not going along with the progressive agenda. According to LifeSiteNews, Father Morgan Batt was simply walking down Queen Street Mall when someone spat on him while screaming “f***ing no voter.” The action was clearly in reaction to him being a Catholic priest wearing his Roman collar. “Smile and move on was all I could do,” Batt recounted on Facebook. “Let’s pray for healing. Australia(,) this is really not us.” Father Batt is the vocations director for the Archdiocese of Brisbane, and is also the first Australian, and priest, to have climbed and then offered Mass at the highest peaks in Europe. The fight to preserve marriage has been a tumultuous one in the land down under. LifeSiteNews profiled more: A non-binding, optional postal survey on the definition of marriage is underway in Australia. The government says it will act based on the results of the survey. man who self-identifies as gay said in a recent video that there has been “bullying” and “absolutely vile comments” from the “Yes” campaign, and so he is voting “No.” A second man agrees in the video, posted on the Facebook page “Our Voice. Our Vote.” Another video fr ...

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