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Cast no stones.(Bishop Owen Featherhead discourages criticism of human rights in China; Olympic Games in Beijing)(Brief Article)
The welcome decision to hold the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing is "an act of reconciliation of the kind we sorely need in this country", writes Bishop Owen Featherhead in his diocesan magazine The Ghasthurst Churchperson.
"For too long China has been treated as the prodigal son--prodigal child should say--of the international community and held up to scorn and vilification. Yet who are we, with our eyes so full of beams, to throw motes at a fellow world citizen when instead we should be looking to our own innumerable failings?
"Who are we," the Bishop continues, "to lecture the Chinese on `human rights' when the rights of our fellow Australians are daily eroded by racism, sexism, homophobia and greenhouse emissions? Who are we to take a high moral line when our stolen generations cry to heaven for justice and are given a stone? As long as we continue to tolerate in our own community such social evils as smoking, a decadent foreign monarchy and savage and unremitting assaults on the independence of ...
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