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The Gold Coast Bulletin is introducing a new email address for Letters to the Editor. From now on, please send your letters to letters@goldcoast.com.au. Please also include your name and suburb at the bottom of your letter.
I HAVE never been a fan of online buying until the Saturday which has just passed.
Two wonderful ladies representing Gifts on the Gold Coast arrived at my door with a wonderful Christmas hamper ordered by my sisters in New Zealand.
They knew I would be feeling down this Christmas after the death of my only daughter due to cancer a few months earlier.
On ordering, my sisters were asked if there was anything special they would like – their reply was “deliver with a hug from us”.
This is just what there two wonderful ladies did.
A lovely smile, a compassionate hug and loving thoughts.
This is one very teary happy recipient of this online gift.
Thankyou Gifts on the Gold Coast for going that “extra mile”. COLLEEN, COOMBABAH
SYDNEY Archbishop Anthony Fisher’s Christmas message reportedly declares 2017 an “annus horribilis” (horrible year) because of, among other things, marriage equality and the child sex abuse royal commission.
According to news reports Archbishop Fisher’s Christmas message says:
“For people of faith you might say it (2017) has been an ‘annus horribilis’, as our Christian conceptions of life and love have been challenged in the marriage and euthanasia debates, freedom of religion in Australia put in doubt and shameful crimes and cover ups in our church uncovered by the royal commission.”
It is morally wrong to draw any link between marriage equality and the royal commission.
One is about the equal recognition of loving, committed adult relationships while the other is about the church’s failure to stop the sexual abuse of children.
I don’t expect Archbishop Fisher to embrace marriage equality but I’m disappointed he continues to demonise it by association.
The Archbishop’s words are particularly disappointing at Christmas time. This is a season when many Catholic families are
preparing for the joyful summer wedding of a loved one.
Polls repeatedly showed a majority of Catholics back marriage equality, so the Archbishop’s unfair comments will do nothing but weaken his authority.
The one point at which the Archbishop is correct is when he says young people will right the wrongs of the Church, because young Catholics overwhelmingly support marriage equality. RODNEY CROOME, JUST.EQUAL SPOKESPERSON
I AM writing about Black Swan Lake. Please do not let the senseless destruction of Black Swan Lake to go ahead.
It is a beautiful place and is like a small piece of heaven in among the harshness and busyness of the city. Please leave some places untouched.
As a lifelong resident it breaks my heart to see how much damage
is being done to the Gold Coast by the present council. Please do something to stop this.
We have heard they are going to start filling it in soon.
This must be stopped. VALMA CRONAU, CO-ORDINATOR, GOLD COAST HOMESCHOOLERS
APPARENTLY the $1bn amphetamine seizure in Geraldton, WA is equivalent to 13,000 fixes.
That’s going to account for a lot of half-insane drying out zombies over Christmas-New Year unless Santa’s dealer comes to the rescue. DAVID HALL, LABRADOR
THE PM said the vehicle that was driven into the Melbourne shoppers was not a terrorist attack.
That is total rubbish PM, the people were terrified, Melbourne was terrorised; that was a terrorist attack and by another incompatible refugee boat arrival. G J MAY, FORESTDALE
EVERY time I see Donald Trump sign a bill or document the letters in his signature are three inches high. Does this mean he has not long been weaned off crayons, chalk and black boards? SP, ELANORA