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Jan Nissar, Carlton, NSW

Catholic parents want Catholic teachers” – quoted from Fr Kevin McGuire’s letter (F/S 17/01).

I wonder if he has any evidence to back up that statement or is that just a sweeping generalisation? I suggest it is the latter. Why stop at Catholic teachers? Catholic parents want only Catholic students in their schools, a Catholic Prime Minister, a Catholic Leader of the Opposition, a Catholic Police Commissioner, a Catholic President, a Catholic Chief Justice etc etc. There, I can make wild sweeping statements as well.

Perhaps the learned Father should join a political party and give up hiding behind the cloth if he wants to make political statements about the level of support the minster and the government may lose because of a non-discriminatory policy? I would have thought Fr Kevin McGuire would have been a grown man with a lot of wisdom. What are his feelings about the sexual abuse of children around the world by Catholic priests for centuries? Or is that an inconvenient truth too difficult to discuss?

For the benefit of the Father and the Archbishop, Fiji is a multi-racial, multireligious, multi-cultural and diverse society. Catholics are not special. Everyone is special - for them, a profound thought perhaps. If you are thinking just of your ‘own kind’ I suggest you require a bigger and wider breadth of vision.

The Fiji First government is working very hard in educating people about equality, non-discrimination, merit-based selections, while our religious leaders and other political leaders are preaching the opposite.