{"id":2828,"date":"2008-04-30T18:37:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T23:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/04\/30\/arbitrary-court-decisions\/"},"modified":"2008-04-30T18:37:46","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T23:37:46","slug":"arbitrary-court-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/04\/arbitrary-court-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Arbitrary court decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article\">Sydney, Apr. 30, 2008 (CWNews.com) &#8211; Cardinal George Pell of Sydney has argued against the adoption of a bill of rights for Australia, saying that he fears the eruption of &quot;culture wars&quot; that would be settled by arbitrary court decisions rather than the normal democratic process. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>In an address to the Brisbane Institute, the cardinal pointed to the controversial judicial decisions that have given rise to fierce political divisions in the United States and Canada. &quot;We don&#8217;t have a culture war here in Australia in the way the United States does, but a bill or charter of rights could help provoke one,&quot; he said, according to a report in Western Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Court rulings on human-rights issues have frequently thwarted the popular will, Cardinal Pell observed. &quot;Rights are best protected by the common law and by parliament when the people are equally aware of their responsibilities,&quot; he argued.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwnews.com\/news\/viewstory.cfm?recnum=58149\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/article.png\" alt=\"Article\" border=\"0\" style=\"border: 0px solid ; width: 76px; height: 26px;\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney, Apr. 30, 2008 (CWNews.com) &#8211; Cardinal George Pell of Sydney has argued against the adoption of a bill of rights for Australia, saying that he fears the eruption of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}