The Anglican Church in Australia is planning to establish a register of church adulterers.Adulterers will be named on an official suspected sex offenders' register.
Adultery may be immoral in Australia but it is certainly not illegal .
For the Anglican Church to equate adultery with sexual misconduct and sex abuse of children is quite outrageous.
It trivialises the insidious nature of child sex abuse, equating it with two adulterous lovers.
The Anglican Church should be treading very carefully to avoid any perception that it might be unwittingly suggesting that child sex abuse is no worse than adultery.
There is a massive difference between the two and the Anglican Church should be saying so, in no uncertain terms.
