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On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 12:16:46 GMT, gjbird@optushome.com.au (Geoff Bird)
wrote:

>On 24 Apr, Carman <cael77@surfbest.net> wrote:
>>
>>  Please cite the names of these "original activists", the
>>names of the organizations you call "politically correct
>>pressure groups", and your evidence indicating these
>>people attended Catholic schools.
>>
>
>For example, there is a bloke called John Marsden, who
>I met a few years ago when I sued the NSW Council for
>Civil Liberties.  I had sought a Supreme Court injunction
>to ban the Council for Civil Liberties from promoting
>prisoners rights, on the basis that prisoners are in prison
>for violating the civil liberties of their fellow citizens.
>
>John Marsden was the president of the Council for Civil
>Liberties.  According to the "Sydney Morning Herald",
>he was also a gay rights activist.  Before becoming a
>lawyer, Mr. Marsden trained as a Catholic priest, along
>with former NSW Premier John Fahey, who became a
>partner in Marsden's law firm.
>
>John Fahey liked to portray himself as a good Catholic
>and a family man.  Despite this, he had this friend and
>business partner who was a gay rights activist.  How
>could such a state of affairs exist unless the Catholic
>Church secretly supported gay rights?
>
>Incidentally, my court case was based on another case
>in which some rugby players obtained an injunction
>against the New Zealand Rugby Football Union banning
>their proposed tour of South Africa, which the players
>claimed violated the objectives of the NZRFU.
>Like the "Mabo" case, my case was decided in
>accordance with "judicial activism" and not in
>accordance with the established law.
>
>For the answers to your other questions, please read
>
>     http://www.students.org.au/catholic

Or:

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/federal_ct/unrep7063.html