Michael Gorey

The Herald Sun reports a Uniting Church cleric who believes Good Friday should be dumped as a public holiday in favor of something to do with reconciliation.

That’s the sort of nonsense you come to expect from the Uniting Church.

I have written before about how Australia’s public holidays need an overhaul, but I never envisaged dropping Easter or Christmas.

Australia’s demographics have changed, but it’s important we respect our Christian origins and observe the major feast days. To do otherwise would be to suggest that our value-system has changed, and I don’t believe that’s the case.

Labor Day is the most obvious holiday to be dumped and made uniform across the country.

These articles might be of interest:

• Celebrate Christmas
• Uniting Church out of touch
• Australian national holidays