Muriel Porter

rdf:langString Muriel Porter

rdf:langString Muriel Porter

rdf:langString Muriel Porter

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rdf:langString Muriel Lylie Carter

rdf:langString Critique of the Anglican Church of Australia

rdf:langString Australian

rdf:langString Journalist, author

rdf:langString Muriel Lylie Porter OAM (née Carter, born 15 May 1948) is an Australian journalist based in Melbourne, Victoria. She is a frequent contributor to The Age newspaper and The Melbourne Anglican diocesan newspaper, for which she mostly writes about issues concerning the Anglican Church of Australia in which she is a prominent layperson. Porter is a representative of the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne on the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia. She is critical of megachurches and is an advocate of the ordination of women, homosexual unions and allowing non-celibate homosexual people to become clergy. She was involved in the formation of an Anglican submission recommending abortion be legalised in Victoria. She is also the author of several books, including The New Puritans: the rise of fundamentalism in the Anglican Church, a book which is a critique of evangelicals in the Anglican Church.

rdf:langString Muriel Lylie Carter