[Green Left Weekly] Fr Rod Bower has been the Rector at the Gosford Anglican Church for 14 years. His cheeky and very direct signs on the church board have received up to 50,000 views and thousands of shares on Facebook. He spoke to Green Left Weekly about joining the convergence for refugee rights in Canberra on November 18.

What sort of responses have you had to your messages of support for asylum seekers?

Overwhelmingly positive. There are a handful of people who trot out the mantra — that they’re queue jumpers, “illegals”. I find if you engage those people sympathetically, you can start to change their mind. It is a matter of finding ways to introduce facts to them. Of course there are ideologues who will never change their mind.

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