So Rowan Williams has suggested that the law shouldn't be indifferent to people's religious convictions. In so doing he feels the wrath of, among others, ConservativeHome, the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph.
Just over a year ago he voiced similar concerns about the Sexual Orientation legislation and supported calls for Catholic adoption agencies to have the right to refuse to enage with homosexual couples. Presumably those steadfast supporters of a religion-free legal system were equally outraged back then.
Eh... no actually. From the Telegraph on 24th January last year...
Just over a year ago he voiced similar concerns about the Sexual Orientation legislation and supported calls for Catholic adoption agencies to have the right to refuse to enage with homosexual couples. Presumably those steadfast supporters of a religion-free legal system were equally outraged back then.
Eh... no actually. From the Telegraph on 24th January last year...
"The Sexual Orientation Regulations are a bad piece of law-making.... Huge numbers of objections met the draft proposals, but only now, over adoption, has resistance grown so strong that the Prime Minister is said to be seeking a way through "that respects the sensitivities of both sides". The "side" opposing the regulations includes the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England, Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor, who wrote to Tony Blair stating that Catholic adoption agencies, which provide a third of voluntary placements, would have to close if requirements outlawed teachings "about the foundations of family life" - teachings "shared not only by other Christian Churches, but also other faiths". The Archbishops of Canterbury and York then raised their voices against "the rights of conscience" being crushed by regulations."...or the Daily Mail....
"All the cardinal is doing - backed by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York - is spelling out the teaching of his Church, stretching back 2,000 years and shared by many other faiths. Nor is he trying, like the gay rights lobby, to impose his own morality on the rest of the country. Indeed, Catholic agencies are happy to direct gay couples to other agencies. The cardinal is only asking that Catholics should be allowed to continue to conduct their own lives according to the teaching of their Church. Is that so very unreasonable?"...and good old ConservativeHome on 20 March last year...
"David Cameron's decision to support the Government against the Catholic Church on this issue is one of the most depressing acts of his young leadership. He is denying faith-based charities the freedom of association and belief that is necessary for his 'big idea' of social responsibility to really flourish. Catholic and other churchleaders are not asking to ban gay adoption - merely that they do not themselves have toplace children with gay couples. It shouldn't have been too much to ask in a country that purports to value religious freedom."
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Sexual orientation - don't start me.
That is a good insight Cas I can tell because its exactly the one I had and this was what I thought the Archbish might have been getting at. I recall thinking myself that the state aggressively interfering in religious voluntary arrange nets was a step too far
There are some differences in that the imposition of Sharia law would be controversial in a Muslim country whereas the Christian influence on the law in a Christian one is not .
Ultimately though ,this about the recognition of the ethnicity of the British and their right to have predominance in their own country .The outcry provoked by this ephemeral suggestion is a proxy expression of the betrayal of this ownership by the ruling elite who tend to derive values universally and care little for the particularity of the people . It is also an opportunity for the Labour Party to reassure its nationalist voters who are considering the BNP . So in many ways the Muslims who , by their fascist and aggressive actions have forfeited the PC cloak of darkness and standing for the frustrations on many scores . Meanwhile the real business of betrayal proceeds by the ratification of the Treaty by Liberal lies and Parliamentary manipulation .
Many, I believe , sense a terrible treachery is being perpetuated whilst being to busy to follow its awful details . This stealthy car boot sale of British birth rights is a dangerous way to go as Polly Toynbee points out . The fact is accomplished even as the argument is lost . 2 million foreigners working here , foreign rules imposed , foreign people , Germans and Poles telling us what we can and cannot do ?
Where is the electoral support for any of this ?
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