After virtue
Religious bodies have been demonstrating their virtue again. They’ve quit Labour’s ‘advisory group on religion’ in a huff because the secularists there resisted their demands to be allowed to ignore equality laws.
Muslims had already stopped attending the group…Hindus, Baha’is and secularists are still represented but the Church of England, Salvation Army, Methodist Church and Roman Catholic Church have all left.
Because they don’t want no stinkin’ equality. How impressive.
Peter Vlachos, the National Secular Society delegate, said he was appalled and accused the church groups of “abusing” the forum. He said: “Rather than supporting and championing equality and human rights, the Churches have tried to use the consultative process to try to gain further exemptions from equalities legislation. They wanted the freedom to discriminate and they didn’t get it so now they’ve walked away.”
So – generosity, compassion, justice, equality – all spurned by the churches. So that’s what they’re like, is it? Well I knew that, but I’m a little surprised they’re so open about it.
The Pope recently intervened in the debate over equality legislation in Britain. Benedict XVI is expected to use his visit to Britain in September to preach moral virtue. Leaders across the churches continue to defend the right of Christians and other religions to discriminate against women, gays and others according to their religious beliefs.
Right. The pope, who spent years enforcing secrecy about child abuse in his church, will be preaching ‘moral virtue,’ which takes the form of defending the ‘right’ to discriminate against various groups of people ‘according to one’s religious beliefs.’ Well the hell with that – that’s not moral virtue. The pope wouldn’t recognize moral virtue if it grabbed him between the legs.
Notice, Islam was first; now it’s the Christians. This is going viral. If Britain doesn’t soon get a grip, freedom will be a memory.
Too late!
Remember, we’ve got the “Blasphemey-under-another-name” law about religiously “offensive” speech and/or writing and/or cartoons.
We’ve got PCSO’s as well, nasty little pocket ‘itlers, the lot of them.
An interesting interview with Sinead O’Connor on the pope and child abuse.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-sinead-qa25-2010mar25,0,5122266.story
“The pope, who spent years enforcing secrecy about child abuse in his church,’
http://www.paddydoyle.com/revealed-the-oath-brady-smyth-and-the-children- swore/
Sinead O’ Connor and Goldenbridge survivor Christine Buckley have both asked for the resignation of the pope.
“Independent & The Independent on Sunday … By John Cooney, Ruth Gledhill and Jill Sherman. Saturday March 27 2010 … The sources added that the Pope was considering the option of seeking Cardinal Brady’s …
http://www.independent.ie/…/pope-will-force-brady-to-resign-2114142.html -“
Ah, so the pope will have to been seen by the world to get his over kissed knuckleduster finger out on the Irish cardinal – in order to give an impression to the worldwide flock that he is actively doing something concrete about clerical abuse.
Nevertheless, it could be all just a scapegoat stunt to save his own papal bacon. The Irish must be punished for the outing of institutional and clerical abuse.
Methinks that the church could have been playing a waiting game to see whether the whole thing would die down in the aftermath of the Irish bishops’ meeting in Rome. When this did not transpire and the whole debacle escalated reared its ugly head in Germany – his own home territory – it got out completely out of hand and did not go according to rule. So the best option would be to for the pope go back to the one source of people’s ire – that being, Cardinal Brady, It would at least cool down the Irish, who are a thorn in its flesh?!