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| Christians 'aren't above the law', says equalities chief Trevor Phillips |
| 2012-02-17 |
| Christians who want to be exempt from equality legislation are like Muslims trying to impose sharia on Britain, Trevor Phillips, the human rights watchdog, has declared. Religious rules should end “at the door of the temple” and give way to the “public law” laid down by Parliament, the chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission said. He argued that Roman Catholic adoption agencies and other faith groups providing public services must choose between their religion and obeying the law when their beliefs conflict with the will of the state. Mr Phillips singled out the adoption agencies that fought a long legal battle to avoid being forced to accept homosexual couples under equality laws. Last year, following a High Court case, the Charity Commission ruled against an exemption for Catholic Care, an adoption agency operating in Leeds. Speaking at a debate in London on diverse societies, Mr Phillips backed the new laws, which led to the closure of all Catholic adoption agencies in England. “You can’t say because we decide we’re different then we need a different set of laws,” he said, in comments reported by The Tablet, the Catholic newspaper. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #13 The American Catholic Bishops have long supported all these leftists who hate everything about the church. The bishops like the sound of many of the elements of the leftist's espoused social agenda. For me most of these policies include a thin veneer of sanctimony over an underlying structure of cronyism and statism. The poor that the bishops hope to help instead become a dependent class of devotees to be milked for cash and votes. Most are degraded spiritually in ways that the bishops don't seem to connect to their leftist buddies. When the leftists periodically open their trench coats wide for all to see with some obvious anti-religion, the bishops pretend not to see as acting offended might be inconsistent with their policy of |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2012-02-17 22:48 |
| #12 hey now! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-02-17 21:25 |
| #11 Have those asshole start their own religion, like, Bestiality Without Borders Church of Frank/ Catholics United Faith in Public Life (Marxist/Communist) Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) Catholic Charities, USA (via CACG) Catholic Health Association Catholic Campaign for Human Development Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC) Catholics for a Free Choice Catholic Democrats National Association for Catholic Chaplains |
| Posted by: jack salami 2012-02-17 21:24 |
| #10 Humanism. He may be a stupid bastad, but by means of the rejection and/or destruction of belief that one is part of a larger sum than earthly experience, that person loses their individuality and merely beaten souless servants with nothing to look forward to the next day, including dreams, wealth, or freedom. Only toil, and toil the same field your lords let your great grandchildren toil. Perhaps you will have a son, who for a brief moment may have an existential thought before becoming blank eyed cannon fodder instead of broken at mid life. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2012-02-17 18:38 |
| #9 What g(r)omgoru said. So the religion of the left is what? Radical environmentalism. Atheism? Statism? Social engineering? Redistribution of wealth. Social justice? Class warfare? Racial politics? The guy is an idiot. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2012-02-17 17:03 |
| #8 When acceptance of immorality is mandated, and all elements of society obey, the gateway to darkeness and death is thrown wide open for that society. |
| Posted by: Marilyn Barnsmell7062 2012-02-17 14:21 |
| #7 Aye, but Islam is above UK law. Also, the EU. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2012-02-17 14:08 |
| #6 No, but they are capable of seeing an immoral law and refusing to obey. |
| Posted by: mojo 2012-02-17 12:11 |
| #5 Nor were those in Nazi Germany who opposed the government..like Rommel. |
| Posted by: jack salami 2012-02-17 10:47 |
| #4 They pulled off this same stunt in Illinois. This is forgotten in the current fight over requiring Catholic organizations to break their doctrines and support birth control and abortion. The left truly hates the Catholic church, and is attacking it from several directions: abortion, adoption, euthanasia, women and gay priests, etc. They truly hate the idea that others occupy the moral high ground. List of "Catholic" front organizations paid for by George Soros, through the Open Society Initiative: Catholics United Faith in Public Life (Marxist/Communist) Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) Catholic Charities, USA (via CACG) Catholic Health Association Catholic Campaign for Human Development Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC) Catholics for a Free Choice Catholic Democrats National Association for Catholic Chaplains List of all known Soros front organizations. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-02-17 09:33 |
| #3 Certain muslims seem to be in UK |
| Posted by: Gruth McGurque5303 2012-02-17 08:10 |
| #2 As Daniel Hannan so eloquently said, Britain is headed for the edge of the cliff, & looking in the rear view mirror they see the US trying to overtake them. Govt. attacks on Chritianity are just getting going here. If you care about religious freedom in the US, contact your Senators and support the Blunt Conscience amendment. Lets not ket the stupid bastards win here. |
| Posted by: Cincinnatus Chili 2012-02-17 07:49 |
| #1 Stupid bastard. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-02-17 06:34 |