The BBC take a break from the ongoing euthanasia campaign to point out in the Radio Four news headlines the dangers of ‘a meddlesome pontiff interfering in British law‘.
It’s not often that I hear a BBC newsreader emphasising the Britishness of anything. Could it be that at last we’re entering the new Elizabethan age ?
If the BBC has found some vestiges of British patriotism in itself, perhaps it can criticise the extension of E.U. power which is the office of the European Public Prosecutor:
“The very moment to put Europe in its place” (by Philip Johnson)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/philipjohnston/7125259/The-very-moment-to-put-Europe-in-its-place.html
The BBC actually said that?
As far as I can understand there is not one major religion that completely accepts homosexuality. The Abrahamic religions are traditionally hostile but the not-Abrahamic religions are at best neutral but mostly ignore the issue.
I expect we will hear from the first homosexual iman in the near future.
British law? Odd because the equality bill is actually the result of EU law – Directive 2002/73/EC. The Pope is critising the wrong government, not that the BBC is going to great pains to point that out.
On the Radio 5 phone in this morning Campbell totally dodged the issue of homosexuality and Islam. Now some beeboid lover will no doubt reply that the BBC were discussing a current news event. OK so why doesn’t the BBC ever do a phone in about homosexuality and Islam when the latest preacher of hate is calling for homosexuals to be thrown from cliff tops or the President of Iran is hanging them all?
This Pope does not speak lightly or in soundbites. His words must truly worry the liberal elites and I suspect they have no idea what to do other than try to ignore them or distort them.
I am not a Catholic but I well understand his meaning. He is charged with ensuring the continuation of the Church and it’s teachings into the far future. The Church will still be a living force when all the fashionable liberal doctrines are a footnote in history.
His words might appear mild but are unyielding as they must be.
The liberal state is taking upon itself the right to legislate over our conscience and in it’s embracing of euthanasia the right to decide when we should die.
This may well be a step too far for many of us.
Laban,
It’s not often that I hear a BBC newsreader emphasising the Britishness of anything.
Surely the one thing Beeboids have constantly emphasised as “British” is “tolerance”. Every time the BNP gets mentioned, or Islamo-nutters, or immigration, the Beeboids always say that Britain is the most tolerant country in the world, tolerance is very British, etc.
In this case, though, while I can understand the objection to the Pope meddling in British domestic politics (with the historical baggage and everything), the BBC’s coverage is slanted toward the negative. The segment on Today was a one-note affair: the Pope should not be interfering with British politics. Yes, they had on the Bishop of Westminster, but he was pretty useless (not the BBC’s fault, I know). All he really said was that he thinks it’s reasonable to let the Pope’s voice be heard. That has nothing to do with the actual nuts and bolts of the issue.
Can this new law be used to force the Church to hire openly practicing homosexuals and non-Catholics in its schools, or have openly homosexual or female priests? Is that a legitimate concern or not? We aren’t told. All I can see is that the Pope is against “Equality”, full stop, he’s meddling in British politics, and rights campaigners are angry.
Funny how the Toady programme has a series of drips on tap to rant and rave at any question regarding their homophilic agenda. The The National Secular Society and Peter Tatchell aren`t in agreement with the Pope?…hold the front page!
Still we get the reflex issue of bile that these liberal elitists can only muster when it comes to Christianity. Looking forward to the pageant of misfits who will join any protest at the Popes visit-should put the cause of multicultural tolerance back 40 years or so.
Something very creepy about these online rentagobs who seem to plenty time on their hands whilst the rest of us pay the taxes that keep them in clover-or is that lavender?
As the BBC softens us all up for eugenics by the back door(not enough abortions presumably!) we look forward to the rehabilitation of Harold Shipman who possibly was a mite zealous in jumping the gun in killing the old?
Talking of taxes, the visit of this vile former nazi and leader of the paedo-priests is going to cost us the taxpayer £20M; how much healthcare for our elderly would that buy?
The usual libleft style of argument. If you cannot discuss the substance of a man’s words resort to abuse
Actually, this Pope has done quite a bit to shut down the paedo-priest network. Contrary to his predecessor, of course. Did you object to a former Nazi – Kurt Waldheim, who was an adult Nazi soldier and complicit in war crimes – visiting the UK when he was Secretary General of the UN?
Believe it or not, Catholics also pay taxes.
A SPOOF item in this (by Cranmer):
http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2010/02/irans-supreme-leader-calls-on-british.html
The present Pope was never a paid up Nazi. When the time came for him to start his studies at seminary he could not get funding to do so. A sympathetic local officer arranged to have him sign up for the Nazi youth organization as a formality so that he could get the money (you had to be a member to be allowed to study – my ‘godparents’ were denied a university place because they weren’t). He was drafted to man a flak battery, but so was every able-bodied lad, even kids of 14 or younger. He knew the war was finished so he went AWOL as soon as he could and had a nasty moment when he met a patrol (anyone who deserted was shot on sight, or worse, even as late as April 1945). He had a bandage on his arm so they let him go.
Britannia,
Ha! It really is rich for the left to complain about anything on the pretext that it costs money.
Since when has the Left ever bothered their little cotton socks about how much anything ever costs the British taxpayer? The last 13 years have been a monument to Labour’s out of control spending and wanton excess.
If you want to make a point about costs, then how about the cost of over 10million for policing the G-20 summit last year? Value for money was it? And why is it that we can’t have a conference or any visits without the streets being swamped by left wing mobs geared up for trouble? Why should the taxpayer have to pay through the nose for keeping these socialist scumbags in check?
My preferred solution would be much cheaper – troops with tear gas and five or six heavy duty water cannons. More cost effective, and a sure-fire deterrent for the toerags plotting their next adventure in front of the cameras.
“A Conservative MP mentions honour-based violence against women. The BBC and Tories freak out”
(Douglas Murray)
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/douglasmurray/100024650/a-conservative-mp-mentions-honour-based-violence-against-women-the-bbc-and-tories-freak-out/
More hypocrisy streaming in from the Left………..
What’s the sudden concern about paedos, Britannia? Since when have the bleeding hearts on the Left ever worried about paedos flourishing in our midst? After all, whenever we do manage to incarcerate the scumbags, despite the best efforts of the Human Rights brigade, the Left does its level best to release them all out “into the community” for restorative justice almost as soon the cell door closes.
Lefties getting upset about the Pope getting involved in British politics? Come on all British have we all of a sudden, then?
Why don’t the whining scruffbags direct their bile on the real entity whose very existence is predicated upon it poking its craggy nose into every nook and cranny of British life? By that I mean the much unloved and unwanted EUSSR.