http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/100027407/labour-the-natural-party-of-religious-believers-suddenly-nero-is-chasing-the-christian-vote/
“Keith Cardinal O’Brien, Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, was monumentally unimpressed by these overtures. He said that, under the government of Murphy’s party, the country had witnessed a “systematic and unrelenting attack on family values”. To paraphrase the Cardinal’s further remarks, apart from embryo experimentation, massive abortion rates, civil partnerships and same-sex adoption, what has Labour ever done to offend the Romans?”
Oh dear me the sky is falling the Labour Party of the UK is standing up for human rights. If they have to offend a few uptight religious nuts to do so, then so be it. I applaud the actions of the Labour Party for taking a stand and not allowing religious interests to interfere with the push towards a secular society.
“It is time for Christians to take the offensive.” All those who believe in secularism, Christians included, should be prepared to stand against any Christian who seeks break down the wall between Church and State. Warner’s article comes off as a thinly-veiled call for a theocracy in the UK. He seems to believe that opposition to tax breaks for married couples is a direct to the faithful. Marriage should not be rewarded by the state. He complains about the state’s secular influence on Catholic schools (if they are going to get state funding they must follow state rules), yet he’d have no problem with the state creating rules that would encourage/force people to live by a religious agenda. Under a very specific religion I might add.
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