Roman Catholics tend to be working class and tend to vote Labour; some families may have achieved middle class incomes and professional statuses as lawyers or doctors or academics, but their essential class base is derived from their family histories. They are the migrant Irish of the last 150 years who have settled permanently in England and Scotland. Because they are Roman Catholic they marry in, to other Roman Catholics; and because they are working class they tend not to marry up, into the remnants of the English Catholics, who are few and socially grand.
The attempt to force through the hybrid bill on Human Fertilisation by confounding within it desirable reforms as well as moral obscenities is typical of New Labour unattractive, patronizing slyness; at the same time, relying on the tribal Labour instincts of all Labour supporters, including its many Roman Catholic supporters to get away with this is a measure of the Junta's intelligence.
They have set one form of Catholic tribalism - the faith of our fathers, living still in spite of dungeon, fire and sword - against the other form of Catholic tribalism - I shall vote Labour because deep in my heart I am a conservative - at least a social conservative. And when conflicted, the good Catholic turns to the Cardinal Archbishop for guidance - it is one of the consolations of the Faith that such guidance is always there and always given - and follows that guidance.
A good Roman Catholic does not turn to a Protestant Scot with a public record of immoral attitudes to family life implemented for over ten years, who assists in the undermining of Catholic schools and a Catholic upbringing, and who wishes to force all of us into the acceptance of a sin so grave as the crossing of human with other species' life forms.
The pressure to remove Brown and his junta from the leadership and control of the Labour party will be exerted by every means, private, personal, formal, institutional, by associations, and organisations, from every parish in the country.
The man is an occasion of sin.
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... and the current concession is that those who find this experimentation offensive to their conscience, may abstain from the vote. What happened to positively standing up against evil?
And why only Roman Catholics? What is the position of Dr Rowan Williams? Has he said something significant about this, but failed to get it through the media?
http://tinyurl.com/3bz5es
Brown is with the werewolves on this one.
What the Head of the Anglican Church thinks is damaged, too, by his remarks about different faiths and their assimilation into the legal rules of the state He speaks with a voice that raises doubt for many, perhaps.
I don't believe it is only Catholics who abhor these actions, but each will have their own prism through which to view and decide what they will do. The Good doesn't exist only for those who have a God nor is it practiced only by believers is it S,?
The argument that creating, experimenting on, and then destroying chimeras is justified because treatments could be found for diseases is wholly unfounded. There are other means to conduct this research and even if there were not, some actions are not justified even in the attempt to avoid suffering.
The link isn't working, L.
What has he done now?
Sorry HG, it needs copying and pasting :-( A bit of satire for you.
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