Not Conducive To The Public Good

Dr Rowan Williams has not invited Gene Robinson (who left his wife and children for the homosexual nightclub scene - contrast Jeffrey John, who has never married) to next year's somewhat improbable Lambeth Conference. But among the bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America are persons who need trouble, not only the Archbishop of Canterbury, but the Home Secretary. Their stated views on Africans, in particular, call for Exclusion Orders such as are already in force against their compatriots, David Duke and Louis Farrakhan.

The same may be said of Hans Küng, Swiss although long resident in Germany, and thus not an EU national. Küng's views on the late Pope John Paul the Great's Polishness made, and make, him the authentic voice of the age-old Teutonic racism against the Slavs; he only gets away with it because he is Swiss. His latest book seems to suggest that he has converted to Islam, albeit an Islam of his own devising; the view that the Fall of Vienna to the Turks, and the consequent Islamisation of German-speaking Europe, would have precluded the decadence and decay purportedly necessitating his own rise was periodically expressed by the best-known historical voice of that same age-old Teutonic racism against the Slavs...

If the political price of these Orders were to be the issuing of the same against those African prelates who expressed the opposing view on homosexuality in terms also least in keeping with our own conventions for even the most robust of debates (and we Britons undervalue our national tradition on this score), then so be it.