A Catholic legislator in the State of Illinois incorrectly asserts that the Holy Father supports, or at least does not oppose, his own advocacy of the extension of legal marriage to same-sex couples.
That is international news, as well it might be.
And as ought to be, but never is, Catholic politicians' pursuit of economic policies and of wars at variance with the Teaching of the Church.
They are exactly as wrong as each other.
They are exactly as wrong as each other.
Since when have Catholic politicians actually behaved like Catholics?
ReplyDeleteThe last Labour leader to win an election became a Catholic,-and promptly closed every Catholic adoption agency in Britain.
Gordon Brown went so far as to offer to change the rules on succession in a desperate electoral ploy; "vote Gordon Brown-get a Catholic King!".
Labour was, of course, terrified its Catholic voters might be upset that it was attacking faith schools, closing Catholic adoption agencies and making it all but illegal to express Christian opinions in the workplace (the principle purpose of the Equalities Act).
Pretending to be pro-Catholic to get Catholic votes-Labour pioneered the trick.
Give Blair his due. He doesn't deserve much, but give him this: he closed the Catholic adoption agencies years before he became a Catholic.
ReplyDeleteThat move has not been reversed, of course.
Labour's (however nominal) Catholic base, like its self-defining working-class base, is tighter than the Conservatives', or UKIP's, vaguely Anglican and vaguely middle-class ones.
Catholics and working-class people really know that they are, even if they are the only people who think that they are, and it really matters to them that they are.
Those are not the entirety of the core Labour vote. But they are key components of it. And they have no parallel elsewhere.
The funny thing was, they claim Blair was secretly Catholic all those years.
ReplyDeleteWell, all I can say is, he was in one hell of a good disguise.
As for Catholic Labour voters-if any Christian votes for Labour (or, indeed votes for the Tories after Cameron's behaviour) then they are monumentally stupid.
I can't imagine any good Catholic could any longer vote for a party that joined Cameron to complete the sexual revolution, bulldozing through gay marriage with the support of all three party leaders.
Crikey, by the way, I hope you didn't catch Owen Jones on grammar schools on BBC Radio 4. Clueless.
He really needs to read The Broken Compass.
So do you, I expect.
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