The blog I wrote earlier last week commenting on Ruth Kelly's resignation from Government has been picked up by the Catholic newspaper, The Universe. I am disapointed by the quotes in that article by Jim Dobbin MP and Stephen Pound MP.
Kelly critic should sacked by Labour - MP
It is a real shame that The Universe did not research or report their story accurately enough to include the contents of the blog I wrote just a few days later, which congratulated Downing Street for their excellent plans to end the 300 year old exclusion of Catholics from the throne.
I strongly repeat that I am not anti-Catholic, prejudiced against any religion or have in anyway ever sought to intentionally offend anyone.
The Embryology Bill is an extremely important piece of legislation, to women and their families. It is contained in the Labour manifesto on which the party was elected this term.
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Mary,
You say the Embryology Bill was in the Labour Manifesto on which the party was elected. Could you say where exactly please? I have had a quick look and can't see it.
Many thanks
Aah, the Labour manifesto "ON WHICH THE PARTY WAS ELECTED THIS TERM?" (My emphasis)
The same worthless document that promised a referendum on the changing face of Europe?
(One of your correspondents used the phrase "a Woolworth's Pick'n'Mix" on a different matter.)
Mary Honeyball, you seem to think that by believing Catholics should be allowed on the throne again makes everything all right with your previous comments.
You wrote on that post:
"I am against certain dogmas proclaimed by the Catholic Church where they undermine and attack the lives and aspirations of women."
I'm not a Catholic, but I guess you mean it's terrible to deny a woman the 'right' to have her unborn children killed by chemical or surgical means or the 'right' to deny her children a father.
What more can a woman aspire to than to marry a good man and bear his children?
What more can a man aspire to than to find a righteous woman?
New Labour has been systematically destroying the laws and institutions that have protected family life.
Who wins in New Labour's New Britain?
Not men, not women and not children, because the natural place to be is in a family - for love, friendship, support and security.
New Labour and the EU have created tensions between people through divide and rule tactics.
I am not saying that everyone has always been treated fairly, that would be ridiculous, but to try and address certain issues by destroying decent society itself is beyond gross negligence - it is either wilful destruction or unparalleled ignorance.
Either way, I reckon there are many in your Party guilty of crimes against humanity, not only with regards to the unwarranted warmongering.
As for your insistence that everyone in the Party must toe the line on the Government's social engineering projects, you are probably aware of Conor McGinn who resigned as vice chairman of Young Labour because of hostility towards Catholics and the pro-life movement.
As he rightly said about the Embryology Bill, it is "an issue of conscience and not party politics."
He also quoted you, Mary Honeyball, as describing Catholicism as having a "a "vice-like grip" across Europe, and accusing Catholics of "interfering in the democratic process".
So, only people or organisations who agree with the Government are allowed to have a say in this 'democracy'?
You are reported to have said that "democracy and religion do not mix."
When one considers the surveillance society and squads of state snoopers; fingerprinting of children at school; banning people from taking photographs; the many arrests of law-abiding citizens making a stand; turning of the state into a surrogate parent and allowing the 'authorities' to execute people like Jean Charles de Menezes, would you say the country is becoming more like East Germany or Stalin's Russia?
Or potentially even worse?
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