A very bad argument from the point of view of certain on the left I mean. She still hasn’t quite grasped that what the Catholic Archbishops are saying about politicians and abortion is not something new, it’s the established view of that curch. If you procure, take part in or vote for abortion then you have excommunicated yourself from the Church. You should not, thus, take Communion until you have been to confession and asked for forgiveness of that sin.
All very simple and it’s about the rules of being a Catholic, nothing else.
However, the argument that ought to really rather rile people is this one:
How many MPs are elected because they are Catholic, not because they
are Labour or Conservative? The answer, of course, is none. There are a
mere 4.2 million Catholics in Britain.
4.2 million eh? 7.2% of the population? Now, as it happens, I agree. Politics is politics and it certainly ain’t religion (we’ve managed to avoid the Northern Irish experience, thank goodness).
But, err, Asians (ethnically) make up 4% of the population, blacks 2% and ethnic minorities in total 7.9%. Yet we have endless campaigns telling us that this is in some way a horror, that we are denying people "their representation" because the proportion of people from those groups in Parliament is less than their proportion in the country at large.
Either we have group rights, in which the 7.2% of Catholics have to weigh as heavily upon the law as the 7.9% of ethnic backgrounds, or we do not have such group rights, we just have politics.
I prefer the latter of course, once we’ve got over the minor matter that Catholics are the only remaining group it is legal to discriminate against.
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