Post by IrishMauddib on Nov 6, 2008 10:56:53 GMT
A letter to the irish independant:
Someone should really take Cardinal Sean Brady aside and explain to him that Hallowe'en is over and he can no longer pass from one jurisdiction within the United Kingdom to another in the Republic of Ireland scaremongering that the bogeyman is going to get everyone if the Government therein does not do exactly what the Catholic Church wants. ('Church will go to court over marriage rights bill', Irish Independent, November 5).
This was precisely Cardinal Brady's church's Balkrickian cunning plan which failed so miserably in the Divorce Referendum in 1995, and one is surprised to see it given another run-out.
The Republic has increasingly matured politically in the intervening decade and the day is now long past when it was commonly accepted that Catholic dogma should automatically become State writ.
If the Catholic Church is unable to control its members' conduct through its own teachings, example and sanctions, why should the State be expected to do the job for it?
Moreover, why should it feel it has the right to impose Catholic dogma on Protestants, Jews, Muslims, agnostics, atheists and everyone else?
Nigel P Cooke
Pro, Divorce Action Group 1995
St Helens
Lancashire
Someone should really take Cardinal Sean Brady aside and explain to him that Hallowe'en is over and he can no longer pass from one jurisdiction within the United Kingdom to another in the Republic of Ireland scaremongering that the bogeyman is going to get everyone if the Government therein does not do exactly what the Catholic Church wants. ('Church will go to court over marriage rights bill', Irish Independent, November 5).
This was precisely Cardinal Brady's church's Balkrickian cunning plan which failed so miserably in the Divorce Referendum in 1995, and one is surprised to see it given another run-out.
The Republic has increasingly matured politically in the intervening decade and the day is now long past when it was commonly accepted that Catholic dogma should automatically become State writ.
If the Catholic Church is unable to control its members' conduct through its own teachings, example and sanctions, why should the State be expected to do the job for it?
Moreover, why should it feel it has the right to impose Catholic dogma on Protestants, Jews, Muslims, agnostics, atheists and everyone else?
Nigel P Cooke
Pro, Divorce Action Group 1995
St Helens
Lancashire