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4. augustus 2012, 21:57:39

The Col

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Onderwerp: Re: I wonder why gay people are so keen on joining such an iffy proposition other than for the legal aspects.

(V): Canadians seem much more interested in the preservation of the separation of church and state than the USA.You see far less advocacy from the church in political circles.Would our extreme right like to outlaw gay marriage? of course, but the discourse is far less rabid.If a Canadian politician was invoking the bible in regards to political issues, it wouldn't play well here , they would be regulated to fringe stays.Our politicians have no shortage of issues to screw up, but religion doesn't tend to be one of them

5. augustus 2012, 12:01:19

Mort

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Onderwerp: Re: I wonder why gay people are so keen on joining such an iffy proposition other than for the legal aspects.

The Col: The only influence directly the UK's clergy has, is in the House of Lords. These are Bishops, but they only account for 3% of the members of that chamber. N' they are of course from the Church of England, our national faith as set up by King Henry VIII so he could get divorced.

We do have extreme right wing Christians, but they do tend to be based on imported evangelical ministries via the USA, or USA taught African churches. Yet the same laws that have worked on the Extreme Muslim Clerics apply to them.

Our MP's and Lords (other than the Bishops) would never use the Bible as a means to get votes, the British public just wouldn't wear it. We know full well from history (as it is taught in school) what extreme Christianity can do. We had Cromwell and the likes of James I ... Even Queen Mary found that once the CoE was formed she could not turn the country back to Catholicism and gave up.

Religions are kept to being of spirituality, their proper place.