Nope To Pope

The Pope’s planned visit to Britain was recently accompanied with an attack on the UK’s new equality laws. He told a collection of British Bishops to resist the laws with “missionary zeal” as they violated “natural law”. The legislation is designed to prevent discrimination against gays and women in the workplace. Essentially, the laws are uncontroversial unless you maintain bigoted medieval superstitions.

According to the BBC, Ratzinger said "Yet, as you have rightly pointed out, the effect of some of the legislation designed to achieve this goal has been to impose unjust limitations on the freedom of religious communities to act in accordance with their beliefs.”

Bear in mind that the beliefs in question would be abhorrent to anyone not blinded by religious dogma. Religions have demanded exemption from common law since secularism has been around. The law is reflection of that shifting ‘moral zeitgeist’. The fact the leader of an enormous faith is resisting it simply shows once more that Catholics are on the wrong side of history.

Andy Armitage over at the Pink Triangle blog has given the Ratzinger or ‘Ratzo’ what for and rallies bloggers to oppose the Pope’s statements. In his post entitled 'Enter the monster - but let's not make it easy for him' he writes:

I suspect websites and blogs will be ablaze between now and September, when it’s thought this insult to human rights, human dignity and all that is decent will be allowed to place his jackboots on our soil. All power to their keyboards. Let us send an unequivocal message to the Vatican and to our own pusillanimous leaders that this evil obscenity is not wanted here by anyone but misguided Catholics and other members of the Deluded Herd...

In the meantime, please sign this petition urging the Pope to pay for his own visit to UK, rather than the bill being picked up by the UK taxpayer.