"I see no caliphates in Rome! Iains No - but I see a Catholic hierarchy which whisch facilitated and covered up for the rape of children throughout the twentieth cetury and which is now attempting to influence by way of spiritual blackmail one of the most important decisions ever taken by the Irish people Because of the Clerical abuse revelations and their opposition to same-sex marriage, religion is gradually bening written out of decision making in Ireland Later this year it will lose the right to demand baptismal rights in the 90 plus% of Irish schools it controls Religion is a dying malignant force - not before time, and you want a bible-bashing fundamentalist caricature for a prime minister!!! For the hope of the present generation, I hope you fall at this particular fence, but in the long term, maybe it's not a bad idea Perhaps then, Britain can start to clean out its political Augian Stable of the dross that has accumulated over the centuries Religion is dead - it's bad luck to bring a corpse into the house Jim Caarroll
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