Threatening politicians with excommunication for exercising the will of the people and human rights...

Why would the politicians be concerned about that? I hear rational people ask..

Are you sure church membership is a take it or leave it adult choice Joe?

Joe asked if anyone had read the book or seen the film Philomena. I had already used it to argue my point. Are you sure you have read it Joe? Did you not feel Philomena was vulnerable when in light of the evidence, the callous disregard for her and her son and all the rotten rest of it, she still had misgivings about questioning the Catholic Church and its works?

The point, especially the film point Steve Coogan made, was the hold the church has on people allows such things to happen. Brainwashing from birth, small children forced to wear brides costumes in a grotesque ritual, mea culpa, Papal infallibility....

Ordinary people who choose to follow the faith should be asking why their faith is being distorted by criminals, even now. I notice the ex head Catholic in Scotland has been whisked off to somewhere abroad where the police here can't find him, for fucks sake, and that was just covering up for abusing boys, a simple sin by their standards. That he was threatening the government over gay marriage just before being exposed was worthy of a grim smile on the part of decent people.