Catholic bishops are really opposing Labour and the Greens
Today, all Catholic priests were told by their bishops to read a letter to the Masses opposing MPs who vote for the Civil Union Bill this week. The letter requested that parishoners note if their own MP votes for the bill this week . If they do, the implication was that they should not get a vote by a Catholic at the next election.
Catholics bishops are opposed to any form of legal recognition for unmarried couples - both gay and straight. So what have they said to regular MP Mass attenders such as Peter Dunne and Gordon Copeland, who support legal recognition of unmarried relationships - will they do a pulpit instruction to vote them down as well come the vote for the other bill?
Given that the Civil Union Bill is Labour Party policy and given that all Labour list MPs were told to support the bill, this statement is in reality a request to avoid casting a list vote for Labour or Green parties at the next election -as well as the candidates in the other parties that vote for the bill. Gay Marriage is Green party policy.
So why didn't they instruct all parishoners not to vote Green and Labour - as well as those who voted for the CUB in other parties? Could it be that bishops do not know that the party vote is the most important vote under MMP?
2 comments:
I think you are right they don't know it is the most important vote.
I think all christians shouldn't give any parties who vote for this their vote and especially any individuals.
But then I think the catholic church needs to hand over it's leaders who covered up the homosexuals amongst their clergy who sodomised so many young boys.
also those men who raped little girls too though i suspect those were fewer.
I'd love to see impartial figures as to the breakdown but the bishops wouldn't have the nerve to do that either.
best
Mike.
Hello? According to mainstream pediatricians, paedophiles tend to be more united by their particular predatory paraphilia, which is interest in child sexual abuse, rather than the gender of the offender.
I happen to believe in severity and parity in cases of incest and paedophilia. No matter what the gender of the offender, or the age or gender of the victim, the offender must be treated with the full severity of law.
And as for parity, see my comments immediately above.
The AIDS Foundation and lesbian/gay youth groups are strongly opposed to paedophilia, and some fundamentalist and evangelical Christians supported Peter Ellis' continual grandstanding. I did not.
It is erroneous to imply that the New Zealand gay community approves of paedophilia. Calum Bennachie of the Prostitutes Collective strongly opposes child pornography and child prostitution, as do I.
Craig
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