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There were a number of interesting articles in The Economist on Scottish Independence and one was quite amusing: http://www.economist.com/node/21552572 “The economics of home rule: Scotland could probably go it alone now, but the economics of independence are steadily worsening”.

Quite hilariously I got involved in a “comments war” in the reader’s comments section but I must confess that whilst Scots Nats always have a chip on their shoulders, I really didn’t realise what had set them off until the next day. Because I read on line, I didn’t see the “tongue in cheek” map of Scotland the Economist had put on its cover which along with the headline “It will cost you…” also renamed it Skintland…

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It often seems that the basic requirement for a politician is to be totally stupid as is clearly demonstrated by the uttering s of both Lynne Featherstone and Nick Herbert on the question of gay marriage who are displaying the same degree of arrogance over this issue as Gordon Brown did over the Lisbon Treaty. It seems the biggest problem with the average MP once they get a red dispatch box is that they think they can walk on water and become bullies to the rest of us.

I have often fought David Cameron’s corner with the awful denizens of the Telegraph’s comments section because my view was that he was a decent fellow and a “One Nation Tory” but sadly, I am coming to the view that I may be wrong he seems constantly “behind the curve” on so many things, he will need a lot luck to get a second term, is for sure, he is starting to look wobbly.

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There was a most extraordinary article in the Press the other day which was headlined as follows:

“Killing babies no different from abortion, experts say. Parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are “morally irrelevant” and ending their lives is no different to abortion, a group of medical ethicists linked to Oxford University has argued.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9113394/Killing-babies-no-different-from-abortion-experts-say.html

The article, entitled “After-birth abortion: Why should the baby live?”, was written by two Professors who have apparently since decamped to live in Australia, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva.

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It has always been a major problem on the political Left for them to grasp the idea that one should aim to “level up” instead of “levelling down”. You do not remove discrimination and enhance ideas of equality by impinging on other people’s freedoms. This was one the consequences of the legislation that in effect outlawed Catholic (or any other faith), Adoption Agencies that on the grounds of conscience and religious conviction, could not place children with Gay Couples.

This was a very poor piece of legislation which arose from “happy clappy liberals” combined with politicians seeking any vote they can but, in trying to “normalise” homosexuality they in the process have ignored the fundamentals of liberty including for Gay people themselves.

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Baroness Warsi who is leading a Government delegation to the Vatican to commemorate the 30^th anniversary of the re-establishment of full diplomatic representation between the UK and the Vatican, wrote an interesting article for the Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9080441/We-stand-side-by-side-with-the-Pope-in-fighting-for-faith.html

What she had to say was very sensible in that she was saying that Christianity should stand up proudly rather than be swamped by militant secularists. Her particularly good comment was: “…you cannot and should not extract these Christian foundations from the evolution of our nations any more than you can or should erase the spires from our landscapes.”

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I will start by saying that having been born and brought up as a Roman Catholic, I have a strong aversion to abortion whilst accepting that there may well be cases where Doctors might consider it an appropriate “therapy”. But that said, if life is sacrosanct then mealy mouthed descriptions of exactly when an embryo becomes “real” do rather leave me cold.

The perception of ‘exception’ fades into insignificance when in the UK there are 200,000 abortions a year which apparently represents 20% of all pregnancies resulting in a “termination”, yet another mealy mouthed description. However, having made my position clear, I also think that it is a major mistake to present the arguments against abortion in a typical ‘Pro-Life’ fashion, that will never work in this society people need a broader base upon which to form an opinion.

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For sheer arrogance and nonsense, it would be hard to beat this editorial in the Independent last Monday morning: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-a-few-words-that-could-prove-a-revolutionary-moment-2140330.html

It had to have a response and it is sad I’m away for a few days because I’m sure that there will be lots of flack from other readers. However, N.B. Having returned from my travels, there was only one respondent and that of little comprehension, I couldn’t work out quite what they were trying to communicate in response to my comments but thought that in the end, they had ‘personal issues’ which seemingly are as yet, unresolved.

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It is both amusing if rather sad also that one only need put “Pope” somewhere in a headline to bring out a lot of lickspittle spite from those who are anti theist by default or those who consider themselves “far too intellectually smart”, no different whether in the reader’s columns of the Telegraph, Independent or Guardian.

I suppose my conclusion on these things is quite simple, the Pope must be doing something right to attract such mindless bile because the opposite of Love is not Hate, it is indifference.

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The aftermath of the Papal Visit is quite interesting on several levels and especially given the ‘trepidation’ that preceded it: Would the crowds turnout ? Would he be subject to constant and abusive protests from the “Protest the Pope” campaign ?

In the end whether just Catholics and the curious, massive crowds greeted him everywhere he went and the umbrella protest group, failed miserably in whatever aims, if any, they had and the ‘why’ might be worth examining, less to say “Ha, ha losers” but rather more to understand what it might indicate about the mood of the UK today.

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A news story on the BBC caught my attention concerning a “Gay Catholic Mass”: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11218791

With the upcoming visit of the Pope, it set me thinking around the issues concerning “Faith”, my own childhood and because I spent about 3 years as a doorman at a Gay bar, the position of Catholic Gays and specifically the English Catholic Dimension. Whilst to outsiders, I am sure that the Catholic Church seems both universal and monolithic, the reality is that the Church is highly diverse and the difference between nations and continents, can be quite marked.

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