Synod vote. No clergy in the BNP.

[puffin]

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The Church of England today voted overwhelmingly in favour of moves to ban clergy from belonging to the British National Party .

On the second day of the General Synod, the legislative body that meets twice a year, more than 300 of the 418 members gathered in Westminster endorsed a motion asking the House of Bishops to keep BNP members out of the church.

The members wanted a policy similar to that adopted by the Association of Chief Police Officers, which bars police from belonging to an organisation that "contradicts the general duty to promote race equality".

www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/feb/10/general-synod-bnp-vote

[mingthemerciless]

That'll have the members of the BNP aghast with consternation!

Theres a few other places I would like to see them ban their clergy from too - schools for one!

[sweet soul]

Silly clergy.
Who will defend the church against sharia lovin nutters when they vote like backward thinking control freaks.
Oh well...

[vania]

I'm surprised that a ban was necessary. I do wonder how a member of the Church could reconcile their faith to their BNPism.

Seems strange to me.

[sweet soul]

Only 5 members of C of E was in the BNP anyhow.

[sweet soul]

God didnt live in England.
These religous types are living in a time warp.

[Libby]

It's true - religion and politics just don't mix!

[sweet soul]

True. And the 5 bnp clergy will still be able to support or vote bnp, they cant stop anyone doing that! Control freaks.

[skyways]

It's true - religion and politics just don't mix

Hmm, do you think you could please convince such as 'Iran' and all the other Muslim countries of that?

[Libby]

I wish it were that simple skyways!

[sweet soul]

The clergy are not god! They are just normal blokes wearing frocks laying down the law in the name of what?
Yes jesus existed! Then he died!
Now normel men wanna walk around in dresses preaching wot they assume jesus might have wanted!
Well sorry but this is now 2009.
Jesus is dead!
And normal men cant boss folks around!
I would tell the clergys, Get a real job!

[puffin]

Feb 10, 2009 21:10:06 GMT sweet soul said:

Only 5 members of C of E was in the BNP anyhow.

General Synod member Vasantha Gnanadoss, who works for the Metropolitan police service, will call for a similar ban to apply to all clergy, ordinands and employed lay persons who speak on behalf of the Church of England.

In a background paper to her private members motion, Gnanadoss said such action would make it "much more difficult" for the BNP or other similar organisations to exploit the claim that there are Anglican clergy or church representatives who support them.

"Of specific relevance to this motion are some of the tactics adopted by the BNP, which in recent years has sought to identify itself as Christian and sometimes specifically with the Church of England, in order to further its agenda," she said.

The motion comes after a list of 12,000 names and addresses of BNP membership was posted on the internet in November.

Five "Reverends" were identified on the list, but the Church of England said none were licensed or serving Anglican clergy although one was a retired priest.

The call from Gnanadoss, who is from the south London diocese of Southwark, comes after several denunciations of the BNP by senior church figures.

The Archbishop of York, the Right Rev John Sentamu, took out an advertisement in the local newspaper in 2007 urging voters in the local elections to come out against the BNP and warning that they risked sleepwalking into a "wall of hate".

www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jan/19/church-bnp-ban

[sweet soul]

Anyone can vote bnp. Anyone can vote for any party they wish. Men in frocks wont alter anything.

[voice]

Anyone can vote bnp

but so very few do, cant see the thing one set of irelevants cant belong to an even more irrelevant bunch

[lala]

* is amused by SS's continual, shrill assertions that this doesn't matter at all *

The lady doth protest too much.

[sweet soul]

Ha. Lala must be a member of the clergy! Figures!

[sweet soul]

I enjoy protesting if thats wot u wanna call it. Thats wot this place is for lala.
As u know cos u do plenty yourself :-)

[voice]

endless drivel ss is about all you ever manage, why you are incapable of putting all your drivel in one post intead of making threads long winded

[sweet soul]

Wots up you big moaner. If you dont like my ' style ' thats tuff :-)

[voice]

I give not a toss about you or your style, I rearlyl even galnce at what passes for your posts ss
never had much time for racists to be truthfull, more so ones who are so dishonst with their bigotry