Synod vote. No clergy in the BNP.

[sweet soul]

Nite nite sleep tight, watch the bnp dont bite :-)

[KrispyKoala]

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

Religion and Humanity don't Mix

[VikingHumpingWitch]

Another nail in the coffin for the BNP's failed attempt to look respectable. Even the CofE sees them for a bunch of racist thugs you wouldn't want to touch with a bargepole.

[sweet soul]

i doubt the bnp will be affected by the men in frocks attempt to be PC and against free choice of who to be a member of

[sweet soul]

thing is, you can support any party you wish.....and vote for who ever you wish... so the synod dont really matter with their views?

[dwad]

I can't really imagine why any clergy would want to join the BNP (and it seems there is only about half a person this applies to), but it really bugs me when people ban a legtimate legal party. I think it's a real kick for free speech and probably makes it all the more appealing.

[sweet soul]

Yea. Bnp a legit party in the UK. What they gonna do sack bnp members. I saw Robert West on tv on sunday, hes a C of E reverend ? Does he not have a right to do what he wants politicaly?

[flatandy]

So, members of tin pot group of irrational nutters representing a tiny minority of the British public but slightly dangerous to public life not allowed to be members of a different tin pot group of irrational nutters representing a tiny minority of the British public but slightly dangerous to public life.

Shock!

[Rude Eric]

this is just spin and a sly cover upo. most of them will join. wee now that most of them are out and out tory toffs.

[puffin]

The BNP is NOT the Tory party, eric. And, actually, most of the clergy I know lean towards Labour or the Liberals.

[lala]

it really bugs me when people ban a legtimate legal party. I think it's a real kick for free speech and probably makes it all the more appealing.

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They aren't 'banning the BNP,' Dwad, they are saying, "If you want to be in our club, you have to stick by the rules, and one of those rules is that you can't be a member of that club, because to be in that club you have to believe or think things that mean you can't be in our club."

Just like you can' be a Pretestant and a Catholic at the same time, or a Christian and a Marxist. If you accept one set of principles, it excludes holding another.

[thenomad]

IMO a particular religion poses a far greater threat to the country than the BNP ever will. Yet no one would dare to suggest that membership of an intollerent, anti-democratic, nasty death cult should be banned from public life.

[VikingHumpingWitch]

I suspect that the CofE Synod probably does have restrictions on its clergy being Muslims.

[lala]

How totally intolerant of them.

[vania]

Feb 11, 2009 10:10:14 GMT dwad said:

I can't really imagine why any clergy would want to join the BNP (and it seems there is only about half a person this applies to), but it really bugs me when people ban a legtimate legal party. I think it's a real kick for free speech and probably makes it all the more appealing.

If the church can bar people from its clergy based on gender and sexuality I see no reason why political beliefs should be exempt.