I have been in regular contact with Anglican Leaders and the Church is taking a led that clearlky will surprise many of thoise who have a rabid dislike of christianity

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Your need for a protector is probably just as inherent. What isn't inherent is your religion – that is learned.

I can't be other than a gay man (even if I married)

You can't be other than someone who needs someone to lean on (an omnipotent sky-daddy). The difference is that I don't expec tmy sexuality to give me special rights.

And why should the church speak out: well it would have been loud and vocal if it had been an ethnic crime; and the crap that came out of the Lambeth conference this week tends to validate even the ostensibly godless.

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Well, only in the same sense that homosexuality is. In the sense that I choose to go to Church (or not), and you choose whether (or not) to have sex with men. You choose to identify as a gay man, and I choose to identify as an Anglican, and both are contingent, constructed categories. But to claim that the impulses which make you love men and me love God are "a personal choice" is absurd.

Why the Church should speak out on this particular, very sad, case I'm not quite sure. Do we assume that Mr causer's murderers were bastions of the Church? In case you hadn't noticed, the vast majority of the violent homophobia in this country has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with a boozy macho-culture that some might call utterly godless.

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I don’t usually get involved with arguing with ninnies like ‘Hank’ or the MadPriest but when these murders occur it underscores the fact that the murderers are not just the thugs, they’re also the people who abet and empower their violence by creating a social and political atmosphere of hatred and bigotry.

Superstition, which some people mistakenly refer to by it's dressed up Sunday-go-to-meeting name, religion, is, after disease, humankinds greatest tragedy. Its institutions, the cults, are instruments of social backwardness, war and defense of the old order.

Its practioneers are, without exception, parasites, emotional retards and intellectual cripples. Their 'good deeds' and “neighborly love” are lost in a sea of bigotry, parasitism, racism and opposition to movements’ for real social change. And yes, that includes mother theresa.

Two groups are directly and intimately responsible for the murder of Michael Causer. First are the cults, catholic, protestant, muslim, etc., who generate a steady drumbeat of hatred and bigotry. It can be the direct bigotry of the pope, an ayatollah or an Akinola. Or it can be the more subtle knife-in-the-back sort so expertly practiced by Rowan Williams. The anglican cult no longer burns us at the stake, now they’re limited to endlessly repeating the idea that we’re not fit to be treated like other citizens.

The other groups are Conservative politicians who, like Williams, find it expedient, for now, not to advocate state violence against us but who also say we are not equal to other citizens and who continue, with their siblings in the BNP and the DUP to oppose robust enforcement of anti-discrimination and anti-hate speech laws. Opposition to full civil rights and liberties for the LGBT communities is bigotry, and encourages thugs.

It’s too bad that the anti-clerical ideas of French Revolution didn’t spread further before they were betrayed by Napoleon. In France, the anti-clerical use of the National Razor had the outstanding effect of permanently ‘calming’ the howling madness of even the most bigoted prelate and had a dazzling deterrent effect as well. That’s what I call lovely.

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Take the "Church of England". It is supposedly 'Christian'
Let's check the Christian commandments – their Prophet's instructions:

A christian – protects the weak, does not oppress others
gives his surplus to the needy, lives `as the poor' – not gathering in stores of money/possessions.

Their Prophet's specific order to those who would preach Christianity? "Give all your possessions to the poor – and follow me".

So, according to the Christan faith:-

Christians give their surplus funds to feed the poor;
Christian priests must give all their worldly wealth to the poor.

Does the Church of England obey these rules?
Are they genuine followers of Christ? A resounding NO!

Norman Baker, Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes, once condemned their spending policies:-

"The Church of England seems to have got its priorities very wrong. It is keener to keep a handful of bishops living in luxury than it is preventing churches from closing. I would be interested to find in scripture a justification for the way in which they are behaving."

Well, let's see: latest annual accounts show the 114 Bishops spent £23.5 million on themselves, and £5.7 million on their 'palaces' (bishops' houses) and cathedrals (bishops' churches).

And personal luxuries? Check the record:-
Last year details were released of an "Appendix IV", which detailed the disparities in personal costs of the Bishops.
The cheapest bishop cost £34,745, the most expensive cost £138,713.

That money, all of it, comes from a TAX-EXEMPT source, i.e. it's being supplied by the working poor and even the unemployed, the real net taxpayers of Britain, while richer people – like politicians and the corrupt Church of England – pay no net tax at all, i.e. they are net takers from the poor and the middle incomed.

Those unfair, regressive and pervert tax rates are fixed and agreed by the British "legislature". The Bishops of the Church of England are voting members of that "legislature" – the House of Lords (Senate).

The British tax system began in 1945/6, theoretically taxing everyone equally. But the powerful and the wealthy soon started to avoid taxation.

The Church of England instituted the "Church Commissioners" in 1948
to evade taxes, i.e. to avoid giving to the poor

Earlier the `Church of England' was an active participant in the Slave Trade and actually demanded compensation (paid out of poor people's taxes) when the evil trade was abolished.

Also,it violently opposed anti-pedophile legislation during the time of Jack-the-Ripper, and within recent times, until revealed by media attention, the Church of England was Britain's cruelest and greediest slum-landord.

It is clear that when they're allowed to,the Bishops remain secretly selfish, pervert and evil.

Let's check the Bishops' obedience of 'christian' rules.

How much of the Bishops' time is spent caring for the poor ?

How many palatial Church of England buildings shelter the poor ?

How much ill-gotten Church wealth feeds/clothes the poor?

Answer: NONE!

As you can see, the bishops of the Church of England are hypocrites, liars and thieves – and malfeasant. All the Bishops are knowingly oppressing the poor.

Therefore they operate under false pretence and cannot be called 'Christian' unless by other hypocrites and liars. Being frauds they are not entitled to any power or any tax 'privileges'

They are criminals, members of a tax-avoiding elite, and would be prosecuted and punished in a fair or moral state. Many of them were/are even among the worst criminals of all. Hypocrisy knows no bounds.

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And I am suspicious of the councillor in Liverpool who thinks that a protest march or demonstration will only stir up more homophobia. Remember Stonewall! You have to really kick up stink and BOTHER people to bring about change.

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