There's an amazing battle going on in the UK right now. It's the Roman Catholic Church vs Gordon Brown's Labour Government over an Embryo Bill. I've posted a couple of times on this now, but haven't given you all a blow by blow account of what is going down over there. I certainly have been keeping track of it, though.
A couple of days ago there was an article about the Church being a serious irritant to Gordon Brown. It mentioned the strength of the RCC as a lobby group given there are 5 million Catholics now in the UK.
Then an article appeared last night that talked about the Embryo Bill being blasted from Catholic pulpits over Easter and how annoying this was for a number of scientists who want the bill to pass.
And today it looks like there has been a strategic backdown, where the Catholic Labour MPs against the bill will be allowed a free-vote.
The amusing thing in light of all this is that the Dominion Post has not a peep about any of this, and instead runs with an article from the UK on how Muslims will outnumber church going Catholics by a couple of thousand in the year 2020! Duh, people!
Related Link: Church wins battle over embryo Bill
A couple of days ago there was an article about the Church being a serious irritant to Gordon Brown. It mentioned the strength of the RCC as a lobby group given there are 5 million Catholics now in the UK.
Then an article appeared last night that talked about the Embryo Bill being blasted from Catholic pulpits over Easter and how annoying this was for a number of scientists who want the bill to pass.
And today it looks like there has been a strategic backdown, where the Catholic Labour MPs against the bill will be allowed a free-vote.
The amusing thing in light of all this is that the Dominion Post has not a peep about any of this, and instead runs with an article from the UK on how Muslims will outnumber church going Catholics by a couple of thousand in the year 2020! Duh, people!
Related Link: Church wins battle over embryo Bill