Sam
September 6, 2003, 05:46 PM
I'm not from the UK, I don't know the whole story about the Church of England, but this passage caught my eye:
Do Human Rights Stop at the Church Door?
July 20, 1998
By Mathew </~meta/>
"And shamefully, they got it: weasel words were inserted saying that churches, religious schools and charitable organizations could continue to refuse to employ people whose religious beliefs or 'manner of life' (sic) were not to their liking. The hypocrisy is staggering, but unfortunately not surprising."
Ok, now, think about this. You are a church with your specific, set in stone beliefs, and your job is to spread those beliefs to the general public. Would you want to hire someone completely opposite to those beliefs? You want to force Christian churches to hire Muslem clerics as their preachers? Or vice-versa? This makes absolutely no sense. You would force a Jewish synagogue to hire a Baptist preacher to tell their congregation that the Messiah came 2000 years ago, and their beliefs are wrong?
Do Human Rights Stop at the Church Door?
July 20, 1998
By Mathew </~meta/>
"And shamefully, they got it: weasel words were inserted saying that churches, religious schools and charitable organizations could continue to refuse to employ people whose religious beliefs or 'manner of life' (sic) were not to their liking. The hypocrisy is staggering, but unfortunately not surprising."
Ok, now, think about this. You are a church with your specific, set in stone beliefs, and your job is to spread those beliefs to the general public. Would you want to hire someone completely opposite to those beliefs? You want to force Christian churches to hire Muslem clerics as their preachers? Or vice-versa? This makes absolutely no sense. You would force a Jewish synagogue to hire a Baptist preacher to tell their congregation that the Messiah came 2000 years ago, and their beliefs are wrong?