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Filuwaúrdjan
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« on: June 14, 2017, 04:23:56 PM »

Farron saying being LibDem leader was impossible considering his christian faith.

The fact that statements like this are being tossed around casually and without apparent attention to the implications is deeply disconcerting.

It's also completely absurd as a statement. The last two Labour Prime Ministers (and Labour is another party absolutely committed to gay rights) were sincerely religious people and it never caused even the slightest of issues. Of course what this is is the usual nauseating tendency of some in the Happy Clappy brigade to entirely appropriate for themselves the term 'Christian'. It's fycking offensive.
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Filuwaúrdjan
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« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2017, 04:30:57 PM »

But not surprising I'm afraid. Anticlericalism seems much stronger there than the rest of the Anglosphere.

...no?
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Filuwaúrdjan
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« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2017, 04:54:21 PM »

The LibDems have one safe seat: Orkney & Shetland. Everywhere else is a constant negotiation with the electorate...
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