Church of England may ban clergy from joining BNP
The Church of England is to consider banning clergy from joining the British National party amid fears the far-right party is promoting its image as Christian.
Next month’s General Synod, the church’s national assembly, will debate a motion calling on Anglican bishops to formulate a similar policy to that of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) on the BNP.
The Acpo policy states that no member of the police service may be a member of an organisation whose constitution, aims, objectives or pronouncements contradict the “general duty” to promote race equality. This specifically includes the BNP, the policy states.
General Synod member Vasantha Gnanadoss, who works for the Metropolitan police service, will call for a similar ban to apply to all clergy, ordinands and employed lay persons who speak on behalf of the Church of England.
In a background paper to her private members motion, Gnanadoss said such action would make it “much more difficult” for the BNP or other similar organisations to exploit the claim that there are Anglican clergy or church representatives who support them.
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Church of England may ban clergy from joining BNP
guardian.co.uk
Who cares what the pedaphiles in the Church of England think
This is rich. The Arch Druid of Conturbury can’t bring himself to denounce the Unitarian/gnosticism of the US Episcopal church, but he can countenance a national party that wants British national interests much the same as Henry VIII wanted when the See of Canturbury was wrested from the Internationalists in Rome. Curiouser and curiouser, that fact is oft stranger than fiction.
Cheers,
An American Anglican
This article is just one more in a very, very long list of articles that points to how aggressive
Multicultural Marxism is in silencing any and all opposition. That it’s obviously both immature and even silly doesn’t make it any less dangerous. It confuses self-righteousness with holiness, and blind obedience to a set of rigid beliefs as intellectual insight. Lacking any humility or sense of self-criticism there is nothing to stop its beliefs from being immediately converted into a set of absolute truths. Hence the blind obedience. LIke I said, it’s dangerous, and we need to do something. For this reason I am glad that NPI is around, and I say this as an apolitical independent with no religious affiliation.
We need you. And now it’s clear that you need us. In short, we need each other.
They can ban all they want. But that doesn’t take away the fact that many members of the BNP are Christian. And because you ban them does not mean they won’t continue to celebrate their rich and historical christian herritage.
This is similar to what has been going on in Germany for decades.
Germany has a nationalist party called the NPD or National Democratic Party of Germany. It is, of course, routinely demonized as “neo-Nazi.” Attempts to ban it have been made countless times (under German law, this would be easy if it were really neo-Nazi).
The NPD is kept in check by the powers-that-be by forbidding its members to exercise many occupations such as teacher, government service (Beamter) and so on. Purportedly this is because NPD members can’t be trusted to truly uphold democratic ideals. But the real reasons, which aren’t even kept a secret, are (1) to lower the opportunities and socioeconomic status of NPD members, thus deterring all but the most fanatical from joining it, and (2) to prevent the NPD from becoming “respectable” (Salonfaehig), thus keeping its views out of most popular discourse.
The same thing is going on in Britain with the BNP. Rather than banning it outright, the strategy seems to be to marginalize it and its members, thus perpetuating the myth that the “majority” or “mainstream” is multicultural, and national pride is the bizarre belief system of a tiny minority–when in fact, the reality is the other way around.