- East Belfast Catholic enclave an island under siege again
As a district, Short Strand is literally stranded, a small island of green in a surrounding Orange ocean, the only sizeable Catholic enclave in predominantly Protestant east Belfast.The west and north of the city have large Catholic... 地区、ショートストランドが文字通り取り残され、周囲のオレンジの海に緑の小さな島として、市内の主にプロテスタント東Belfast.The西部と北部で唯一のかなりのカトリック飛び地にはカトリック大持っている...
- Two shot in Northern Ireland riots
A paramilitary Protestant group is thought to be responsible for a night of sectarian rioting in Belfast, which saw two people shot and homes attacked with petrol bombs, Northern Irish police said. About 500 people were involved... 準軍事的なプロテスタントのグループが二人のショットとガソリン爆弾で攻撃された家を見たベル、で宗派間暴動の夜の責任であると考えられている、北アイルランドの警察は言った
- Drink-drive bishop quits
Germany's top Protestant cleric resigned yesterday after she was caught driving with a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit, an incident that she said had undermined her authority. Margot Kaessmann, who was elected... 後、彼女の血で運転し摘発されたアルコールのレベルを3倍に法的制限が、彼女の権限が損なわれたという事件ドイツのトッププロテスタントの聖職者昨日辞任した
- Clashes greet Irish holiday
Northern Ireland's divisive annual July 12 holiday got off to a violent start last night with riots in several parts of Belfast. Every July 12, tens of thousands of members of the Orange Order, a Protestant brotherhood dedicated... 北アイルランドの対立を毎年7月12日の休日は、ベルファストのいくつかの部分で暴動で最後の夜暴力的なスタートを切りました
- Northern Ireland parties in crunch talks
Northern Ireland's main Protestant and Catholic parties held constructive talks on the thorny issue threatening the province's fragile power-sharing set-up. 北アイルランドの主要なプロテスタントとカトリックのパーティーセットを共有するまで頭の痛い問題は、道内の脆弱な電源を脅かすの建設的な会談を行った
- Protestant firebrand exits politics
Protestant firebrand Ian Paisley - the Northern Ireland naysayer turned peacebroker - made a final appearance yesterday in Parliament, capping a 40-year career by lauding a peace process that he long opposed. The 83-year-old evangelist... プロテスタントの扇動ペイズリー - 北アイルランド否定論者peacebrokerになって - 昨日の国会での最終的な外観をした、40、彼は長い間、反対し、和平プロセス賞賛によって年間のキャリアの上限
- Paul Thomas: It'll be worse when the Tea Party starts
So it's come to this. America, the land of laissez-faire capitalism, the bastion of thrift and self-reliance, the spiritual home of the Protestant work ethic, being lectured on fiscal responsibility by the Chinese Communist Party... ので、これに来ている
- Drink-driving woman bishop to quit
The colourful head of Germany's 25 million Protestants will quit later on Wednesday after she was caught drink-driving, Church sources told AFP. ドイツの2500万人、プロテスタントのカラフルな頭の保存日後、彼女は飲酒運転摘発された、教会のソースAFP通信に対し、終了します
- Religion: respecting the minority | Editorial
This Christmas, for perhaps the first time ever, Britain is a majority non-religious nationEvery year, researchers from the British Social Attitudes survey ask a representative sample of British people whether they regard themselves as belonging to any particular religion and, if so, to which one? When the survey first asked these questions in 1985, 63% of the respondents answered that they were Christians, compared with 34% who said they had no religion (the rest belonged to non-Christian religions).Today, a quarter of a century on, there has been a steady and remarkable turnaround. In the latest 2010 BSA report, published earlier this month, only 42% said they were Christians while 51% now say they have no religion. Admittedly, some other surveys – including the last census – have produced different findings on these issues, usually to the advantage of the religious option. There is also a margin of error in all such exercises. All the same, and particularly since the trends in opinion over time seem well set, it is hard not to feel that this latest finding marks a cultural watershed.This Christmas, for perhaps the first time ever, Britain is a majority non-religious nation. Most of us have probably seen this moment coming, but it is a substantial event nonetheless. It is undoubtedly a development that would have astonished our ancestors who built a Britain on the basis that we were and would remain a predominantly Protestant people. The victory of secularism would have flabbergasted them almost as much as the pope appearing on the BBC with his Thought for the Day.The change ought certainly to inspire some national reflection, though there is no need for national breast-beating. After all, in most eyes, the BSA survey finding simply underscores things that have alrea 今年のクリスマスは、これまで、おそらく初めて、英国は、彼らが特定の宗教に属するものとして自分自身を考えているかどうかもしそうなら、イギリス社会の意識調査の研究者に、そして英国人の代表的なサンプルを求めるが、非宗教的nationEvery年過半数どれ？調査は、まず1985年にこれらの質問をすると、回答者の63％は、彼らが（残りは非キリスト教の宗教に属していた）は宗教と言いました34パーセントと比較して、キリスト教徒があると回答した
- Photographer Shot in Northern Ireland Riots
Two nights of clashes between Protestants, Catholics have left three people injured プロテスタント、カトリック教徒間の衝突の二晩は、3人。。u200b。。u200bが負傷残している
- Guardian Daily podcast: Health secretary unveils ‘radical’ white paper; plus Polanski escapes extradition to the US
The Conservative health secretary, Andrew Lansley, has unveiled what he describes as the most radical reforms of the national health service since its inception in 1948. Social affairs editor Randeep Ramesh says under the plans, GPs would handle their own budgets and hospitals would be allowed to go bust.Berlin correspondent Kate Connolly reports on today's surprise decision by the justice ministry in Switzerland to block the extradition of the Polish film director Roman Polanski to the United States, where he faces sentencing for unlawful sex with a 13-year-old 33 years ago.As the Protestant marching season reaches its climax, Ireland correspondent Henry McDonald says tensions are high in Belfast after sectarian violence flared last night in two separate incidents.And we hear from some enthusiastic South African football fans celebrating at a public screening of yesterday's World Cup Final between Spain and Holland.Jon DennisAndy Duckworth
保守党の健康秘書官は、アンドリューランズリー、彼が説明発表した1948年の創業以来、国民健康サービスの最も急進的な改革
- Letters: Pope should quit over abuse cover-up
Despite everything – and everything is a lot – Madeleine Bunting (Comment, 6 September) is right that Pope Benedict deserves a hearing. If the supreme pontiff wanted to restore the moral credibility of his church, he could do even better than that. He could, as Jesus did, take the sins of his brethren on himself. He could quit, whether personally responsible for the global cover-up that has put Roman Catholicism into an unprecedented crisis or not. That there is no precedent for a papal resignation would make it totally remarkable, even saintly. In secular terms, the holy father would, however, be doing no more than any CEO of an international corporation in a comparably disgraceful situation. He would be forced by his chairman to go. God has abdicated that kind of authority and left even a pope with free will.There is, as it happens, a recent Protestant precedent. When the Lutheran bishop of Hamburg learned of a serious case of child abuse within her jurisdiction, though not directly responsible, she promptly resigned. Anything less, she said, would not suffice. Perhaps a woman's moral sensibility is stronger. Were that, per impossibile, to happen at the Vatican, a successor would be set free to embark on the new reformation that would need to centre on vital issues of gender and sexuality.Canon Paul OestreicherBrighton, East SussexPope Benedict XVICatholicismChristianityguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
すべてにもかかわらず - 、すべては多くの - マドレーヌバンティング（コメント、6〜9月）右にローマ法王ベネディクトは、聴覚に値する
- Let the path to a better Brazil not be lost | Douglas Ferreira Barros
In the final round of presidential elections, I hope Brazilians remember the social improvements made under LulaThe second round of the presidential election in Brazil, a battle between José Serra and Dilma Rousseff, the candidate of President Lula's party, will come to an end on 31 October, after a three-month campaign.Serra, the opposition candidate, has focused his campaign on accusations against Rousseff. He has been joined by Catholic and Protestant leaders, who have openly criticised her for supporting the legalisation of abortion. Extreme rightwing groups, which most people thought were extinct, have joined the attacks on blogs and websites, speculating about Rousseff's supposedly hidden past. Serra has occupied the rightwing, conservative ground, exploiting religious beliefs and a moralist rhetoric that appeals to much of the middle class.But what is at stake in this election? As far as Brazil's international strategic position is concerned, Rousseff will promote economic and political relations with southern, Latin American and Bric countries. For Serra, such proximity brings more problems than benefits to Brazil. He prefers bilateral agreements with northern countries. In addition, Serra rejects the idea that Lula's foreign policy, based on relations with the global south, drastically altered foreign perceptions about Brazil's importance. But Brazil's growing status is confirmed by the double success of being awarded the Olympics and the World Cup.On the domestic side, Rousseff promises to strengthen strategic state companies in which the government is the major stockholder, such as Petrobras, and to reverse the privatisation policies carried out during Cardoso's government (1995-2002). Serra's most important energy adviser, on the other hand, has recently re 大統領選挙の最終ラウンドでは、私が31日に終わりが来るように、ブラジルは、ブラジル、ホセセラとDilma Rousseff、ルーラ大統領の党の候補者間の戦いの大統領選挙のLulaThe第2ラウンドでの社会的改善を覚えてほしい10月3ヶ月campaign.Serraは、野党候補、Rousseff告訴に彼のキャンペーンを展開してきた後
- Are you smarter than an American on religion? | Richard Adams
The average American only got half of the questions right in this quiz on religious knowledge. Can you do better?The Pew Research Centre recently surveyed Americans on their religious knowledge – and for a country where religion is so prominent, the results were surprising. Self-described atheists and agnostics out-performed every other group, barring Jews. According to Pew:Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions.On average, Americans correctly answer 16 of the 32 religious knowledge questions on the survey by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life. Atheists and agnostics average 20.9 correct answers. Jews and Mormons do about as well, averaging 20.5 and 20.3 correct answers, respectively. Protestants as a whole average 16 correct answers; Catholics as a whole, 14.7. Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons perform better than other groups on the survey even after controlling for differing levels of education.Part of the quiz is online and you can take it for yourself right here and see how you compare with Americans who took the quiz by gender, religious belief and education. A word of warning, at least three of the questions have an obvious US angle, making them tricky for non-Americans to answer. But what the hell.ReligionUS constitution and civil libertiesUnited StatesAtheismChristianityJudaismRichard Adamsguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
平均的なアメリカ人は宗教的な知識でこのクイズ右の質問の半分を得た
- Religion can make life inside bearable | Francis Davis
As a support system – and even, yes, as a way to make life more comfortable – religion is an essential part of prison lifeThe question: Do prisons need religion?Look a deliberate murderer in the eye and you'll never forget it. A few years back I visited Jersey prison with the then Catholic chaplain. He was a touch edgy. Two brothers, twins, were there having been accused of murdering their millionaire father. According to their lawyers butter wouldn't melt in their mouths and yet within days of incarceration they were allegedly running the whole nick. Their public school charm masked, the staff observed, a steely determination to wield power. I shook the hand of the one that it turned out had committed the deed. No wonder then that as he walked the corridors the chaplain was cheering some with a chat, encouraging others with a word, and even – with a few packs of fags – buying protection for one sensitive lad from a small but tough group that the twins hadn't managed to cow. That lad told me the chaplain and a bit of prayer was keeping him alive.So how could I be surprised to hear, from the thoughtful inspector of prisons, Ann Owers, that inmates in today's institutions were turning to Islam as a source of consolation? Some of them were also, she suggested, converting to join a group which could protect them. A natural enough urge. Prisons function as social systems with hierarchies, informal rules of justice, non-cash currencies and the opportunity to learn from the very wildest of our criminals. You would have to be pretty unique to be totally ready for the experience. God might fill the gap. And so what if the motivation isn't always entirely spiritual? In times gone by the playwright Brendan Behan had observed that Catholicism was more popular than Protestantism in 支援システムとして - 、さらには、はい、方法は人生をより快適にするために - 宗教が刑務所lifeThe質問の不可欠な部分です：刑務所を行います宗教が必要ですか目の意図的な殺人を見て、あなたはそれを決して忘れません
- So why do we need another religion website? | Jeremy Lott
Because we can present the big picture well. And because religion is vital – serious and silly, scandalous and sublimeThis week, after some effort, the Real Clear family of websites births two new offspring: Real Clear Religion (RCR) and Real Clear Science. I am the editor of the first and associate editor of the latter. The Guardian was kind enough to ask me to write a few words on the pressing subject of: why another religion website?There are two ways of answering that question. The first, and easiest, answer is technical. Real Clear websites offer what we call intelligent aggregation. We are both high- and low-tech. Some parts of our websites are automated, but the main product that we offer readers is our judgment. We read many, probably far too many, emails and scour countless websites to give a growing audience what we believe to be the best information and analysis on a timely, manageable schedule.It's a tall order but I'd like to think we pull it off. Our flagship website, Real Clear Politics, is the daily cheat sheet for American politicos and political junkies of every party, as well as interested observers around the world. It does a reasonable job of corralling the whole of American debate into one place. No site really does that for religion, so it seemed like a good area to expand Real Clear.The other answer is a bit more philosophical, and uncomfortable. Narrow the question to: why religion?, and one is forced to drop any pretence and admit to being an interested party. That's me. I'm the son of a Baptist minister and a Catholic convert. While RealClearReligion.org is not a Catholic website or a Protestant website, or a Scientologist website for that matter, it does have a point of view.In my inaugural post on the website's blog, Casting Lots, I took a s 我々がよく全体像を提示することができるからです
- Bivio – Europe's greatest linguistic curiosity
Residents of the Swiss village speak three languages and several dialects of eachTomorrow – World Languages Day – we celebrate those brave souls who have held out for another year against the great language blender that is Globish.Among them, special mention must go to the inhabitants of Bivio, a village in the Swiss canton of Graubünden which, according to Swiss observer and former Berlitz teacher José Ribeaud, deserves the title of Europe's greatest linguistic curiosity.Bivio's population barely scrapes 200, not counting the handful of foreigners who live there. Yet the inhabitants speak three languages and several dialects of each. A quarter speak the official language, Italian, one fifth speak Romansch, while the majority speak some variety of German. Amazingly, they all seem to understand one another. At the grocer's, everyone speaks their mother tongue, and everyone gets the right change.They're well-trained. At the kindergarten, they speak Italian on Tuesday and Surmiran, a Romansch dialect, on Thursday. The rest of the week, the kids alternate between the two, but in the playground, the German dialect 。ündnerdeutsch rules. On Sundays, they may attend the Catholic church, where the priest preaches in Schwyzerdütsch, or the Protestant one, where High German is the order of the day.Bivio means bifurcation or parting of the ways. It was here that Roman legions rested their horses between two great alpine passes, the Julier and the Septimer. At an altitude of 1,932m, Bivio has always been a meeting place, and it has always been isolated. That could explain why it's a relic of a multilingualism that linguists consider was the norm for most of human history. But its days of relichood may be numbered. The proportion of Swiss German speakers in the village is cre 世界の言語日 - - スイスの村の住民は、3つの言語とeachTomorrowのいくつかの方言を話す我々は彼らをGlobish.Amongです偉大な言語ブレンダーに対して別の年から開催しているこれらの勇敢な魂を祝う、特別な言及は、住民のに行かなければならないBivioのは、スイスの観察、元ベルリッツ教師ホセRibeaudによると、ヨーロッパ最大の言語curiosity.Bivioの人口のタイトルに値するグラウビュンデン州、スイスの州の村はほとんどそこに住む外国人は一握りのカウントは、200取ってきて
- Republican bombers hit spy HQ
Republican dissidents detonated a bomb yesterday outside the British spy headquarters in Northern Ireland, just hours before Catholic and Protestant leaders were to elect a new Justice Minister.The Police Service of Northern Ireland... 共和党反体制派は昨日、北アイルランドの英国のスパイの本部の外に、カトリックとプロテスタントの指導者の前にわずか数時間は、新しい法務Minister.The警察サービスを北アイルランドの選出された爆弾を爆破させる...
- Northern Ireland: A violence from the past
The riots and attacks may slow – but do not stop – the shared future being built in Northern IrelandThe violence of the last few days in Northern Ireland has been in marked contrast to the earlier part of this year's marching season. The Drumcree march and many other marches passed off peacefully, or largely peacefully. Now, however, we have again seen people out on the streets rioting, we have seen police officers and members of the public injured, and we have seen shotguns, blast bombs, petrol bombs, bricks and other missiles thrown across communities and at the police. We have seen again the use of baton rounds and water cannon.The scenes of destruction evoke the memories of years gone by. There were reports not only of hooded, masked men engaging in violence but also of small children on top of the shops at Ardoyne, a traditional location for hurling down missiles on anyone below. This violence, though, is on a smaller scale, looks very clearly orchestrated and bears the marks of dissident republicanism.Great work has been done again this year. There have been 2,423 marches in Northern Ireland so far: 603 of them took place yesterday. There are a further 856 marches to come: 841 will have taken place by 31 August. Marching is certainly still a strong part of the culture. Some 65% of our marches are unionist and loyalist and 3% are republican and nationalist. The remaining 32% are motor cavalcades, girl guides on parade, and so on.While the Orange Order talks of Orangefest and there are portrayals of the marching season – and particularly the Twelfth – as a community festival, that is not the experience of the whole community. The Orange Order celebrates the victory of Protestant William of Orange over Catholic King James at the battle of the Boyne, and does not perm 暴動や攻撃が遅くなるかもしれません - が停止しない - 共有の未来を北アイルランドの最後の数日間の北IrelandTheの暴力で構築されて今年の行進シーズンの前半に対照してきました
- Merkel's future hangs on vote for president
BRUSSELS: The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, is facing a critical presidential contest this week that could end her political career after a Protestant pastor, nominated by the opposition, became favourite to win a vote in the Bundestag widely seen as a challenge to her leadership. ブリュッセル：ドイツの首相は、メルケル首相は、今週、プロテスタントの牧師の後彼女の政治的キャリアを終わらせることが、野党が指名の重要な大統領選挙戦に直面して、連邦議会での投票を広く彼女のリーダーシップへの挑戦と見られて勝つためにお気に入りになった
- Shrinivas Havanur
My friend Shrinivas Havanur, who has died aged 82, was an authority on the Kannada language, his much-loved mother tongue which is spoken nowadays by some 35 million people in the state of Karnataka, southern India.He was born into a Brahmin family in the village of Havanur. He went on to become librarian of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai before leaving this prestigious post to become professor of Kannada, first at Mumbai University, then at Mangalore University. His research brought him into contact with the Basel Mission, a Protestant society with roots in Switzerland and south-western Germany, whose staff, in the 19th century, had researched the Kannada language and its literature. They had played an important part in transforming it into a language for modern discourse and media.I was archivist of the Basel Mission when Havanur came to me wanting, for his first short stay in Basel, the same kind of 24/7 access he had provided for scholars when he was a research librarian. We came to an understanding that allowed him to work night and day, as he wanted.Since that first visit, we had been firm friends and colleagues. I had no background in Indian studies, and he opened up a whole new world for me, not least in my understanding of the significance of this group of missionaries in the history of Karnataka.Havanur became almost an ambassador-at-large for the Basel Mission in Karnataka, with his pointed, critical but positive judgments about the missionaries' linguistic work in academic publications and the press.In retirement he became an honorary resident member of Karnataka Theological College. Assisted by the college archivist, he produced the definitive computer catalogue of the many Basel Mission publications in his language. He also helped to 私の友人シュリーニバースHavanurは、82歳で死亡した、カンナダ語の権威が、今日カルナタカ州の約35万人で話されている彼の大好きな母の舌は、南部India.Heはバラモンの家庭に生まれるHavanurの村です
- Michael Tomasky: Friday quiz: At the hop
Coming at you from a slightly different angle this week. Today, our subject is the 1950s. Slight emphasis on America, but I've tried to be fairly global. So let's get going shall we?1. What were the average annual salaries in the US and the UK in 1950?a. $2,992 and £101b. $4,386 and £231c. $5,720 and £3062. The Korean War started after:a. South Korea sank a North Korean patrol boat that was in the South's spaceb. North Korea invaded South Korea on landc. South Korea blocked thousands of refugees from the North at the border3. What 1952 non-fiction US book by a Protestant preacher, a true symbol of its times, stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 186 weeks?a. How to Win Friends and Influence Peopleb. The Power of Positive Thinkingc. The Organization Man4. What happened in 1953 regarding the Piltdown Man, the major paleontological find in East Sussex from about 40 years prior?a. Archeologists found the companion Piltdown Womanb. Britain and France got into a major feud over who laid proper claim to itc. It was revealed to be a hoax5. What was the first sub-Saharan African nation to gain independence> It came in 1957, from the UK (the country was known as the Gold Coast until independence).a. Ghanab. Cameroonc. Tanzania6. What was the ES-335?a. The first Sputnik rocketb. The model of Gibson guitar played by Chuck Berryc. The first version of the concept car that eventually became the Ford Edsel7. Match author to book:Hannah ArendtC. Wright MillsJohn Kenneth GalbraithThe Power EliteThe Affluent SocietyThe Origins of Totalitarianism8. What courageous world leader was tried in secret and executed, his grave site discovered overrun with weeds some 30 years later?a. Imre Nagyb. Chiang Kai-Shekc. Jacobo Arbenz9. Which of these technological marvels did not occur in あなたに、今週少し違う角度から来る
- Michael Tomasky: Hillary, Obama and the Arizona law
Funny, these circumstances surrounding the administration's evident intention to file a lawsuit against Arizona over the state's new immigration law. First, Hillary Clinton made the announcement, not attorney general Eric Holder, whose department would actually be handling the matter. Second, she made it to a local television news station in Quito, Ecuador, according to this Wall Street Journal item. Third, she said it June 8, but it didn't come out until late yesterday. Strange. I don't know that there's any big conspiracy behind it. It seems reasonable that Clinton, who surely is peppered with questions about this everywhere she goes south of the border, said it down there rather than here.But why Hillary and not Holder? There's no doubt that the issue affects our relations with Latin American countries, which have pretty uniformly denounced it. And sure, it's fair to speculate that politics is a factor here. Clinton is obviously extremely well-known among Latino voters, and Holder is not. And she is popular among them. And Obama has been losing support among Latinos in the last couple of months.Before conservatives start braying, I would point out that it's scarcely unusual for administrations to make moves to placate the people who voted for them, even in the face of public opinion. George Bush did exactly this in 2001 with regard to his stem-cell research decision.Large majorities in 2001 backed government funding for stem-cell research, majorities equal to or maybe even larger than majorities that now support the Arizona law. But Christian conservatives did not. Interestingly they weren't nearly as opposed to that as Latinos are to the Arizona law: the link at the beginning of this graf will take you to a survey showing that evangelical white protestants were spli おかしい、このような状況政権の意図が明らかにアリゾナに対する状態の新しい移民法をめぐる訴訟を提出する周囲
- Face to faith | Ian Bradley
Liberals across all faiths should create a coalition to turn the fundamentalist tideThe compromises of coalition government are presenting many of us who are political liberals with the unsettling prospect of seeing cherished principles watered down in favour of policies driven by conservative ideology. For theological liberals this is an all too familiar state of affairs. For much of the last hundred years theological conservatism and its close ally, fundamentalism, have been in the ascendant across the world's major faiths, and liberalism in steady retreat.The consequences of this are all too clear to see: rising levels of bigotry within and across faiths, judgmental attitudes leaving no room for generous, fuzzy broad-mindedness, and an obsessive interest in sexual behaviour expressed especially in rampant homophobia.Increasingly, the divisions within Christianity are not denominational but rather between liberals and conservatives. Powerful new alliances are being forged between Roman Catholics, evangelical Protestants and Pentecostalists against abortion, homosexuality and liberalising social and cultural tendencies. It is not inconceivable that fundamentalist Muslims and Jews will soon also be entering these coalitions.What can those of a liberal theological inclination do in the face of this fundamentalist tide? We, too, need to band together across both denominational and faith boundaries. There are strong liberal traditions within all three of the great monotheistic faiths. In Judaism it is the rabbinic approach of imaginative interpretation of the Torah, so different from the literalism of the scribes and the Pharisees with whom Jesus clashed. In Christianity it is that grace-filled universalist impulse that stretches back from the Broad Church movement of the 自由党はすべての宗教者大事原則を政策保守的なイデオロギーによって駆動に有利な水で見ることの不安の見通しとの政治的リベラルている私たちの多くを提示さ連立政権の原理tideTheの妥協を有効にするために作成してください
- Bishops act the bully in parliament | Diarmaid MacCulloch
In denying the right of smaller groups to decide whom they marry, some C of E bishops look rather like hypocritesIt is more than 170 years since the Church of England was last able to dictate as to who presided at weddings in this country. In 1836, to much Tory and Anglican grumbling, Protestant Nonconformists were given the chance to celebrate the happiest day of their lives in their own chapels, rather than be forced to resort to an Anglican service in an Anglican church, and civil marriage was recognised in English law.At the present day, certain of the bishops of the C of E don't seem to have noticed that it is not 1835. On 25 January 2010, a group of bishops in the House of Lords led by the bishops of Winchester and Chichester scuppered an amendment to the equality bill which would have allowed three specific faith communities, Liberal Judaism, Quakers and Unitarians, to register civil partnerships on their own premises. These three religious groups, after much discussion (and of course, prayer), had each independently decided that they wanted to take this step, as part of their commitment to their religious life and as an expression of their communal belief – but my Lords the bishops took it upon themselves to decide for Jews, Quakers and Unitarians what they should believe and practise. Never mind what these non-Anglicans think, they proclaimed, the amendment was the thin end of the wedge, and soon Anglicans would be forced to do the same sort of thing willy-nilly.Quite apart from the fact that this group of bishops did not actually represent anyone in the Church of England other than themselves, their action was bizarrely inconsistent with what the same bishops had just secured for their own church. They had led the defeat of a government proposal to limit the s 小さいグループの右側には、誰と結婚する決定を否定では、いくつかのCメールの司教というようなhypocritesIt見て、170以上の年ですので、イングランドの教会には、この国では、結婚式での司会などを決定することが更新されました
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