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Those Darned Religious Extremists!

Filed under: Abortion, Britain, Catholics, Religious Right — Michael van der Galien, Editor-in-Chief on June 1, 2007 @ 2:34 pm CEST

AMERICAblog has the following headline up: “Religious extremism increasing in UK.” Now, before one gets the wrong impression, we are not talking about Muslim extremists here.

Well, actually, we are not really talking about extremism at all:

Anti-abortion campaigners are ready to launch a US-style cultural war against the 40-year-old law that allows women in the UK to choose to terminate unwanted pregnancies - with politicians who are also practising Roman Catholics as their first targets.

MPs and other elected representatives who attend Mass but have not taken a hard line against abortion will be targeted by activists who say they should be disowned by the Church.

The head of the 17,000-strong Life League said yesterday that the organisation will write to every Catholic MP demanding a clear statement that they support the Church’s line on abortion and all other “life” issues.

Those who fail to give a satisfactory answer face the prospect of being spied on to see if they are attending Mass.

When Christians are involved, the label ‘extremism’ is used quite easily isn’t it? I wonder how progressives would respond if conservatives would throw the word extremist around so easily when referring to, o, say, Muslims?

I disagree with what these Catholics in England are doing, but to call it extremism is a bit… what’s that word… extreme.

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