Under this preposterous Bill anything anyone finds “offensive” in their work environment could be outlawed. But don’t imagine that lawmakers in the secular UK are concerned about some indecent pictures on some factory wall. That offensive practice has been around for a long time and it’s been left to employers to set their own policies. This is something new, and it’s something that concerns the anti-Christian secularists very much: Catholic images. In the age of this new paganism you can have every blasphemous and disgusting image, film, artwork, or subway poster ad thrust before your eyes, it’s all freedom of expression, but there is one thing that these crusading “vampires” cannot tolerate the sight of: the crucifix. Moslems have no religious imagery, nor do Jews, nor do Protestants per se (except a corpseless cross or a Good Shepherd stained glass window). So the bishops are rightly concerned that the “offensive” thing that the law will target — and there will be those hired to test it — is the religious imagery in Catholic institutions. With the kind of elected officials we have in the U.S. legislature don’t imagine that they, too, will refrain for long from passing the same kind of law. The holy images that some “Catholic” institutions have removed voluntarily could soon be ordered removed by law.
The Catholic Herald reports: Mgr Andrew Summersgill, the general secretary of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, said: “The practical consequences of this are that a Catholic care home, for example, may have crucifixes and holy pictures on the walls which reflect and support the beliefs of the residents.
“A cleaner may be an atheist or of very different religious beliefs. Nonetheless, if a cleaner found the crucifixes offensive there would be no defence in law against a charge of harassment,” Mgr Summersgill said in a written joint submission to the committee. Read more here.
