June 03, 2007... It’s time to choose.

If catholic politicians of the United Kingdom and other EU member-states were to base their legislative responsibilities upon the doctrines of the Roman Catholic church as Scotland’s Cardinal Keith O’Brien or Wale’s Archbishop Peter Smith are demanding-- by way of their right to free expression--it must be demanded that catholic politicians choose between church or state. This is because the state is charged with enforcing the law by way of the police, the judiciary and the armed forces, if necessary. For church doctrine masquerading as a legitimate parallel law, to be able to demand the same enforcement as state law, would be tantamount to abandoning western culture and to become similar to Islamic states with their Sharia law and the subsequent culture of poverty and despair.

There is no such thing as church law as a legitimate parallel to state law in western culture. State law must always be based on rational principles if the law is to stand any chance of being just. Church law has no such constraint in the fundamentals of its doctrines and is always unjust because it is based on untestable and unchallengeable faith.

This is why catholic politicians must choose, and not become the church-morality coerced conduit for the catholic church to avail itself of the police, the judiciary and the gun, to enforce the Vatican’s interpretation of God’s will.

All across the third-world, where contemporary Catholicism has taken hold at the state-legislature level, we can readily observe populations decimated by AIDS, and women dying because of being forcibly denied the proper and safe abortions, which are their right to properly and safely have.