{"id":4687,"date":"2009-06-19T16:38:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T20:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4687"},"modified":"2009-06-19T16:38:26","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T20:38:26","slug":"no-double-double-toil-and-trouble-in-rc-social-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/no-double-double-toil-and-trouble-in-rc-social-club\/","title":{"rendered":"No double, double toil and trouble in RC social club"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have reached such a point of idiotic political correctness that some words have taken on a deific persona and merely to use them guaranties that all critical thought must be stifled in order to offer the obligatory deference. Diversity <\/em>is an obvious example; diversity <\/em>is a good in its own right, no one would ever bother to question whether uniformity might sometimes be better.<\/p>\n

Discrimination <\/em>is another verbal thought extinguisher: to discriminate can never be right. It\u2019s true that Anglicans are addicted to discerning <\/em>but that never leads to discriminating; discerning<\/em> is, rather, a technique for indefinite procrastination.<\/p>\n

So it comes as no surprise when we see headlines that say Witches claim religious discrimination after church ban.<\/em> But for a religion to be worth following, it must claim to be at the very least more correct in its perception of reality than other religions: to hold to truth necessitates discriminating against falsehood.<\/p>\n

Here<\/a> we have a spot of discrimination:<\/p>\n

A group of witches is claiming religious discrimination after church leaders banned them from using its social club.<\/p>\n

Sandra Davis – High Priestess at the Crystal Cauldron – had reserved Our Lady’s Social Club in Shaw Heath, Stockport for her Pagan group’s Annual Witches’ Ball.<\/p>\n

But when she rang to make payment arrangements she was told the event could not be held there and – despite already having printed tickets – another venue must be found.<\/p>\n

The Diocese of Shrewsbury have since confirmed witches are not ‘compatible with the Catholic ethos’.<\/p>\n

Sandra, 61, said: “I’m appalled.<\/p>\n

“My congregation is shocked that in this day and age there can be such religious discrimination.<\/p>\n

“We’re normal people who follow an earth-based religion and want to enjoy ourselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I admit that I too am shocked that in this day and age there can be such religious discrimination. <\/em>And pleased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have reached such a point of idiotic political correctness that some words have taken on a deific persona and merely to use them guaranties that all critical thought must be stifled in order to offer the obligatory deference. Diversity … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,254],"tags":[2111,2225],"class_list":["post-4687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-political-correctness","tag-diocese-of-niagara","tag-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}