{"id":4943,"date":"2009-07-16T23:58:45","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T03:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4943"},"modified":"2009-07-16T23:58:45","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T03:58:45","slug":"policemen-for-beelzebub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/policemen-for-beelzebub\/","title":{"rendered":"Policemen for Beelzebub"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr. Plod the pagan<\/a>:\"Add<\/p>\n

We’ve got a Black Police Association, a Gay Police Association, a Muslim Police Association and now\u00a0 –\u00a0 stop tittering at the back\u00a0 –\u00a0 a Pagan Police Association.<\/p>\n

The Home Office has agreed to the establishment of a support group for officers who practise Paganism and witchcraft. Druids and Wicca worshippers will also be welcome to join.<\/p>\n

A spokesman said: ‘The Government wants a police service that reflects the diverse communities it serves. It is down to individual forces to make reasonable adjustments to accommodate the religion or beliefs of individual officers.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I notice that no mention is made of a Christian Police Association; perhaps it does exist but is in hiding. After all, Christians in Britain get arrested for the hate crime of passing out gospel tracts<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A police community support officer ordered two Christian preachers to stop handing out gospel leaflets in a predominantly Muslim area of Birmingham.<\/p>\n

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The evangelists say they were threatened with arrest for committing a “hate crime” and were told they risked being beaten up if they returned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mr. Plod the pagan: We’ve got a Black Police Association, a Gay Police Association, a Muslim Police Association and now\u00a0 –\u00a0 stop tittering at the back\u00a0 –\u00a0 a Pagan Police Association. The Home Office has agreed to the establishment of … 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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,307],"tags":[2080,2267],"class_list":["post-4943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-the-fall-of-the-west","tag-christianity","tag-the-fall-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943","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=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}