A brief plea

[adderslj]

Folks,

I know many of you are very upset by the election result, but please bear in mind that "Christian" and "right-wing Christian conservatives" are not synonyms.

Thank you.

Comments

[fraserspeirs.livejournal.com]

Does that mean people with religious views shouldn't participate in the political process at all?

Well, that's how they do it in the European Commission (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3966983.stm).

[adders.livejournal.com]

Too true. I wrote a little about that on Kingdom Come.

[fraserspeirs.livejournal.com]

It's hardly surprising though, given that "deeply undemocratic", as you put it, has been the modus operandi of the European Union for what seems like forever.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

That's not the case.

Rocco Buttiglione was put forward for the position of Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security and, in the opinion of many people his stated views made him unsuitable for that position, no matter where those views came from.

Given that the post would make him the EU Commissioner with responsibility for dealing with issues of discrimination, I don't think that's unreasonable.

There's nothing stopping him, as a person with strongly held religious views, from being involved in politics; after all, he's an Italian government minister. The Italians presumably have no problem with him representing them.

But a sufficient majority of MEPs felt that they could not allow him to represent them.