Godless and flammable?
Aug. 31st, 2006 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrphDon't get me wrong, I'm not saying that Glasgow's Catholics want to set fire to LGBT folk. That's a little bit 15th century, after all.
On the other hand, handing out safety information that might stop those people catching fire from other causes... that seems to be a little more controversial, doesn't it?
The BBC states that some firefighters viewed it as something that would "contradict their moral beliefs", presumably because it meant visiting Pride to hand out the leaflets. Archbishop Mario Conti seems to agree with them, saying that "The duty to obey one's conscience is a higher duty than that of obeying orders".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/5301334.stm
Hmm. Does anyone local have a little more information on this tale?
On the other hand, handing out safety information that might stop those people catching fire from other causes... that seems to be a little more controversial, doesn't it?
The BBC states that some firefighters viewed it as something that would "contradict their moral beliefs", presumably because it meant visiting Pride to hand out the leaflets. Archbishop Mario Conti seems to agree with them, saying that "The duty to obey one's conscience is a higher duty than that of obeying orders".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/5301334.stm
Hmm. Does anyone local have a little more information on this tale?
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2006-09-01 09:20 am (UTC)"Gay people are Godless animals. Animals can't use fire [or read]. Ergo, we should save the environment by not giving flyers out to them."
It just goes to show that we haven't really evolved all that much from our mud-dwelling ameoba ancestry after all.