Just seen that the head of the Catholic church in England has said its right that the tax payers should foot the £12 millon bill for the pope's 4 day visit!!!
Is it right should we foot the bill so the Pope can come see his flock so to speak?
The Catholic church is reputed to be wealthy if he wants to come why cant he foot the bill or part of it?
Vatican City is a state - apparently. Personally I couldn't care less what they call themselves. This is a religious leader of an OBSCENELY rich organisation that is coming to visit. Very nice and welcome too - but only relavent to those in that same organisation.
There is no justification for expecting me (I'm an Athiest so I would say the same for any church leader choosing to visit their flock) to pay for his jaunt. And to pay for his security? No way. If i want to go travelling, I pay my own way - so should he.
If he's coming as a Head of State he shouldn't be doing his other job of the religious stuff.
From what I've been hearing, even his own people aren't that bothered about the visit.
A survey by ComRes found that 77% of people think taxpayers should not be funding the trip, while 79% have "no personal interest" in the tour.
From here
I fall into that 77%
i don't want to contribute to his visit if he's going to piss off gay people and generally make a cunt of himself.
A carefully considered and thought out response..........Arrest the protecting cunt
I apologise for my earlier outburst what I meant to say was....homophobic woman hating racist protecting cunt
For me I do not give a shit whether he comes here or not.
The Catholic church is full of fucking hypocrites, and if they want him to come here then I do not see the need for anyone, other than the Catholic church to pick the tab up.
The British taxpayer should tell whoever is responsible to fuck off, and pay for the visit yourself.
There............that feels so much better.
Fair enough points indeedy.
You can imagine the outcry if a famous Muslim leader was going to visit, and somebody called him a " cunt ".
I am sure that the powers that be ( no pun intended ) on here, would no doubt ban that member for such abusive remarks.
just to clarify my position i think all religion are cunts
Very true Anais and on that basis IF the same views would have been expressed about Muslims the thread would have been removed because of those comments made. Well the " c " word certainly.
So on that basis I think it should be, otherwise it cannot be locked in any future event, if the same views are expressed in such a way as has been shown here, towards the pope.
IF the Pope was black and that word was used against him we would have the racist brigade screaming from the rooftops...why should it be any different because it is the Pope?
