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by GeneticJen » Thu Feb 04, 2010 8:25 am
Taxpayers are going to be giving their hard-earned cash in order for the Pope to visit the UK. If you agree with the quote below, please visit the link and join the 11,000+ signatories that think the Catholic Church should pay the way.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to ask the Catholic Church to pay for the proposed visit of the Pope to the UK and relieve the taxpayer of the estimated £20 million cost. We accept the right of the Pope to visit his followers in Britain, but public money would be better spent on hard-pressed schools, hospitals and social services which are facing cuts.
You can sign at
http://www.secularism.org.uk/petition-the-pm.html
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by JimC » Thu Feb 04, 2010 8:44 am
I read the thread title as "make the pope gay..."
He cost Oz a fair bit when he visited a year or so ago...
Good luck with the petition - I suspect it makes more sense for UK citizens to sign it...
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by charlou » Thu Feb 04, 2010 9:54 am
Signed.
Over 11,500 so far.
no fences
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by Hermit » Thu Feb 04, 2010 10:11 am
Signed and submitted, then got this reponse: Sorry, due to high traffic this website is currently unavailable, please try again shortly.
Not too fussed about it. Pro forma petitions always go straight into the recycle bin.
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by Hermit » Thu Feb 04, 2010 10:56 am
Looking at the thread title again, one surefire solution occurred to me, and it is dead easy. Change a single letter. Make the Pope gay!
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
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by Trolldor » Fri Feb 05, 2010 3:27 am
JimC wrote:I read the thread title as "make the pope gay..."
He cost Oz a fair bit when he visited a year or so ago...
Good luck with the petition - I suspect it makes more sense for UK citizens to sign it...
And despite protestations we paid for it anyway
"The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement but few can argue with it."
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by JimC » Fri Feb 05, 2010 7:39 am
born-again-atheist wrote:JimC wrote:I read the thread title as "make the pope gay..."
He cost Oz a fair bit when he visited a year or so ago...
Good luck with the petition - I suspect it makes more sense for UK citizens to sign it...
And despite protestations we paid for it anyway
Yes, that was a big fail for the forces of rationality...
As usual...
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