Secular Café: Lord Alton's take on history and religious freedom

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Lord Alton's take on history and religious freedom May 13th 2012, 15:13 Back in the 1970s when I was an activist for the Liberal Party (before it merged with the Social democrats to become the LibDems), I was always embarrassed that this guy was a Liberal MP. He has always been a Catholic first and foremost and he has some strange ideas, as shown by the following: http://www.catholicnews.com/data/sto...ns/1201911.htm Quote: This was the place, said Lord Alton, where Catholics sacrificed their lives to pave the way "for the religious freedoms and liberties which we enjoy today, and which, too often, we take for granted." "We must be clear about that struggle and the interconnectedness of history with the present day, and the interconnectedness of the banning of a person's right to wear a cross with the most vicious forms of discrimination and persecution," he said. "The Tyburn story is a story that has great application in our own times. "Tyburn's is a poignant and disturbing story of immense cruelty and barbarism," Lord Alton continued. "It is a story of a perverted legal system, and it reminds us to what intolerance, the crushing of conscience, and what Thomas More described as the breaking of 'the unity of life' inexorably lead." The RCC was, of course, a prime persecutor of heretics and has never been keen on religious freedom for everyone. Thomas More was a particular persecutor of Protestants.

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