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The whole concept of Take Your Shoes Off is that when carpets were very expensive they were so precious that people took their shoes off before walking on them. Some people still do.

william of bow

 

These people, who wish to impose their own worldview on that of others, are usually not interested in the real views or needs of the supposed minorities they espouse to support. They make assumptions but they do not actually ask the Moslems, the Sikhs, the Jews, the Hindhus, others what they actually like or object to. Patronisation all the way is the name of the game.

william of bow

Sunday, 24. August 2008, 20:29

Fruitcakery from the BBC this very morning. BBC Radio 4 Sunday Programme tried to create a controversy around Cardinal Newman (who was Gay, don't you know).

Peter Tatchell accused the Catholic Church of "abusing the Human Rights" of Cardinal Newman in digging him up and parting him from his friend Father St. John "because it was the Cardinal's last wish to be interred with his friend".

Can a 100 years plus deadman have any "human rights"?!!!!!!!

Fr Tim

 

"On the left is the grave of Edward Caswall who died in 1878: on the right is John Joseph Gordon who died in 1853; Ambrose St John died in 1875. All three of these men worked very closely with Newman and he felt that they had died relatively young in helping to carry forward his own projects. His instruction for his own burial was not a gesture of affection for St John alone but a desire for the mortal remains of the four of them to imitate the cross."

Fr Ray

 

In a world that is unable to understand friendship without sexualising it, Newman could be a great example of it as something pure and holy, and necessary for being a human person and for the mission of the Church. The lives of so many of the great saints are marked by deep friendships with someone of the same or the opposite sex. I suspect that it is only by learning to love one's friends can one understand how to love Christ. Some of Newman's writings are reminiscent of St Augustine writing in his Confessions on the loss of his friend. So many of peoples problems in society today seem to stem from a lack of true friendships, as a Church we need to highlight the concept of pure and chaste friendship as part of holiness.

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College bans 'Christmas' and 'Easter' from calendar for fear of offending ethnic students

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:45 PM on 15th September 2008


Yorkshire Coast College has re-branded Christmas and Easter as 'end of term breaks'

A college has renamed the traditional Christmas and Easter breaks in a bid to avoid offending students from other religions.


The college's new calendar shows that both of the traditional holiday periods have now been re-branded as 'end of term breaks'.


Critics have complained that the decision by Yorkshire Coast College is nothing more than 'political correctness'.


Tory MP Robert Goodwill said: 'I have heard that some people refer to the Christmas period as the Winterval, which is worse. This is absolutely barmy.


'We are a Christian country and, to be honest, religious tolerance in this country is about respecting other people's religious beliefs.'

'We live in a country where there is a mutual respect for religious beliefs.

'School terms are traditionally separated by Christmas and Easter and they should be referred to as such.

'They are petrified that they offend the minority but what they are doing is offending the majority.


'It's political correctness gone mad and I am disappointed that it's from an edict from Ofsted.'


The college, based in Scarborough, North Yorkshire offers a range of courses concentrating on training for 'life skills' such as Engineering, Motor Vehicle Training and IT.

The college insists that the decision is in line with Ofsted guidelines and has been made to 'increase inclusion and diversity'.

It circulates the internal year planner annually to 150 teaching staff and up to 50 other workers to inform them of important dates such as term times and training days.

A spokeswoman for the college said: 'Every school and college, wherever located, is responsible for educating its learners who will live and work in a country which is diverse in terms of cultures, religions or beliefs, ethnicities and social backgrounds.

'All employees at Yorkshire Coast College are encouraged to closely follow guidelines set out by Ofsted for the promotion of equality and diversity.

'We constantly review the ways in which we communicate, to ensure that we do not discriminate, and part of those reviews means that we have stopped referring to the Christmas Break and Easter Break and we now have End of Term Break.'

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College bans 'Christmas' and 'Easter' from calendar for fear of offending ethnic students

By Daily Mail Reporter

A college has renamed the traditional Christmas and Easter breaks in a bid to avoid offending students from other religions.

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Promotion of equality and diversity should not boil down to robbing every group in the country of their identity.

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Disability equality in education - dumb down all lessons lectures to be easily understood by those with IQ below 80, so there will be no elitism.

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Anyway how about my suggestion of State Retirement Pension for all, from birth, to comply with the law banning age discrimination?