{"id":607,"date":"2009-04-04T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2009\/04\/04\/should-the-cardinal-get-a-peerage\/"},"modified":"2009-04-04T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T13:23:00","slug":"should-the-cardinal-get-a-peerage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2009\/04\/04\/should-the-cardinal-get-a-peerage\/","title":{"rendered":"Should the Cardinal get a peerage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3KcDDpUUfo\/SddgHdPywcI\/AAAAAAAAAVM\/n7Z_yfeC_d0\/s1600-h\/2939_Cormac+sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 160px;height: 206px\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3KcDDpUUfo\/SddgHdPywcI\/AAAAAAAAAVM\/n7Z_yfeC_d0\/s320\/2939_Cormac+sm.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Theos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theosthinktank.co.uk\/Should_the_Cardinal_get_a_peerage.aspx?ArticleID=2939&amp;PageID=47&amp;RefPageID=11\">article<\/a> concludes:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic\">It almost goes without saying that having a legislative chamber that is made up by appointment is problematic, though not without some advantages. In this strange but not ineffective system, Cormac Murphy O\u2019Connor could make a valuable contribution. The aggressive reaction of secularists towards such a development not only exposes the illiberal nature of their position but, worse than that, bears the hallmarks of an old but unattractive British habit: anti-Catholicism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Topical given my <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlaw.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/notes-for-my-debate-with-trigg-today.html\">debate with Prof Trigg yesterday<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theos article concludes: It almost goes without saying that having a legislative chamber that is made up by appointment is problematic, though not without some advantages. In this strange but not ineffective system, Cormac Murphy O\u2019Connor could make a valuable contribution. The aggressive reaction of secularists towards such a development not only exposes the illiberal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}