{"id":710,"date":"2008-12-07T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2008\/12\/07\/cardinal-cormac-murphy-oconnor-britain-is-unfriendly-for-religious-people\/"},"modified":"2008-12-07T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T20:37:00","slug":"cardinal-cormac-murphy-oconnor-britain-is-unfriendly-for-religious-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2008\/12\/07\/cardinal-cormac-murphy-oconnor-britain-is-unfriendly-for-religious-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Cormac Murphy O&#8217;Connor: Britain is &#8216;unfriendly&#8217; for religious people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3KcDDpUUfo\/STw0ZP_QmbI\/AAAAAAAAAN0\/lSaZl52eH3c\/s1600-h\/murphy-oconnor_1175432c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 320px;height: 200px\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3KcDDpUUfo\/STw0ZP_QmbI\/AAAAAAAAAN0\/lSaZl52eH3c\/s320\/murphy-oconnor_1175432c.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Thanks to anticant for this ink to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/religion\/3628448\/Cardinal-Cormac-Murphy-OConnor-Britain-is-unfriendly-for-religious-people.html\">a Telegraph article<\/a>.<br \/><span style=\"font-style:italic\"><br \/>Britain&#8217;s most senior Catholic leader says that the &#8220;unfriendly climate for people of all faiths&#8221; has united the country&#8217;s three major faiths, Christianity, Judaism and Islam.<\/p>\n<p>However, he claims that Catholicism has borne the brunt of &#8220;liberal hostility&#8221; in its battles to fight for values it considers to be &#8220;fundamental pillars of a rightly ordered society&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The vocal minority who argue that religion has no role in modern British society portray Catholic teaching on the family as prejudiced and intolerant to those pursuing alternatives,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, the cardinal highlights the Church&#8217;s opposition to liberal laws on abortion and homosexuality, its defence of faith schools and its support for marriage.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to anticant for this ink to a Telegraph article.Britain&#8217;s most senior Catholic leader says that the &#8220;unfriendly climate for people of all faiths&#8221; has united the country&#8217;s three major faiths, Christianity, Judaism and Islam. However, he claims that Catholicism has borne the brunt of &#8220;liberal hostility&#8221; in its battles to fight for values it [&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-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","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=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}