An English Reader Says That Tony Blair’s Catholicism Would Not Have Been An Electoral Liability in Great Britain

By VDARE.com Reader

09/04/2010

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I am English and in England, so I can assure being a Roman Catholic is not an electoral liability in the UK — and that is not why Tony Blair delayed his conversion to Catholicism. After all, Tony Blair used to take Communion in Roman Catholic churches while he was prime minister — this is against the rules of the Roman Catholic Church, and after a while, the Cardinal asked Mr. Blair to stop doing it. However, Tony Blair supports abortion and so does his party, and the Church may have baulked at allowing a Prime minister whose government was so pro-abortion to convert.

His government was also pro-homosexuality and in 2007 passed laws that required all Catholic adoption agencies to allow homosexuals to adopt children — Tony Blair resigned in 2007, but the law was either passed shortly before or shortly after he left — he didn’t do anything to help the Catholics while he was in power.

Maybe he didn’t want to convert while in office because it could have made internal Labour Party issues re: adoption and homosexuality more difficult — but, to underline this, there is no electoral liability for Catholics in the UK, or at least outside of Northern Ireland.

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