Britain’s foreign office has apologised for a memorandum by a civil servant suggesting Pope Benedict should open a hospital abortion ward when he visits Britain this year. The document, which was leaked to the Sunday Telegraph newspaper, also included proposals that the Pope should bless a gay marriage and launch papal-branded condoms when he comes to Britain in September.
The paper said the ideas, ridiculing the teachings of the Catholic Church against abortion and contraception, resulted from a “brainstorm” session. It said Britain’s ambassador to the Vatican had expressed the government’s regret to senior officials there.
“This is clearly a foolish document that does not in any way reflect UK government or FCO policy or views,” a spokesman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said.
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Why is the UK apologizing to a so called head of a self declared state. Surely the joke is using UK tax payers money to fund the proliferation of homophobic ideas in public.
Not to mention some of the other out dated and crazy ideas like encouraging unprotected sex and denying the rights of women to choose on abortion.
The writer of the memo should be praised for having the guts to raise this to Bureaucrat’s attention. Surey this yet anther good example of the need to separate church from state