Weblog of a Country Priest

We are a hypocritical people.

We incarcerate, we humiliate, we deport, those who obey the rules and follow the system.

We don't even know the numbers of those who refuse to play the game, but it is estimated that they form 1 in 10 of the UK population according to provisional figures from our own government.

We applaud ourselves for being 21st century in our approval of and acceptance of the gay members of society, and we throw our hands up in horror when an older man or woman finds their security and comfort in the company of a 14 year old who reciprocates those simple human feelings.

We wring our hands when an infant is fatally flawed, or disfigured, or wanting some sort of replacement surgery, or dies in the womb and so on...

But we destroy about 250,000 embryos every year as a form of contraception...

Father, forgive us, even though we do know what we do...