Southport Champion September 3rd 2003
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"Referring to her religious beliefs, he (John Pugh) described her as a "committed pagan, who has had major fall-outs even within the tiny circle of British pagans". He also questioned whether Mrs Regan is the right person to lead C.A.R.E.S. |
"I am convinced that it is no part of the objectives of the Bill to discriminate against religion, to cause any religious furore, to trample on conscience or to make religious bodies feel that they will be treated worse than sporting bodies.
A compromise is possible, but I do not know whether new clause 1 will achieve it. I hope that it will. However, it would not—on this point I disagree with the hon. Gentleman—give an inalienable right to any religious body. It simply states that the Government should be mindful of freedom of conscience and religious belief. It asks only for mindfulness, not an inalienable right. " |
It is difficult to reconcile the statements on religion that our Member of Parliament, John Pugh, makes in House of Commons debates with the statements he makes about one of his own constituents. They conflict with each other to such an extent that one must seriously question Mr Pugh's intentions and religious convictions. Mr Pugh appears to be so vindictive against the CARES group for evicting him and his LibDem associates, that he has, without any honourable justification, introduced the religious beliefs of another member that have no conceivable connection to the CARES group. He has, of course, done this in order to incite prejudice and intolerance from others who have only a negative view of such beliefs from films and books. How can he maintain otherwise when he is a doctor of philosophy and the former head of religion at a local public school?
Formby Times September 11th 2003