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(London) Times–Pope Benedict XVI attacks Labour's equality push
The Pope has made an unprecedented attack on the human rights policies of Gordon Brown’s Government, claiming that they threaten religious freedom and urging Catholic bishops to fight back with “missionary zeal”.
Pope Benedict XVI said that new equality legislation was unjust and violated natural law.
He urged the 35 Catholic bishops from England and Wales, in Rome on a five-yearly “ad limina” visit, to make a united stand against the Equality Bill currently going through Parliament.
He claimed the proposed new laws threatened “long-standing British traditions” of freedom of speech.
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