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Gay News: Online petition against the Papal visit
By: Nigel Robinson
Pope Benedict is to visit the UK in September
Pope Benedict is to visit the UK in September
Sign the online petition against the Pope's visit to the UK
Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has submitted a petition to the Government to protest against the Pope's planned visit to the UK in September.
The petition reads:
"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to disassociate the British government from the Pope's intolerant views ahead of the Papal visit to Britain in September 2010.
“We urge the Prime Minister to make it clear that his government disagrees with the Pope's opposition to women's reproductive rights, gay equality, embryonic stem cell research and the use of condoms to prevent the spread of HIV.
“We ask the Prime Minister to express his disagreement with the Pope's role in the cover-up of child sex abuse by Catholic clergy, his rehabilitation of the Holocaust-denying bishop Richard Williamson, and his decree paving the way for the beatification and sainthood of the war-time Pope, Pius XII, who stands accused of failing to speak out against the Holocaust.
“We also request the Prime Minister to assure us that the Pope's visit will not be financed by the British taxpayer."
”This petition is very important and could have a big impact,” says Tatchell.
“Protocol requires the Prime Minister to personally respond to each petition. The more signatures we get, the more pressure Gordon Brown will be under to give a detailed response. Help us put him on the spot.”
The petition can be signed here at http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/ProtestthePope/
