Christian Cross is an "advertisement"

A church in the city of Dudley in England has been told that it needs council planning permission to put up a cross outside its church because a cross is an "advertisement". But it's not the local council that is at fault. Apparently Britain has a law applicable nationwide saying that crosses are advertisements! See here. But the council IS responsible for its decision to charge 75 pounds (roughly $150.00) for the needed peremission.

I wonder when minarets on Mosques will be treated as advertisements? They are there to call people to Muslim prayers so they are more like advertisements than crosses are, it seems to me. But since when was ANY religious symbol an "advertisement"? In the USA the whole thing would be a violation of constitutionally protected freedom of religion, I imagine. But Britain has no constitution so once you get the Leftist nutjobs in power they can pass any nutty law they like. And they do.




Two Short Notes:

1). I mentioned recently that American newspaper headlines seem much more politically correct than Australian ones. An American reader has just pointed out to me an Australian headline that would be most unlikely to appear in a mainstream American newspaper but which appeared in Australia's "Herald Sun" -- the major newspaper of Melbourne. The headline is: "Sex fiend escapes offenders register". America does not have any sex fiends any more apparently.

But in this age of the internet, Australian newspapers are only a click away so you do have some choice of where you get your news now. I have always been a bit surprised to note Australian newspapers quoted rather a lot on the internet so I think I now know why.


2). Another disgusted American reader emailed me as follows:

"I work in Information Technology for a large health care system. Recently we had a power outage on one of our campuses. In a meeting the next week our team performance was summarized and it was made clear to us that from that point on our process will no longer be referred to as "Disaster Recovery" but will now be called "IT Service Continuity Management".

The reader ended his email with: "AAARRRGHGHGHGH!!!!!"