Devon Parish magazine faces backlash after publishing cartoon featuring a priest joking that killing a politician is 'community service'

A parish magazine is facing a backlash after publishing a cartoon about a woman and a priest joking about the murder of an MP.

Residents reacted with fury over the 'joke' cartoon published in Instow Parish News - a parish magazine covering the North Devon village and nearby Westleigh and West Yelland.

The cartoon features an elderly woman giving a confession to a priest, saying: 'Bless me, father, for I have sinned. Last night I killed a politician...'

The priest responds: 'My daughter, I'm here to listen to your sins, not your community service work.'

The cartoon was published in the magazine's August edition, two months before the killing of MP Sir David Amess.

The Tory politician was stabbed to death at a constituency surgery held in a church in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex earlier this month.

The cartoon has since been removed from the online edition of the publication, after a backlash from residents who wrote in to the publication saying it was in 'bad taste'.

And now one councillor from the area now called for an end of 'demonising our MPs' in the wake of Sir David's death.

The row over the carton began after it was first published in the Instow Parish News magazine in August. A number of residents wrote into the magazine, which is published in print and online, to complain about the joke, including the local Bishop Revd. Brenda Jacobs.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10115993/Devon-Parish-magazine-faces-backlash-publishing-cartoon-woman-killing-MP.html

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Voluntary Asisted Dying law in Queensland, Australia

Applegarth is Labor’s golden-haired boy right now after successfully steering the assisted suicide laws into the Parliament via his role as the Chair of the Queensland Law Reform Commission.

However, I will not forgive nor forget how the architects of the VAD Bill avoided using the word “suicide” because of the stigma associated with it. And Applegarth and others who framed the laws ludicrously pretend that suicide is not suicide at all.

“The Bill provides that a person who dies as a result of self-administration or administration of a voluntary assisted dying substance does not die by suicide and is taken to have died from the disease, illness or medical condition from which they suffered,” says an explanatory note given to MPs.

To my mind that is intellectual dishonesty.

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