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Originally Posted by Brillopad
Just because he is anti-abortion doesn't mean he either could or would try to enshrine such views in our laws, not in 2017. Same with homophobia. He is an intelligent man and would know better than to try. He would have to keep the two completely separate.
Seems like a lot of hysterical assumptions are being made here. Has he actually said if he were PM he would stop all abortions or stop gay marriage. This is the West no matter who is in charge. We are not under Sharia law.
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Someone who is apparently so devout that they wouldn't be able to see that certain parts of the bible are products of it's time and are no longer applicable in today's world is ill suited to power. Fundamentalist religion has no place in politics and you can't say that his prejudices would not affect his decisions, you can't tell me that he'd put his religion aside and would make decisions that would go against that if he is so devout that he believes in archaic views like that.
Religious fundamentalism has no place in politics.
I like how you are making excuses for him though when, if his religion happened to be islam and he was preaching what he preached as a catholic, you would condemn him without a second thought simply because he'd be a muslim while I'd still condemn him all the same.