'St Paul's damaged for a generation'

[ktlight]

FYI:
"St Paul's Cathedral's reputation will be “damaged for a generation” if it takes legal action to evict anti-capitalist protestors, a former close adviser to the Archbishop of Canterbury warned.


Former media advisor of the Archbishop of Canterbury, George Pitcher, has warned that the cathedral officials' decision to seek a court injunction in order to evict Occupy London Stock Exchange (LSX) protestors would severely damage the institution, reported the Independent on Friday.

“The Cathedral appears to be embarking on a strategy that will end with the eventual forced - and quite possibly violent - eviction of protestors which would damage the reputation of the Church of England for an entire generation,” said Pitcher.

LSX protestors, who have been camping outside St Paul's for the third consecutive week, initially aimed at pitching a permanent campsite in Paternoster Square, the location of the London Stock Exchange headquarters.

Nevertheless, the British police, using violent tactics such as kettling, prevented protestors from camping in Paternoster Square so that they were forced to set up their camp outside St Paul's.

The canon chancellor of the cathedral, the Reverend Dr Giles Fraser, supported the protestors when he asked the police forces outside the church to leave.

Nevertheless, the dean of St Paul's Cathedral, who was concerned over the church's income that was affected by its closure, asked the protestors to leave the church as he warned of evicting the protestors saying he would consult “lawyers and the Corporation of London” to remove the protestors.

After calls for evicting the demonstrators grew stronger, Fraser resigned because he feared evicting the protestors would lead to “violence in the name of the Church.”

The protestors outside the church have said that Fraser's decision further inspired them to remain steadfast in protesting against corporate greed and capitalism."

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http://www.presstv.ir/detail/207337.html

[Lord Sidious]

You mean to tell me the anglican church still has a reputation worth saving?
Well, I never!

[the trojan]

sanctuary! sanctuary!
he of the hunched back.

[vibrations]

If the Archbishop would care just a 1% about the abusers of their men in skirts as they care for some kind of imaginable reputation, than we could talk of some progress in a church.