British Prime Minister Tony Blair is insisting that the success of multiculturalism in the United Kingdom depends on "Britons of all backgrounds respecting the nation's 'essential values'."
He advised immigrants to stay away from the country if they are not prepared to "integrate" and accept the nation's tradition of tolerance of other faiths.
Blair defined Britain's "essential values" as "belief in democracy, the rule of law, tolerance, equal treatment for all, respect for this country and its shared heritage".
By rule of law, Blair meant the rule of secular law -- law as defined by Parliament with the consent of the governed. He said, "There is no question of the UK allowing the introduction of religious law in the UK."
Those who dream of theocratic rule in this life will find no welcome from politicians in the UK.
Theocrats of the Christian faith who choose to immigrate to the United States, however, would likely find a warm reception with James Dobson, Pat Robertson, D. James Kennedy, Jerry Falwell and the political leaders under their influence. Tolerance, multiculturalism, and secularism are still anathema to them.
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England still remembers the misery inflicted on it by Oliver Cromwell and his bully boys enforcing stoic morality. They did the same thing then -- all those who want to cram their religion down the throats of others go to the New World. The Puritans are still making the people in this country miserable. Especially since the Baptists and Methodists forgot their heritage and have been assimilated into Calvinism.
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