Tom Griffin (London, OK): Liberal Democrat MP Dr Evan Harris has announced that he is to table a Commons motion to reform the Act of Settlement. Evans proposals would allow the sovereign to marry a Catholic and let women to take equal precedence in the line of succession.
Writing in his Telegraph blog, Holy Smoke, Catholic Herald editor Damian Thompson is not impressed:
Dr Evan Harris, the Lib Dem MP nicknamed "Dr Death" for his creepy determination to make late-term abortions and euthanasia more widely available, now has a new cause: he wants to remove the ban on the heir to the throne marrying a Catholic.
You know something? Catholics don't want to be liberated from this constitutional discrimination by a politician who advocates an end to the requirement that any abortion requires the consent of two doctors, arguing that the "procedure" can carried out by a nurse or even in the home.
Perhaps the alternative conclusion is that Dr Harris's obvious differences with the Catholic Church make his opposition to discrimination all the more principled.
