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is terrified of Scottish Catholics</A></DIV></H2>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.5em">via <A class=f
href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/ukcorrespondents/holysmoke/">Telegraph Blogs
: UK : Holy Smoke</A> by <A
href="mailto:damian.thompson@telegraph.co.uk">damian.thompson@telegraph.co.uk</A>
(Damian Thompson) on 3/27/08</DIV><BR style="DISPLAY: none">
<P>Why is Gordon Brown “considering” <A title=telegraph.co.uk
href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/27/ncatholic127.xml">abolishing
the Act of Settlement</A> that stops Catholics marrying into the Royal
Family or becoming monarch? The answer has nothing to do with human rights and
everything to do with his fear of losing the Scottish Catholic vote at the
general election.</P>
<P><IMG height=200 alt="Cardinal Keith O'Brien"
src="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/VirtualContent/85688/keithobrien27.jpg"
width=400><BR><STRONG>The Cardinal's intervention in the embryo bill row was
significant</STRONG></P>
<P>Significantly, it was Cardinal Keith O’Brien of St Andrews and Edinburgh who
really <A title=telegraph.co.uk
href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/21/nembryo121.xml">stoked
up the row </A>about Catholic Labour MPs being forced to vote in favour of the
“monstrous” creation of human-animal hybrid embryos. </P>
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