Yeah, I was going to suggest something along those lines. With a subset of 'the church is being unjust in talking about helping asylum seekers, because that means that they want to take money that ought to go to the deserving, and give it to scum...
Ack: while checking what the weekly allowance for asylum seekers is, I found this article from a local paper reporting the C of E diocese of Manchester's Lent initiative (challenging teachers in church schools to live on said allowance for a week: £15 to raise money for a fund for asylum seekers). It's a nice article, even if I suspect it was largely written by the diocesan press officer - but the comments (bar one) tend to confirm your theory. Unfortunately...
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Date: 2009-03-30 10:54 pm (UTC)Ack: while checking what the weekly allowance for asylum seekers is, I found this article from a local paper reporting the C of E diocese of Manchester's Lent initiative (challenging teachers in church schools to live on said allowance for a week: £15 to raise money for a fund for asylum seekers). It's a nice article, even if I suspect it was largely written by the diocesan press officer - but the comments (bar one) tend to confirm your theory. Unfortunately...