MungoBrush wrote:
Do you think that Arlene Foster is a "religious bigot" as per the OP's opening post?
The DUP party is riven with them. As leader of Labour, you endlessly droned on at Corbyn and his handling of supposed anti-Semitism. I assume DUP leadership gets similar treatment from you ?
Creationism is pretty rare in the United Kingdom, but not unheard of among the elected politicians of the DUP.
Last year the party's Assembly member for West Tyrone, Thomas Buchanan, praised an event promoting the rejection of evolution among children.
He told the Irish News: "I’m someone who believes in creationism and that the world was spoken into existence in six days by His power."
The Caleb Foundation, described as one of the leading creationist pressure groups in Northern Ireland, pushed for creationist theory to be displayed at the Giant's Causeway - and its chairman met none other than Arlene Foster, then tourism minister and now DUP leader, to discuss the request.
The Caleb Foundation are also involved with DUP's refusal to accept gay marriage in NI. DUP Assembly member Mervyn Storey sits on the council of the evangelical Caleb Foundation, which warns Northern Ireland is on a "very dangerous and sinister road" and there must be "no room for compromise".
And I haven't even mentioned the terrorist links.
The terrorist group Ulster Resistance was founded by a collection of people who went on to be prominent DUP politicians.
Former First Minister Peter Robinson, for example, who was DUP leader and Northern Ireland’s first minister until last year, was an active member of Ulster Resistance.
Find out just how religion plays a part in pressuring NI politicians here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caleb_Foundation