Posted on 04/14/2013 5:46:28 AM PDT by markomalley
The Bishop of Grantham has branded the decision to give Baroness Thatcher a ceremonial funeral with full military honours a "mistake".
The Rt Rev Tim Ellis, speaking from Lady Thatcher's birthplace in Lincolnshire on Sunday, said the funeral was "asking for trouble" and should be "more low-key and personal".
More than 800 personnel from the Armed Forces units that played a key part in the Falklands conflict will line the route of the funeral procession from the Palace of Westminster to St Paul's Cathedral in London on Wednesday. It is thought the funeral will cost in the region of £8 million.
Police have said they are braced for trouble from protesters after a series of 'parties' celebrating Lady Thatcher's death were held last week.
The Rt Rev Tim Ellis said: "I am not surprised by the parties which show that events of 30/40 years ago still engender that kind of violent reaction because her reign was very divisive and controversial, and people still remember that today.
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The Bishop of Grantham is wrong, she deserves great respect. It is due her.
I have no use for the English King/Queen bull, but Thatcher was an icon and an English Patriot. The Idiot Left in England should shut their mouth.
Eff off Bishop...shouldn’t you be out ministering to your Muslim imam friends?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9351453/Bishops-rebel-against-Church-marriage-policy.html
The same bishop agitating for gay marriage within the Anglican church
Trouble? Good! I hope the left goes absolutely mad.
Too bad that in nannyengland these military and ex-military will be UNARMED.
Leni
The Rt Rev Tim Ellis appears to be among the 98% of C of E clergymen who give the other 2% a bad name.
So just dump her corpse in a quiet country ditch somewhere and pretend that she never existed, much less served at the UK’s longest standing PM...is that what these lunatics want?
Her democratically elected government (U.S. American: "administration") was in power; it is incorrect to refer to that as a "reign."
Regards,
The Rt Rev Tim Ellis appears to be among the 98% of C of E clergymen who give the other 2% a bad name.
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LOL Very funny way of putting it. Unfortunately it’s moving in that direction rapidly.
It is thought the funeral will cost in the region of £8 million. That means it will cost 12,276,000 million dollars. Baroness Thatcher would be outraged. She was for saving money. If that number is correct than they are going against Margaret Thatcher’s wishes for her funeral.
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So in other words, only people whose views he agrees with deserve that honor.
Wonder if some of those Falkland vets might do a little ass-kicking?
Anyone got any idea why it is apparently impossible for anyone with integrity and a microphone to say “We really don’t care if it offends you or not”??
Just once and more would follow. That’s what leaders do. And Thatcher did.
” her reign was very divisive and controversial”
Liberalspeak for “we didn’t get our Marxist ways”.
Who would protest at Thatcher’s funeral? Degenerate commie scum that’s who.
The meek Anglican’s are used to being bullied by the left.
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