Vicar backs Kingston candidates' anti-BNP stance (From Kingston Guardian)

• "Racism is not what you have been told.
  
  Who said that wanting to keep your own country is racist?Surely racism is where someone else wants to take it from you!
  
  And it is not your right to impose your view of what is acceptable on everyone else: that is the prerogative of the electorate collectively. That is the whole point of an election.
  
  Love thy neighbour does not mean giving away your country any more than it means giving away your wife, home, or job. You must not pitch one part of the Holy Bible against another - that would lead to chaos.
  
  We should certainly help foreigners where we can; but that does not mean, surely, ceding our country to them.
  
  They have now got their independence (quite rightly): it is about time we had ours.
  
  "If any man provide not for his own and especially for those of his own household he has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel" (1 Tim 5: 8).
  
  A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing! The clergy need to impart a lot more knowledge to their congregations. The Bible has a political theory in it which is not drawn from individual morality; and nations are part of that political theory. Let us see that we follow it, aetheist or not."
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