"Conservatives"

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http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/british-mp-urges-government-to-force-churches-into-same-sex-unions?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=4aa5467bd0-LifeSiteNews_com_Intl_Headlines09_08_2011&utm_medium=email

What is breathtaking is that no British news medium seems to have given this any attention.

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Of course. Rome invented bureaucracy. And used it in the Decian persecution to try and uproot the Church from the face of the earth, using the resources of its census to force every single person in the empire to sacrifice or be executed. But the fact that bureaucracy could be used to support religious goals (such as the extermination of the impious Christians) does not mean that the bureaucracy was itself independent of religion. Quite the opposite. Rome knew no separation of Church and State. The priests were as much state functionaries as the consuls, the Senate had religious duties such as validating new cults, and the Emperor was both Supreme Pontiff and Tribune of the People. The separation of Church and State was a Christian invention.