Nefarious Ends

As befits a Christian, his grace the Archbishop of Canterbury has come out against the legalisation of assisted dying. He came out in the Rothermere Daily Stürmer, which should certainly put paid to any perception of his church as a social club for gay-baiters, blue-rinsers and myth-mongers; and as befits a Christian, he worried that any attempt to ease the pain and suffering which God has seen fit to inflict might place us on a slippery slope towards a duty to die, as in "every other place where it's been done." As befits a Christian, his grace did not deign to cite evidence, and was contradicted by the sponsor of the proposed legislation who, as befits a member of Team Starmer's parliamentary Labour Party, has huge amounts of respect for people who say things that aren't true. The bill has not yet been published, but there is still some doubt as to whether it will cover those who wish to end their suffering without being terminally ill; and, as befits a Christian, his grace will doubtless take comfort from that.