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February 20, 2009
Turbulence
Holocaust denier and ersatz bishop Richard Williamson has been ordered to leave Argentina.
The Interior Ministry said it had ordered Richard Williamson out of Argentina because he had failed to declare his true job as director of a seminary on immigration forms and because his comments on the Holocaust "profoundly insult Argentine society, the Jewish community and all of humanity by denying a historic truth."
I am by no means certain this is good news. By all means, expel Williamson for failing to meet the requirements of his visa but I am less sanguine at the prospect of people being ordered to leave the country on the grounds of being an idiot, for all that he is an idiot with a pulpit. Worse yet, the government of Argentina seemed to have no difficulty with Williamson until he became a well known idiot with a pulpit.
Better to let his NGO sort him out community-organizer-style.
The flap led the Vatican to demand that the British clergyman recant before he can be admitted as a bishop in the Roman Catholic Church. It also prompted the Society of St. Pius X, founded by Lefebvre, to dismiss Williamson as director of the La Reja seminary in Argentina and to distance itself from his views.
As I said, much better.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at February 20, 2009 05:51 AM
