Interesting Links for 05-12-2012

[andrewducker]

• Voyager 1 spots new region at the edge of the Solar System
  (tags: space )
• Women actually negotiate as much as men do - they just get less for it.
  (tags: pay women society )
• Consent given for change to royal succession rules. Women and Catholics get to be treated like _real people_!
  (tags: religion monarchy uk women )
• What if programming

Comments

[a_pawson]

Interestingly whilst the proposed bill will permit the reigning monarch to marry a Roman Catholic, nobody is proposing to reform the law preventing the monarch him/herself from being a Catholic. Perhaps in another 500 years that might get repealed.

[andrewducker]

By which point we'll all be under the lash of the Space Pope anyway!

[danieldwilliam]

Established Church innit.

[philmophlegm]

Well quite. Arguing that the monarch doesn't need to be a member of the Church of England is the same as arguing that the Pope (the one in Rome, not any of the other ones) doesn't need to be a Roman Catholic.

Of course we could always separate Church and State, and I'd be all in favour of that. But until that happens, how could the law change?

[khbrown]

Does it only refer to Roman Catholicism or to all religions that are not C of E?

[andrewducker]

Good question! I think they were only banned from marrying Catholics though.