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Italy's crucifix case and UK's climate change decision: for God's sake leave religion out of this | Michael White

Source: guardian.co.uk Politics

Nov 04, 2009

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Where did Soile Lautsi think she was moving to, Thailand? And why has Tim Nicholson played into the hands of the anti-climate change lobby?

Cheer up. The leaves may be coming off the trees, the nights are drawing in. But we are not alone in breeding idiots, as we sometimes tell each other in our egotistical way. Finland bred Soile Lautsi without British help.

Who she? No, not David Cameron's European policy adviser or even a board member at General Motors, whose overnight U-turn over the sale of Opel and Vauxhall demonstrates how a once-great car company can be ploughed into the ground in the ruins of Detroit.

So who is she? Lautsi is the Finnish-born mum, living in northern Italy, who has just won her eight-year battle to get crucifixes removed from classrooms in the school where her two children were then being taught, though by now they may be graduates.

Crucifixes? Italy? Where did Soile she think she was moving to live? Thailand? What will she campaign to ban next? Pizza, the mafia, bling, cheating at football? Little wonder that the papal knickers are in a

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