Make The Pope Pay
By NATIONAL SECULAR SOCIETY
Added: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 UTC
http://www.secularism.org.uk/petition-the-pm.html
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to ask the Catholic Church to pay for the proposed visit of the Pope to the UK and relieve the taxpayer of the estimated £20 million cost. We accept the right of the Pope to visit his followers in Britain, but public money would be better spent on hard-pressed schools, hospitals and social services which are facing cuts.
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