Over at PledgeBank is a new pledge to supply each of Britain’s MPs with a copy of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion.

I will arrange for my MP to receive a copy of Richard Dawkins’ book The God Delusion but only if 645 other people (one per UK constituency) will do the same for other MPs.

The head of the UK Catholic Church has today (23 January 2007) asked the UK parliament to exempt Catholic adoption agencies from being forced to consider equally, applications from homosexual couples.

I do not believe the church should be given special status. Catholics, like everyone else in the country, should play by the rules. Faith should not exempt one from being guilty of discrimination.

Richard Dawkins, as Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, is best placed to make this argument, and his book “The God Delusion” (costing 11 pounds online) does it convincingly.

I will buy a copy, and have it delivered to my own MP. Should this pledge gain momentum, I additionally undertake to maintain a simple online list of MP’s (and their addresses) for whom pledges have been received, to eliminate duplication of effort, at http://www.jamiechristie.com/cands/

The deadline is 31st March 2007, and at the time of writing 174 people have signed up, with 471 more needed.

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