Creeping Constitutional Change gathering momentum

12 October 2011

Our politicians, who can hardly draft equitable laws, nor oversee major projects such as the Scottish Parliament, the Edinburgh trams project, and the Millennium Dome, are tinkering with our constitutional laws.

Along with the change of the definition of marriage, even paedophilia, there are other constitutional changes in the offing.  In Scotland, the SNP government is discovering that the Supreme Court is claiming a role over Scotland resulting in a power struggle similar to the Church of Scotland experienced in the 1843 Disruption, with a Lord Hope in the centre in both cases.

In Westminster, David Cameron’s wrecking ball, destroying the concept and definition of marriage, changing the definition of Conservatism, is swinging towards the monarchy itself.  He wants to change the Act of Settlement which gives male children the right of precedence over their older sisters in the order of succession to the throne.  Mr Cameron also said the ban on any monarch married to a Roman Catholic was an “historical anomaly” and could not “continue to be justified”.

Having abandoned God’s law, Britain now has different administrations of law competing with each other - Holyrood, Westminster and Brussels.  In the ensuing conflict, there is opportunity to dismantle unwanted laws.  It has been often pointed out that unravelling the Act of Settlement will lead to unknown consequences - but this is no trouble to David Cameron and his swashbuckling attitude to traditional values.

Roman Catholics are expected to raise their children as Roman Catholics, so that a Roman Catholic consort to a British Monarch would be under constant pressure to do so, and the British public would be under constant pressure to allow it.  When this happens, this automatically means that the heir to the Throne will be a Roman Catholic, with the constitutional consequences thereof.  It also means that the Roman Catholic religion of the Monarch would be locked in ad perpetuam.  This would be no better than the current situation.  It will be interesting to learn how David Cameron considers that this could be avoided.  It is likely that he has not thought about it, although we are told that he did not propose changing the ban on monarchs themselves being Roman Catholic because the British monarch is also head of the Church of England.  So what about the children?

As our economy collapses, our moral fabric decays, our public institutions fail to safeguard our society, we are entering uncharted seas without a steady hand at the tiller.

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