This is an absolutely extraordinary judgement from a @churchofengland consistory court, ruling that the Irish language cannot appear on a memorial on account of 'the passions and feelings connected with the use of
Irish Gaelic' https://www.ecclesiasticallawassociation.org.uk/index.php/judgements/memorials/re-st-giles-exhall-2020-ecc-cov-1/viewdocument/837
If the judgement had been based solely on concerns about comprehensibility for the majority of people in Coventry (which is also referenced in the judgement) it might be defensible
But the judgement not only rules against Irish on the grounds that it could be seen as a political statement, but proceeds on the *assumption* that the use of Irish must be a political statement unless the contrary can be shown (read the full judgement)
I am left open-mouthed at this apparent resurgence of old-fashioned anti-Irish prejudice, not only in a judicial tribunal, but in a judicial tribunal of the church. This is shocking
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