'Thou shalt shoplift' says priest

lol :o

Ahhh... finally an defence burglars can use in court.

GOD told me to do it.

sephyAhhh... finally an defence burglars can use in court.

GOD told me to do it.

lol say that and they'l think ur insane lool

Stealing is never right. It is a sin.

He's not, if I read him right, a kleptomaniac who has slipped up. His compassion for the erstwhile shoplifter who has to eat or has a family to feed is consistent with his reading of his faith, which urges goodwill to all and leaves him uncertain what those individuals should most immediately do, especially given the recently exposed moral decrepitude of perfectly legal economics. I might be wrong, perhaps they'll let the vicar out and he'll murder again. Let it be a disclaimer.

Another shoplifting thing:

Magistrate who used term 'Paki shop' will not be sacked

Carol Robson has instead been given a reprimand and ordered to take ''diversity training'', the Office for Judicial Complaints said.

A disciplinary panel had recommended she should be removed from her job, but Mrs Robson appealed and the punishment was reduced after a review found she had ''no racist intent''.

Mrs Robson made the comment during a hearing at Sunderland Magistrates' Court in June 2008. Sentencing a shoplifter, she told the offender not to go back to the ''Paki shop'' where he was caught.

If she isn't really racist I can picture her saying it quite innocently in a Geordie accent, perhaps echoing comments made by the defendant (or not), and the silence that probably then descended over the court (as the defendant realised a lawyer would have been a handy thing at that point; or failing that a trendy vicar).

I don't think the leniency against stealing for necessity applies in the uk - there is a welfare system here.

It may not allow people to live like royalty, but it also stops people from starving to death.

You're right, and there are soup kitchens and so on. Taken at face value it is a shocking thing to say - but I still recognise he has an underlying point.

Joie de VivreYou're right, and there are soup kitchens and so on. Taken at face value it is a shocking thing to say - but I still recognise he has an underlying point.

Same here - just not in the UK as I see it.