Dear Mr Ratzinger
I confess that, like many around these shores, I'm not enamoured by the thought of spending a hospital's worth of public money on you visiting us, what with your stance on AIDS, gays, abortion, women, condoms and your cover-up of child rape.

Therefore, I also confess that I will be one of many making you unwelcome in London on 18th September.

Sorry for lack of LOLs, but I promise to make amends by having a seriously* funny placard.

_{* Funniness of placard not guaranteed. Your LOLs may go down as well as up.}
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 14:16, 12 replies)

I'm also participating on the 18th & hoping we get hundreds of people taking part

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 14:54, closed)

Scotland
you know if anything is happening north of the border?
(Clashrock is being stalked by his brother on, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 15:51, closed)

loads hopefully
The day the last chief God botherer visited (sometime in 1982?) was the day I was told I needed glasses. andI was too young to have even started the activity meant to cause dodgy eyesight! Clearly it was his fault. Don't look at the pope, you'll go blind!
( SteamedCleaner, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 16:00, closed)

?
Ironically, this will actually raise the total cost of his visit, due to the extra policing and so forth.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 17:54, closed)

There is a way this would save money
If he gets arrested on Day 1, then he'll be as safe as houses and we can redeploy the money to something worthwhile.
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 22:07, closed)

It's true.
Best way for people to express their opprobrium, which I share, is to ignore the visit entirely. I mean, if you're going to have a real go at killing him then crack on, otherwise your sexy placards aren't actually going to change anything.

Catholicism in the UK is a minority religion and the very few Catholics that do abide absolutely by its precepts (ie anti-gay, anti-birth-control etc etc.) can be numbered in their thousands. You're not really going to change their entrenched views, however loudly Pete Tatchell shrieks.
(Happybara The jungle came alive and took him, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 22:45, closed)

Depending on how you measure it
teh Catholics are the largest religion membership in the UK, yes still a minority, but something like 20-30%. Similar situation in the US where they are the largest denomination by membership. And yeah, like most christian churches, they aren't fans of teh gay or abortion.
I'm not a fan of religion, but sometimes I feel though, that at least some of the anti-catholic sentiment is good old religious predujidice. The Catholics weren't treated well post reformation for a very long time, anti-catholic laws staying on the books well into the 19th C.
Sure, protest the Pope (the current one seems more of a dick than usual), but don't think that the Catholic church has a monopoly on silly religious beliefs that cause harm. Take the time out to protest the next visit by the Dalai Lama, as well.
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Sat 28 Aug 2010, 19:12, closed)

Protest the Pope
The clue is in the name. We're not protesting Catholicism (or at least I'm not, anyway).

The Pope is quite welcome to visit, but should be subject to the same laws as the rest of us, and most especially should not expect us to pick up the tab.

Is the Dalai Lama accused of covering up widespread systematic child abuse within his ranks? Not that I know of. If he was, I'd quite happily protest a state-sponsored visit by him, too.
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 11:19, closed)

That "man" makes me furious.
A vile, disgusting neolithic monster! I'm almost spitting with rage at the mere though of that disgusting example of everything you should not be.

If I lived in London, I'd be there in a snap. As it is I live in Scotland and am very poor. I'm just happy I'm not working enough to pay taxes to be used to support his visit.
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Sat 28 Aug 2010, 0:42, closed)

I have it on very good authority
that the current pope in the antichrist, and the next pope will be named Peter, and the rapture will start 3 weeks from Tuesday. That's what the guy on the bus told me Nostradamus said. So put that in your pipe and smoke it, as the Dutch say.
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Sat 28 Aug 2010, 19:03, closed)

If you're stuck for a slogan...
...may I suggest:

"Superstition ain't the way" - Stevie Wonder.
(minimalist ..., Sun 29 Aug 2010, 0:36, closed)

The more
I see this man the more i think he looks like Darth Sidious
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 11:47, closed)