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The manner in which Cardinal O’Brien has been deposed is more despicable than anything he’s alleged to have done

By Brendan O’Neill
Last updated: February 27th, 2013

What did Cardinal Keith O’Brien do that was so bad? He is alleged to have made inappropriate advances to young men when he was a teacher of priests in the 1980s. But is not a crime to make sexual advances to men over the age of 18. It is not child abuse (despite the best efforts of the press to lump O’Brien together with paedophile priests). Nor is what he is alleged to have done perverted in any way. It can at best be described as stupid – and if everyone in Britain who has ever done something stupid was thrown out of their jobs, the nation would grind to a halt.

Ah, but O’Brien’s alleged…