Tee! Hee! The party’s promotion of gay marriage grates with his Catholicism.

Hat tip to the Christian Institute.

One of the Conservative’s biggest donors is reportedly pulling his funding over the party’s stance on gay marriage.

Billionaire Michael Hintze said he was “deeply upset” by the Tories’ “promotion” of same-sex marriage.

A Tory insider told the Daily Mail that Hintze, who is said to want his £2.5 million loan to the party back, would have also liked to have seen “a more radical economic agenda”.

Fed up

“Michael is fed up with David Cameron and George Osborne and doesn’t see why he should prop up the party any longer.

“He is deeply upset with the party’s promotion of gay marriage; it grates with his Catholicism”, the insider said.

In addition to his loan, the 60-year-old hedge fund manager has also donated around £4 million to the party.

Biggest donors

Daily Mail columnist, Sebastian Shakespeare, says Hintze’s announcement comes “just as the party needs a fortune” to bankroll the 2015 General Election.

His net loans and donations reportedly make him one of the biggest donors to the Conservative party.

Hintze heads up a fund worth £12.6 billion and has in the past also given senior Tory ministers individual donations and gifts.

Allegiance

Hintze – worth over one billion pounds according to Forbes – is not the first donor to withdraw allegiance.

In November, The Daily Telegraph reported that Conservative donors were “flocking” to Ukip.

The biggest “defecting donor” according to the paper was Stuart Wheeler, who on previous occasions donated around £4 million to the Conservatives.

Defectors

Wheeler is now the Ukip treasurer and has reportedly given £300,000 to the party.

Other defectors include self-made tycoon, Paul Sykes, who backed the Tories under Margaret Thatcher and Michael Howard, but has given £1.5 million to Ukip.

The Daily Mail’s insider did not allude to which party Hintze may support instead of the Conservatives.

Tee! Hee!

Imagine being bumped off in hospital just so that **** ***** or ***** ******** can have their existence prolonged.

Much later than usual, I have just got round to obliterating the "organ donor" declaration in my Catholic diary. I had forgotten to do this until the realisation woke me from an unpleasant dream.

I remember that Pope John Paul II urged all Catholics to donate their organs to demonstrate their solidarity with the human race.

Round objects. (I am very fond of Mr Round: he and I are in constant agreement.)

Why do I object to "donating" my organs? Because organs have to be "harvested" (ugh!) while the "donor's" heart is still beating. Some unprincipled and ambitious quack may have pronounced the "donor" to be "brain-dead" (too many quotation marks here), but such patients have revived, and I have no trust in a profession which kills the unborn.

As to the idea of "solidarity", I cannot chose the beneficiaries of my corporeal largesse and there are too many people with whom I deny solidarity and whose lives I would not wish to prolong for even a fraction of a second. 

In fact, the whole idea of the "common good" sickens me. I desire, and work for, the good of the poor, the weak, and those who help them. The good of the unjustly rich, the perverter of morality or justice, the aborter and his supporter, and the corrupter of the young, I do not wish for, but hope with all the fervency of a Pol Pot (whose politics I do not share) for their ruin.

Rot 'em!

They won't get my vodka-pickled kidneys or liver.

Sacrilege Contemplated or "Lumme! He's at it again!"

Pope Francis continues to astound, and I am learning to love his endearing style as I loved my daughter's when she countered my admonishment, "That's really too bad," with, "No it's not. It's three bad!" 

Father Tracey, S.J. (R.I.P.), who instructed me in 1987, when talking about sacrilege, said that the sin would be committed by some one who assaulted a member of the Catholic clergy (I was happy to accept that) or indeed a heretic, or a pagan "cleric".

I was not so happy with that.

I have now reached the unhappy stage where I would very happily thump not a few Catholic clergy, were it not illegal to do so.