Cardiff compromise
Quakers let Meeting House to euthanasia advocacy organisation
Friends in Cardiff have supported a compromise in a controversy over the use of their Meeting house.
Philip Nitschke, a doctor who heads the group Exit International, had planned to use an event at Cardiff Meeting House to demonstrate his new ‘deliverance’ machine. It is reported to involve a laptop connected to a syringe.
Peter Collins, a canon at Cardiff’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, was one of several Welsh church leaders to express concern. ‘I think the decision by the Quakers to allow this event to take place is disappointing,’ he said.
In response, Cardiff Meeting said that they would allow the event to go ahead as long as it did not include any apparatus for ending life. ‘Allowing a commercial letting does not imply that we agree with the views of the organisation,’ they explained.
