Tom Elliott facing action over Ronan Kerr funeral

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Date: Monday, 2011-06-06, 11:55 PM | Message # 1

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Tom Elliott facing action over Ronan Kerr funeral
Senior Orangemen are due to discuss if disciplinary action should be taken against the UUP leader Tom Elliott for attending the funeral of Ronan Kerr.

The rules of the Orange Order prohibit members from attending Catholic masses.

But Mr Elliott and his party colleague Danny Kennedy attended the funeral of Constable Kerr in Beragh in April.

Tom Elliott is a former County Grand Master of Fermanagh.Mr Kennedy is a member of a lodge in County Armagh.

At the time a spokesman for the Grand Lodge offered "sincere sympathy" to the Kerr family and said it was important they knew they had widespread support throughout the community.

But at least one letter of complaint has been forwarded to Grand Lodge Officers from a lodge in Belfast.

It will be discussed by the Grand Lodge's governing body, the Central Committee, on Friday ahead of the next meeting of the full Grand Lodge on 15 June.

A source said he would be surprised if the letter did not go before the Grand Lodge, but what would happen in that event is less clear.

A spokesman for the Grand Lodge said: "The internal business of Grand Lodge is a private matter."

However, Tom Haire, County Grand Master of Belfast said the letter had been passed on for consideration.

When contacted by the BBC, Tom Elliot and Danny Kennedy refused to comment.

A former Ulster Unionist leader and Orangeman David Trimble attended a funeral mass in Donegal for some of the victims of the Omagh bomb in 1998 without any action being taken.

Away from the public gaze it is known that some members do attend the funerals of Catholics without censure.

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This has the protential to be an out and out propaganda disaster for the Orange Order.

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Date: Friday, 2011-06-10, 8:05 PM | Message # 2

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Lot of people see no harm in going to a Mass. But then do they really know anything about it, and if they did would it still not faze them. We have got to a situation where if someone has a belief and that belief clashes with the 'social graces' they are the ones who are wrong. It use to be those who took a stand on a principle were respected and even admired for making a stand. However, nowdays they have turned that on its head and those who make a stand are wrong and treated like lepers.

So I suppose we have to say then that Latimer and Ridley, and a many others got it wrong.

Ulster Protestants consider themselves to be a separate nation. This nation they call Ulster

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Date: Sunday, 2011-06-12, 10:44 PM | Message # 3

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Have to agree, although this here particular case should never have been allowed to be made public, who ever leaked it to the press is set out to damage the Orange Order.

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Have to agree, although this here particular case should never have been allowed to be made public, who ever leaked it to the press is set out to damage the Orange Order.

Tom Elliott facing action over Ronan Kerr funeral

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