'People of faith have a right to hold high office'

For sure. But such dangers are not limited to people of faith. All kinds of dubious political figures in the past have managed to command widespread support, some of them far worse than Blair and in no way people of faith. Hitler and Stalin spring immediately to mind.

The problem of course lies ultimately at the feet of stupid, gullible, and easily fooled elements amongst electorates which tend to form quite large voting blocs. Denying power to the wholly unsuitable requires constant efforts of persuasion directed at these groups, made all the more difficult by the intellectually challenged nature of some of them who in consequence tend to be more prone to emoting than actual thinking.

Under these circumstances, enlightened persuasion against unsuitable people will not always be successful, as the recent electoral successes of Boris Johnson so clearly demonstrate.

This is the heavy burden and price we have to pay for democracy, which in spite of this is the least bad system we can imagine. When people vote for crooks, charlatans, liars, sociopaths, fools, or misguided people we all have to suffer the consequences until people turn against them. That is the price of democracy.

No Primeminister in modern times has done more for gay people than Tony Blair, and that is an absolute fact.

Legislated and created Civil Partnerships, making same sex partners legal and equal in law to traditional marriages, thereby removing hurdles and barriers in such areas as Wills, Inheritence, Pensions and rights after death etc.

Equalised the Age Of Consent making it the same for everyone

What Thatcher did was unforgivable, Section 28 or "Clause 28" actually forbid schools or teachers to teach students about homosexuality, it was a law which basically swept homosexuality under the carpet, pretended that gay people did not exist.

When you consider the numbers of young men who committed suicide because they felt isolated and unable to be who they were, Thatchers Section 28 was evil, nasty and cruel.

Maybe this was the reason:

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I do recall the intimate love affair he had with Bush Jnr, and how his flock were in bed with the American Hawks.  Blair the filthy pervert.  It all makes sense now lol.

Well that's possibly one reason why so many bigots hate him.

That was Bush, you really don't need to repeatedly expose your ignorance, it was already obvious.

__"George Bush has claimed he was on a mission from God when he launched the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a senior Palestinian politician in an interview to be broadcast by the BBC later this month.