Richard Dawkins, the author of The God Delusion, has attacked the dismissal of a prominent Scottish football official and four referees over an email containing a joke about the Pope.
The Scottish Football Association fired Hugh Dallas, its director of referee development, and four other employees, over the circulation of an email containing a joke linking the Pope and clerical child abuse, sent from Mr Dallas’s SFA email address.
The decision to sack Mr Dallas followed a call for his dismissal from the head of the Scottish Catholic Media Office, Peter Kearney, but also following controversy over a refereeing decision at Tannadice Park stadium, the home of Dundee United Football Club.
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