1979 saw Ian Paisley elected to the European Parliament, another platform for
his political and religious dogma.
Permit me to say how much I...
Mr. Paisley, I now exclude you from this house.
I've never tried to go out and offend Catholics.
I have been an opponent of the teachings of the Church of Rome.
I am in the historic succession of the Reformers.
I mean, one wee lady wrote into the press and said, I wrote the Confession of Faith
and called the Pope the Antichrist.
I mean, I was far from the first person who accepted the fact that the Church of
Rome was a false church, and therefore was the church as depicted in the 17th chapter
of the book of Revelation.
Now that is historic Protestantism.
And I mean, I think I've proved in my political life, by my advocacy of people
who are Roman Catholics in their times of trouble, that I have given them the best
possible representation they ever had.