Canon of St Paul's: church cannot answer peaceful protest with violence

In his first interview since his resignation, the Reverend Giles Fraser says he was unable to reconcile his conscience with the breakup of the Occupy London camp.

The canon chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, the Reverend Giles Fraser, spoke on Thursday about his reasons for resigning over the cathedral's stance towards the protest camp which has been established over the past two weeks.

"I cannot support using violence to ask people to clear off the land," Fraser told the Guardian. "It is not about my sympathies or what I believe about the camp. I support the right to protest and in a perfect world we could have negotiated. But our legal advice was that this would have implied consent." Full story @ the Guardian.