Given that M Ps were to be given a free vote on the issue, correctly in my view, there could be no question that this would set party policy on the topic — and it is doubtful whether this could ever be
legitimate as this form of exercise is not one that appears in the rules as part of the policy making process as far as I can see.
Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter
of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light
of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another
form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be
as pleasing to God
as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may
exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters
of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction
of public schools in which the youth
of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against
legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion
of the State to the exclusion
of all other
forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»