It is time for us to speak honestly, not brutally or bluntly, to everybody in Northern Ireland, to ourselves and to everyone involved in politics, North and South. It is surely time for those who wish to lead the majority community in Northern Ireland – there are now two political parties in contention for this role – into institutions which have met with popular consent across the political divide to repudiate sectarian language, whether it is used within the sphere of politics or that of the church. There cannot be people in politics who feel they can utter the language of consent, agreement and tolerance in political institutions but who then donning a religious cloak, use language, phraseology and terminology about other religions which is grossly offensive and repudiated by the vast majority of the Protestant churches. It is not an attack on anyone to say it is time we moved on from the position where sectarian language is still being used and where people can move from one position to another.