Kirk Shows the Bawdy Bard Some Forgiveness

Daily MailJanuary 23, 2006

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HIS devotion to drink and the lassies is famed almost as much as his poetry. But Robert Burns may finally be earning forgiveness from the Kirk.

Growing numbers of Church of Scotland congregations will celebrate the Bard's birthday on January 25, after more than 200 years of shunning him because of his bawdiness.

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Kirk Shows the Bawdy Bard Some Forgiveness

Burns, who fathered seven illegitimate ch...

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