Posted on 05/25/2009 12:48:15 PM PDT by Schnucki
The Equality Bill currently going through Parliament is the latest and potentially most oppressive attempt to impose politically acceptable attitudes and drive out any that fall foul of these criteria. Since the attitudes being imposed constitute an ideological agenda to destroy Britain’s foundational ethical principles and replace them by a nihilistic values and lifestyle free-for-all, they represent a direct onslaught on the Judeo-Christian morality underpinning British society.
The most neuralgic of these issues is gay rights. This is because the tolerance of homosexuality that a liberal society should properly show has long been hijacked by an agenda which aims at destroying the very idea of normative sexuality altogether – and does so by smearing it as prejudice. The true liberal position, that it is right and just to tolerate behaviour that deviates from the norm as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else, is deemed to be rank prejudice on the grounds that homosexuality is not ‘deviancy’ but normal. ‘Normality’ is thus rendered incoherent and absurd and accordingly destroyed altogether. The agenda is therefore not liberal tolerance but illiberal coercion against mainstream moral values, on the basis that the very idea of having normative moral principles at all is an expression of bigotry. So anyone who speaks out against gay rights is immediately vilified as a ‘homophobe’ and treated as a social and professional pariah.
Most people have been intimidated into silence under this onslaught. ‘Society has changed – get over it’ is the uncompromising message which few now dare gainsay. It is certainly the motto of the Tory Cameroons. But the people who find themselves in acute difficulty with this are religious groups whose faith prevents them from accepting these new sexual and moral anti-norms.
There has been growing concern that Christians in particular are being unfairly targeted by
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Who is John Galt?
Forcing one to condone a filthy practice against one’s faith violates our natural, God given rights. Homo marriage isn't just law and deserves to protested at every opportunity.
“Rum, sodomy, and the lash” didn’t involve nuptial vows, it seems.
What an intelligent, wonderfully written article. Melanie Phillips is definitely very good at her job. She also wrote a book called “Londonistan” about the Islamification of England. I wonder if in fact a big war between the homosexualists and Islamists is coming. There’s no way these two groups can peacefully co-exist in the new United Kingdom.
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