Sex with teenage boys is an integral part of the homosexual culture that has emerged out of the entirely novel idea, not yet two generations old and post-dating our own humane changes in the law, that homosexuality is an identity, including a political identity. (Either everyone or everyone of one sex engages in homosexual acts in some societies, others literally have no word referring to it, many people go through adolescent homosexual phases, and most of those who identify as homosexual have had heterosexual experiences. So comparisons with sex, ethnicity or class are simply laughable.) Have you ever seen, for example, a television programme about homosexuality which did not feature it? It was central to Queer As Folk, and a major part of Clapham Junction, just for a start.
And that is what we are talking about: sex with teenage boys. Of course priests who do such things should be drummed out and locked up. But I don't see why they should be the only people who are, or who experience even mild disapproval for such behaviour.
Oh, well, I'd better get out my flak jacket. I have run up against the mighty homsexualist lobby again. I believe in the universal Welfare State, in the strong statutory and other (including trade union) protection of workers and consumers, in progressive taxation, in full employment, and in the partnership between a strong Parliament and strong local government. I want free eye and dental treatment for all. I am against PFIs and PPPs. I am in favour of a national network of free public transport. I would give everyone a tax-free income of half national median earnings. I would abolish non-domicle tax status. I am totally against the neoconservative war agenda. And much else besides.
But none of that matters. What matters is whether or not I submit to the directives of two political movements - homosexualism and radical feminism - which did not exist forty years ago and which have never had any large followings among the homosexually inclined, among women, or among anyone else. When will you see that dancing to these movements' tunes is the cover under which all manner of cutters, privatisers, union-busters and warmongers pretend to be on the Left, and so kill off the real Left as a political force? Or is that what you want?
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They're laying into Tom Wright over at the New Statesman. It doesn't matter that he's pro-worker and anti-war. All that matters is that he's pro-life and pro-family, and has the audacity to be a bishop who really does believe in God.
ReplyDeleteI've just been over there, to ask them why they are all so nostalgic for the Thatcher years.
ReplyDeleteAppointing bishops of culturally conservative ritualised agnosticism not only reflected her own religious beliefs perfectly, but made any really robust theological critique of economics or politics impossible.
Academic cod-Marxism had to fill the gap. And it couldn't, as it still can't, and as it will never be able to.