What Tim Farron does or does not believe about the sinfulness of homosexual acts has nothing whatever to do with public policy.
For example, a belief in that sinfulness was not necessary in order to have opposed same-sex civil marriage.
Nor need such a belief necessarily have issued in such an opposition.
Increasingly characteristic tabloid stuff from Channel 4 News. It is not what it once was.
Like Newsnight, which last night managed to report both on Farron and on Jeremy Corbyn, yet without going to the trouble of interviewing either of them.
""When asked recently by the Liberal Democrat Lesbian and Gay Rights group about these comments, he replied: “For all minorities in the UK – equalities legislation passed in the last 10 to 20 years has been a huge step forwards.
ReplyDeleteWhilst I am and will remain a committed Christian, I take the same approach as Charles Kennedy did – I hold my faith firmly but impose it on no one.”
Poor Farron discovers that you can't be a leftist and a Christian (one or the other, but not both etc).
He clearly didn't choose Christianity.
Bless.
DeleteI don't like this kind of test, but Cameron ("Chilterns," etc; thinks that the message of Easter is a good family lunch; the Prime Minister who gave us SSM), Farage (all over the place), Farron (this), Burnham (voted against lesbian adoption): take your pick.
Farage holds to the libertarian position and, as such UKIP's manifesto was the only one that pledged to make Christians exempt from equalities legislation.
ReplyDeleteThe only pro Christian party in Britain, then.
However, I agree with Farage's original view-expressed on Trevor Phillips documentary-that Labour's equalities laws should in fact be scrapped altogether.
If we had a Rightwing party in Parliament instead of three Marxist parties, it would be.
Bless.
DeleteThe wonder is that you managed even one seat. Occupied by a man who disagrees with his latest party about absolutely everything. Just as he disagreed with his last party about absolutely everything.
Anyone who didn't vote UKIP is directly responsible for and supports the persecution of Christian bakeries, civil registrars, foster parents and B&B owners for holding Christian beliefs about this issue.
ReplyDeleteUKIP's was the only manifesto to include a "conscience clause" to make Christians exempt from all equalities legislation.
If you didn't vote for them, you are responsible for every Christian who loses their job or their foster children purely for being Christian, under our Marxist Equality Act.
Bless.
DeleteThe wonder is that you managed even one seat. Occupied by a man who disagrees with his latest party about absolutely everything. Just as he disagreed with his last party about absolutely everything.