This Cramner chap is a strange one. I'll move past his sycophantic ravings about Thatcher (I don't quite get how venerating one person to that level of glory is consistent with being a Christian - but then I'm really not sure where this guy stands).
Anyhow, it seems to me he is guilty of, like a lot of right-wing Christians, of spotting the faults on the left without accepting the same happens on the right too. This article on a couple in Nottingham who can't adopt because they are Bible-believing Christians and hence have un-PC views on homosexuality makes me angry.
For a number of reasons. First that it has come to this, that perfectly good couples are persecuted for a belief they happen to air and be up front about, whereas gay couples can adopt and slander Christians. There is something up there. But doesn't the Bible teach us to expect persecution as Christians?
What also angers me is: The constant attribution of all the legislation and societal norms that have led to this situation to Labour. Really? It may have happened that Labour passed the bill, but I don't see the Tories running in to repeal it right now, particularly now they are in power. You can point me all you like to websites showing some prominent Tories voted against such legislation, but the fact is power corrupts, and I seriously doubt the Tories would have acted any different had they held power in that 13 year gap.
The other rather obvious fact is the PC brigade didn't suddenly start in 1997, and stop once Labour were voted out earlier on this year. It does seem funny to me that right after the election, Theresa May suddenly changed her public beliefs on homosexuality.
I'm not writing here in any way to post something necessarily constructive, that somehow the left is better. The left though, is just as full of sinners as the right is, and I think that's the point I'm at pains to make, a kind of point that it seems Cramner and a number of my right-wing friends would try and deny.
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