Dear All
When a Church of Scotalnd minister heckled
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn calling him a “terrorist sympathiser”, he got his
15 minutes of fame in this general election. Now, that the 15 minutes is up,
you wonder if he will think that the effort was worth it, given that he now has
been suspended by the kirk. Once people got to digging into the background of
the Reverend Richard Cameron, they later found that he allegedly has posted a
series of racist and homophobic messages on social media.
A number of Tweets posted by Rev Cameron in
which he decried homosexuals as “celebrating perversion,” suggested HIV was the
result of a “lack of stigma” around gay sex and called Muslims “Barbarians”
were uncovered following the incident. So, the Kirk has in the interests of the
institution suspended him. In fact suspending people is now considered a ‘device’
to kill stories, much used in politics.
A spokeswoman for the Church of Scotland
said:
“In accordance with our procedures Rev
Richard Cameron has been administratively suspended. This is to allow us to
carry out an enquiry in relation to the incident which took place earlier this
week and the subsequent complaints about his social media use.”
As to the heckling, ‘let him who is
without sin cast the first stone’, which in this case, hasn’t worked out
for the Rev, he looks like he has chuckled enough stones to full a quarry. In
the aftermath of the Corbyn incident, Scotstoun Primary School said Rev Cameron
would “no longer be engaged” with the school as chaplain. Something which I am
sure he will regret in the fullness of time.
Head teacher Gill McKay wrote to parents:
“You may be aware of some social media
posts currently circulating over the last 24 hours involving our school
chaplain Rev Richard Cameron and I wanted to write and inform you that he will
no longer be engaged with Scotstoun Primary School.”
I supposed in doing his heckling, the Rev
Cameron didn’t think he had anything to lose, now I suspect he will feel
different. One thing, I always preached to activists is this, if you come
across someone’s else’s event, don’t interrupt it, good manners and free speech
and the right to a fair election apply. If you want to heckle then I recommend
going to the count when the results are read out.
This week has been a torrid week for the
Labour Party, not just for Jeremy Corbyn but also for their polling especially
in Scotland. Prof Curtice says it is in the 20% bracket. In order for Labour to
win the election for a majority government, they need to win Scottish seats.
One thing which cannot be measured is the emotional issue when it comes to
voting, either way; the mountain that the Labour Party has to climb is pretty
steep.
As for the Rev Cameron, Jeremy Corbyn will
probably never remember his name in a few days; however the Rev will remember
Jeremy Corbyn for a lot longer as he sweats out his suspension. Rev Cameron
should have been wiser, the Humanist Society flagged up a complaint against his
social media usage nine months ago, the Presbytery of Glasgow said they had
given “advice” to the reverend over his future behaviour online, and perhaps
that should be extended to non social media.
Finally, although there is a lot of hate,
anger and political lead flying about the shop, I thought I would end the week
on a funny, here is my latest video clip which I have created using motion
graphics. I hope you enjoy it, in politics you have to get a laugh somewhere or
you end up sour. And we don’t want that to happen or we could all end up like
Rev Cameron!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
This is probably going to get a lot worse before it gets better, I've got a bad feeling about all of this.
ReplyDeleteHe should be defrocked. An absolute disgrace. Ot, how long before Freeman resigns before she becomes too toxic for the SNP?
ReplyDelete[1/3] I’ll add my voice to the chorus welcoming your return, and am glad your health is improving.
ReplyDeleteYou seem to be divorcing John 8:7 (‘He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.’) from its context, that episode closing with Jesus sternly instructing the adulteress, ‘Go, and now sin no more’ (John 8:11). He was not counselling ‘Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law’ (the notorious Aleister Crowley’s instruction from The Book of the Law): adultery (7th commandment, Exod. 20:14) remains a sin in Christianity, albeit not one to be punished with the death demanded by OT’s Deut. 22:22. Christians are duty-bound to condemn sin (Gal. 6:1, Jas. 5:19–20); just not execute people for some.
And like it or not, homosexuality also remains a sin (Rom. 1:27, 1 Cor. 6:9), but again one no longer requiring the death stipulated by OT’s Lev. 20:13. That the CofS suspended the reverend simply evinces that it is no longer Christian, only the (dying) Church of the SJW—also true of most Protestant Churches, at least in Britain. (Practicing Prods should seriously consider that we got it wrong, and it’s time to return to Rome.)
And, wrt LGBT+, there are many unapologetic gays (e.g. Douglas Murray) increasingly unhappy with the excesses of today’s LGBT activists: from drag queens telling stories to pre-schoolers, through prepubescent boys being put on MtF ‘gender-reassignment’ tracks, to LGBT persecution of Christians. As Murray puts it (on the interview circuit promoting his latest book), gay/women’s/whatevs rights had:
‘… been steadily accumulated throughout the twentieth century. They too appeared to be arriving at some sort of settlement. Then just as the train appeared to be reaching its desired destination it suddenly picked up steam and went crashing off down the tracks and into the distance. What had been barely disputed until yesterday became a cause to destroy someone’s life today. Whole careers were scattered and strewn as the train careered along its path.’
(Murray, Douglas. The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity. Bloomsbury, 2019. 5–6.)
A 2016 Pew Research study found Christians to be the most persecuted religion (targeted in 144 countries to the Muslims’ 142). A report this year commissioned by our FCO found ‘Christian persecution “at near genocide levels”’ in certain parts. And in our country, LGBT activists employ ‘lawfare’ to harass Christians—here is an example story:
Christian preacher John Craven held ‘without food or water’. BBC, 2014.
‘Mr Craven, who has regularly preached in Manchester city centre for seven years, was approached by the boys while he was preaching about salvation.
He said the teenagers asked him what he thought of gays, which he had answered by quoting from the Bible’s teachings on the subject, before adding that “whilst God hates sin, He loves the sinner”.
He said the pair then began to kiss in front of him and act out sexual acts.
The boys then reported Mr Craven to a nearby mounted police constable, who placed him under arrest for “public order offences”.’
Note: the LGBT activists approached him; they questioned him on a topic they chose; and when they got the answers they wanted, they called up the State’s coercive arm.
Nought but State-backed agent provocateurs.
And whether it’s bakers in Belfast or Colorado, or B&B-owners in Cornwall, it’s only the Christians getting it in the neck—never Muslims.
[2/3] Condemn the reverend’s boorishness, fine. But his criticisms are valid, if sometimes indelicately expressed—his tweets as breathlessly reported by the BBC from their fainting couch, are perfectly reasonable as starting points for discussion. He’s not calling for violence to be directed at anyone, he—unlike LGBT fanatics—is not trying to destroy anyone’s life; he’s just expressing opinions. We used to be allowed to do that in this country. And anyone disagreeing should either ignore him or offer rebuttal.
ReplyDeleteAs for his heckling Corbyn over terrorism, specifically Hamas… never understood some people’s obsession with Israel and the Joooz, whether obsessively hating or loving on the country. ‘Faraway country’ and all that (if still ongoing, connections between Irish republican and Palestinian terror groups behoves some cooperation between our countries’ security forces). However, where Corbyn—and McDonnell, Abbott and Livingston—does merit unreserved condemnation is documented associations with the IRA.
After Irish republicans’ 2,126 (and counting) murders of men, women, pregnant women, children, infants, elderly—dogs, horses (you name it, they killed it), bombs often with no or inadequate warnings, torture, thousands left crippled: any degree of support for Irish republican terrorists should place someone entirely beyond the Pale, and it is the Labour Party’s shame that the party boasting the best NI Secretary in Ulster’s history—Roy Mason (1976–79)—should now not only harbour so many openly sympathetic to the murderers of working class British men, women and children, but allow one to be leader and others to reach its uppermost echelons. There are yet some of us who have not forgotten our honoured dead, such as the three Royal Highland Fusiliers shot in the back on a Belfast hillside in 1971: John McCaig, 17; his brother, Joseph, 18; and Dougald McCaughey, 23.
Likewise, it is to the shame of the Conservatives that they negotiated with the IRA and agreed a one-sided ‘peace’ that freed convicted terrorists, promised OTR terrorists they would not be prosecuted, while persecuting and prosecuting elderly ex-soldiers for doing a hazardous duty in difficult and confusing circumstances.
And here is my real point for this lengthy missive. The problem is not just Labour IRA-sympathisers and Conservative IRA-collaborators, but that increasing numbers all over our Kingdom are losing the will to maintain our 400 year old Union. But we have rarely benefited by giving any country independence, starting with the American colonies in 1783: at best they drift away, depriving us of their resources; at worst they continue to be hostile but now elevated from a troublesome region that we can stamp on to a sovereign power we are bound by international law to respect. America? We were in a virtual Cold War with them until the end of the 19th Century, nor did the ‘Special Relationship’ prevent them stabbing us in the back at Suez, their courts sheltering IRA terrorists, and now they’re harbouring a fugitive who mowed down one of our fellow Britons on our roads. Canada was letting us down as far back as 1922 (Chanak Crisis). And Southern Ireland never miss an opportunity to piss on our chips (’twas ever thus—Irish were raiding the Romano-British coast even before the Romans left).
[3/3] It’s about honouring generations of struggle and sacrifice for our islands—but also hiving off more territory will only weaken us further while creating yet more hostile neighbours and reviving long-buried enmities. To prevent that, it’s past time that Unionist politics were brought to the forefront of the British political scene.
ReplyDeleteWe should make it clear that we will not surrender any more British territory.
Northern Ireland is ours—purchased with the blood of our dead, as they purchased our loyalty with the blood of theirs.
The Falklands are ours. Gibraltar is ours. Jersey is ours. Guernsey, ours. Wales, Scotland, England, Suffolk, Sussex and Fife, Antrim and Monmouthshire, Liverpool, Canterbury, Kirkwall, Londonderry, Swansea, the Fountain, Mill Street—all ours.
‘NOT ONE SQUARE INCH!’ should be our slogan (riffing off Stalin’s Order 227 of 1942).
The DUP seem the party most consistently committed to both Brexit and our British Union—and they have some pretty good members deserving of wider renown; e.g. here is East Antrim MP Sammy Wilson speaking at a Leave Means Leave rally.
A briefly interesting moment was Nigel Farage’s visit last year to a DUP fundraiser, causing some fevered speculation. And now Labour stalwart Kate Hoey has declared she intends voting DUP.
So… how about the DUP going national? Wouldn’t they have a shot, and present us with a real alternative to out-of-touch, disintegrating mainstream parties, and amateur-hour fringe ones? And they would have a test run with the coming devolved election in 2021 (assuming no further GEs in meantime)—plus, with the ethnic and historical connections between NI and Scotland along with the ‘Ulsterisation of Scottish Politics’, a DUP going national could do well in Scotland at least, strengthening their appearing a serious contender for No.10.
As I’ve observed before, the political divide is no longer Left v. Right but ‘Somewheres’ v. ‘Anywheres’; those valuing community, ancestors, tradition and nation, regarding Society as ‘a contract … a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.’ (Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. 1790. Cambridge University Press, 2013. 143–4.)—versus those who calculate only in short-term political or financial gain, caring little for either heritage or legacy; globalists versus nationalists (the latter not to be confused with the petty-nationalisms of Scottish, English, Welsh, Cornish, etc. separatists). And the DUP seem far more of a ‘Somewhere’ party than the ‘Anywheres’ of the political mainstream.