“Like George Monbiot, Adolf Hitler, Ed Balls, Mad Mahmoud Afterdinnerjacket and Tony Benn, Harris has the mad, revolving eyes of the political nutter”
Back in the 1960s, in a galaxy that seems far, far away, the government passed a couple of laws which at the time were applauded by most intelligent people, but who would have been appalled at how they turned out in practice.
In the sixties, most of us thought that it was a good idea to protect a handful of unfortunate women from the perils of backstreet abortionists.
Most of us also thought that it was uncivilised for those unhappy men, born with mixed-up chromosomes which led them to want to commit sex acts with other men, should suffer persecution, blackmail or jail.
But if we had realised that the legalisation of abortion would lead to more than 6 million unborn children being torn from inside would-be mothers, I think the law would have been much more strictly drawn.
And if we’d realised that liberating homosexuals from persecution wouldn’t just put right a wrong, but would lead to aggressive political activity to proselytise the homosexual lifestyle as equal to and as worthy as heterosexual ways; if we’d been told that weak and cowardly politicians would be intimidated into allowing homosexuals to adopt children, I think we might not have been so keen on the reform.
Isn’t it ridiculous that politically correct local authorities can force firemen into supporting Gay Pride marches, or have their careers trashed if they refuse to comply? It is uncivilised and against natural justice for councils to try and force fine, upstanding foster parents to sign up to the support of movements which glorify the homosexual lifestyle. This recently led to a much loved foster child being forced back to the council children’s home because the foster parents wouldn’t be forced into saying that homosexuality was a good thing.
Temerity
We now live in a society where if people have the temerity to say that they don’t think the homosexual lifestyle is a positive good, then they are accused of homophobia, and often forced out of public sector jobs.
As far as the abortion laws are concerned, there is much that can be done. There seems no reason why Britain should allow abortions to take place up to 24 weeks from conception, when no other European nations allows this to happen past 12 weeks.
Education can help to. When the abortion law reform was first mooted, I for one never realised exactly what was involved. I just assumed that the women took some kind of pill and it was all over. I didn’t realise that it involved a traumatic, actual birth experience. Those who used to argue about the rights of the unborn child were often not taken seriously because there was no effective way of demonstrating their point. Now we have the high tech scans of the womb to show exactly how the baby has developed. Only harsh, cold, bigoted socialists like neo-Labour Health Minister “Red” Dawn Primarolo argue that this isn’t a perfectly formed little human, and that the mother’s right to choose must take precedence over the baby’s right to live. Charles Moore was spot on with his latest column in the Daily Telegraph when he said now people look back 200 hundred years and are outraged by slavery. Future generations will think the same thing about our attitude to abortion, Moore said.
Abortion production line
Another awful aspect of the abortion production line is the dehumanising impact it must have on those who actually do the operations. If abortions were limited to just a few, where the necessity was clear, and the awful consequences fully understood, the doctors and nurses involved might not be too affected. But what kind of people are they who do this all the time? Surely they must become sickened by the process, and the implications of what they are doing, which often now means virtually contraception with a knife.
Another devil to emerge from this recent debate is the nasty and arrogant Liberal Democrat MP Dr “Death” Evan Harris. He was all over the media last week spreading his noxious views and trying to trash some honest women, who thought that perhaps there might be something wrong with our abortion laws if almost 200,000 are taking place every year.
I took some comfort from the fact that when Harris appeared on BBC TV’s NewsNight (this was my first sighting of the man) he had been given (presumably by some superior being) the appearance of the lying charlatan. Like George Monbiot, Adolf Hitler, Ed Balls, Mad Mahmoud Afterdinnerjacket and Tony Benn, Harris has the revolving eyes of the political nutter. Anyone listening to the poison being spread by Harris will instantly know it is garbage by watching his swivel eyes.
Don’t ask, don’t tell
There is not much that can be done to reform the laws which allow homosexuality between consenting adults, nor would anyone want to change this. But attitudes surely have to be changed. Like former President Bill Clinton’s idea that personnel in the military “shouldn’t ask or tell” when the issue of homosexuality was raised. That has to be the bottom line. One person’s sexuality surely is of no interest to anyone else. It is of no significance outside of the bedroom. If people want to be homosexuals, and they restrict it to activity behind closed doors, nobody will object. It is the aggressive attempt to indoctrinate the rest of us into accepting the homosexual lifestyle as equal and worthwhile that is objectionable.
We need some national politicians to take a principled stand on this, and as I write this, I realise of course that it is not going to happen.
Neil Winton – November 1, 2007
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