There are some pretty intensely homophobic Anglicans; also some who
consider the vagaries of parliamentary democracy a sinful deviation
from the certainties of God's law - actually, no, that's the SWP...
The ones "full of passionate intensity" - e.g. teenage nihilists with
a burning yen to blow things and people up - really belong in a
religious/political category all of their own. It's true they'd feel
out of place in the "established" church. Maybe we should take the
Prince of Wales up on his offer to be "protector of faiths" and
establish a network of mosques under the symbolic authority of the
crown (can one have a female Cailiff? I imagine not).
Incidentally, yet another group of young men were recently discovered
hoarding explosive materials and plotting acts of gruesome
destruction. They were in the BNP (our pathetic homegrown nazis). As
the leninist blogger "bat" rather wittily put it: I blame the white
community for not doing enough to stand up to the extremists in their
midst.
Jimmy Carr and Jonathon Ross are popular entertainers, mainstream
enough to be on the BBC of a Friday evening. Their opinions don't
matter in themselves (and were expressed in a jocular fashion,
instantly deniable), but are symptomatic. All this flap about hygiene
- first personal, then moral, then social - inevitably stirs up
eugenicist daydreams in its wake.
Dominic
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