Can you imagine what the reaction would have been had it been
Ahmadinejad who had made the statement about employing homosexuals? The
reactions of the press on this issue has been staggering in its
hypocrisy,
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All the best,
John
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 14:10:17 +0000 "Lindsay, John M"
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> The spectre of "Natural Law" is haunting Europe.
>
> An 82 year old celibate ex-Hilter Youth gave a speech on natural law
> and sent the British Government into a spin.
>
>
> Google grep Pope Harman for hits on the media show.
>
> It struck me the importance given in headlines to concept "natural
> law", and as I was doing a gig on The Nature of Research (Not my
> choice of title), it seems an interesting case.
>
>
> What proportions of enthusiams C&Crs give to trades union activism,
> subject specialism, teaching obligations and e-very-thing probably
> change from time of day to day of week, but it seems to me that
> making sure Catholic Workers and Muslim Workers, lgbtq history month
> enthusaists, students of all persuasions and none, all have an
> opportunity to unite, learn how to unite, and learn how to struggle
> against the cuts in wages, pension rights, and all the rest which
> will follow if we don't learn how to fight, have a good chance for a
> bit of practice.
>
>
> I'd suggest letters and motions to members of Parliament calling for
> the invitation to a state visit to be withdrawn.
>
> The speaker has interfered in a British General Election in order
> either to make lgbtq etc people a political punchbag or to distract
> attention from reports of the consequence of celibacy and natural law.
>
>
> Simply working out the arguments is a good case of practice in logic,
> philosophy, history, comparative linguistics, and of course politics.
>
> The speaker is also a Head of State, and it is on that basis that he
> has been invited to a state visit. Political interventions into a
> general election by a foreign head of state are completely
> unacceptable, unless of course I agree with them
>
>
> Can you imagine if the head of state of Iran were on a state visit to
> Britain and he made a speech about British Trident and nuclear
> re-armament!
>
> Capital and class, heterogeneous logics and natural law, you have
> nothing to lose but your......
>
> heterodoxologies
>
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