The Revolution eats one of its own Midwives
Posted on February 20, 2016
Filed under Opinion
“I do not often find myself in sympathy with gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell. Indeed, I still remember as a teenager being delighted and relieved at his defeat in the 1983 Bermondsey by-election. It symbolized so well how the new Left, with its preoccupation with gay rights, was of marginal interest to the poor and the working class. Still, it is hard not to have some sneaking admiration for a man who has tried to arrest Robert Mugabe not once but twice.
Yet this veteran human rights campaigner now finds himself on the receiving end of the latest campus malice and silliness …”
– At First Things, Dr Carl Trueman comments on one of last week’s big stories in the UK.
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The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…