The political left has long been the champion of rights, equality and social justice. They claim, through positive discrimination, idealism and draconian legislation, that they are the protectors of all who may be victims. A recent episode of Will & Grace showed the main characters voting not on political issues, but on ethnicity, religion or sexuality. I love Will & Grace and was glad to see that by pursuing this method of political decision making they ended up supporting a racist Jewish candidate and a nationalist and racist gay candidate.
And yet the left continually fails to defend those that it says it will. Galloway and Livingstone’s friendship of Islamic terrorists is a case in point. The Islamofacists of this world do not believe in defending the rights of Lesbians, Gays, Bi- and Trans-sexuals (LGBT), in fact they consider them worse infidels than the straight amongst us. The left’s arguments have long failed to live up to scrutiny, but now they’re denying the truth amongst their own, and in the Respect party.
Lesbian and Gay rights were deliberately omitted from the Respect manifesto and their alliance with right-wing Islamic groups is the cause.
Unfortunately it was not clear under Thatcher that the Conservative party was to become the party of individual freedom and choice. We now stand, as we should always have done, strongly in favour of individual rights. We can do this, because of our heritage, with the clear non-discriminatory benefit of not supporting positive discrimination which makes enemies on both sides of the argument. We can do this, too, from an ideological point of view. And we can do this from a moral point of view.
Thanks to J0nz for bringing the item to my attention and thanks to Lenin’s Tomb for his balanced views and details on the subject.
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