Saturday, January 06, 2007

Political Correctness is the New Bigotry

A Student body has been refused funding by the Students' Union on the grounds that it breaches human rights. The body in question is the Christian Union. Its meetings are open to all but it has an understandable qualification that to become an officer in the Union you should sign a declaration that you believe in God, the virgin birth, and other aspects crucial to the Christian belief. This says the Students' Union, is a breach of Human Rights. Presumably they say a Buddhist or a Jew or a follower of Islam should be allowed to lead a Christian Union.
BOLLOCKS!
Ask a Muslim if he would like a Christian to be an Imam. Ask a Jew his views on a Sikh being the local Rabbi.
Political correctness has been taken to the extreme and beyond.
Dear Mr Blair,
I am instituting legal proceedings because I was excluded from participating and voting in a Commons debate. I know I was not elected to the House of Commons but there was no one in the House who could air my views because all the parties who stood in my constituency were of different political persuasions to me. I therefore claim the right to air my own independent views directly in the chamber.
Should you continue to refuse my request I will take legal action under the Human Rights Act. If, as expected, my case is thrown out by the courts I will appeal to higher courts. And when the Appeal Court refuses my action I will demand that the case be heard not by the Law Lords (after all they have a vested interest being in the House of Lords) but directly by the European Court of Human Rights.
The European Court will have to find in my favour on the grounds that everyone has an equal right to be heard. Everyone has a right to hold and express their views.
Or have they?
Once again . . .
BOLLOCKS!!!!!

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