I'm in two minds about this, believing the fruit loop brigade shouldn't be encouraged; not even for the entertainment of the sane. Alas, I also pay taxes and hold a TV licence, since the BBC gives this particular pudding airtime I'm going to have my say anyway and against my less bad judgement.
This awful woman already has had far more than her allotted fifteen minutes, thanks mainly to the perch she crafted for herself within the Lawyers' Christian Fellowship as that body's Public Policy Director.
When an organisation pays someone to be its Public Policy Director it abandons all pretence of being anything other a Lobbyist.
She has taken what might once legitimately have been a safe haven of fellowship for people who are both lawyers and christians and turned it into a vehicle for her crusade against encroaching secularisation of civil society and the privatisation of religion.
In the run in to christmas (which I hate, anyway) the media are doing their usual, and therefore now hackneyed, annual Meaning of Christmas routine. In that context The Talking Head muscled in yesterday to proclaim her familiar catalogue of grievance against the march of rationality.
Her peroration (and I am paraphrasing as no transcript appears to be available) went something like: "Historically where there's been christianity people have been free to live along side one another."
Wow. What a mind!
Capable of blanking out, in no particular order (and this list is just a few headline grabbers and by no means exhaustive): Nazi Europe, The Reconquista, sundry expulsions of Jewish populations (Iberian Peninsula, 1492/3; France, 1182; England, 1290 etc), Northern Ireland, The Huguenots, the Templars, USA pre-emancipation, USA post-emancipation, Indigenous Australians.
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