Sunday, May 07, 2006
Ruth Kelly, Opus Dei and Gay Rights
Caroline Spelman is now shadowing Ruth Kelly at the Department of Local Government and Communities. Part of Kelly's brief is 'equality issues'. One thing Spelman might like to highlight is the conflict between Kelly's membership of Opus Dei and the government's support for gay rights. Kelly is privately against civil partnerships for gay people. Let's draw out her real views publicly.
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Interesting, in her new role "the common law of predetermination" Rules OK
Surely, Ms Kelly is proof that collective responsibility does still exist: whatever her private views she abides by the collective decision.
Is she having an exorcism carried out in her office? Do the Catholic Church do carpet cleaning?
Ruth Kelly isn't a member of Opus Dei. Under their terms, as a woman, she isn't allowed to be.
Frankly, if we're talking about dodgy organisations with homophobic leanings, I don't think a member of the Conservative Party is in a position to carp.
well these cults do attract some rather rum coves. Scientology being the ultimate truth blocker...
Joan of Arc's record
Her preferred method of answering the conflict between voting presumably against her beliefs and with her government, or following her faith and defying her whip [the party one] on 'gay issues' has been to absent herself from the vote...
Methinks she will have to tighten that cilice and lead from the front...
She's terrible but the Tories hardly have a brilliany gay right record.
In fact someone said to me the other day that they couldn't understand why anyone young or gay would ever vote Tory!!!
I don't think we should persecute people for their religious views, Iain. As long as she doesn't make her private views overrule her brief, that's okay in my book.
I support same-sex marriage, btw, not just partnerships.
Anyone who thinks that the Tory Party is not the natural home for gay people should pay a visit to CCHQ some time.
This is very unfair. Ruth Kelly does have a private personal faith, and this entails having a certain position on sexual activity outside marriage, but when has she ever allowed this to influence the conduct of her public office?
The young and the gay pay taxes. Seems perfectly clear to me why they would vote Conservative.
As James has shown this is a point where the Tories could usefully display their modernist credentials. To be fair it is about 30 years since Gay rights has been a genuinely rasical idea.
For a fuller discussion on this visit
Reshuffle error? Can Ruth Kelly really represent the gay community?
at PinkNews
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