A Left-wing council, a pro-life group and a blatant misuse of power
by Caroline Farrow, The Conservative Woman:
In an absolute mockery of democracy, Labour-controlled Ealing Council in west London has voted to impose Public Space Protection Orders (PSPOs) on the area surrounding a Marie Stopes clinic in the borough to stop peaceful prayer vigils by pro-life groups. With absolutely no sense of irony, the council meeting designed to suppress and prohibit Catholic prayer vigils was opened with Islamic prayers. Dan Crawford, one of the councillors (more on him later), was at pains to point out to me on Twitter that there was no slight to Christians intended. Like all right-thinking councils these days, Ealing is proud of and wishes to celebrate diversity, so the only right and proper thing to do when it comes to public meetings is to forget the Judeo-Christian foundations of this society and for the different faiths to take turns when meetings are convened. It just so happened that at this particular meeting it was the turn of Islam.
In any event, it exposed the faux diversity so eagerly championed by Ealing Council. Most of mainstream Islam is, like Christianity, opposed to Islam, so the councillors had absolutely zero interest in that faith being represented either. The gesture was pure tokenism.
When it came to the meeting itself, one might have thought that as well as hearing submissions from the petitioner wishing to ban the pro-life group the Good Counsel Network (GCN) from continuing the vigils outside the Mattock Lane facility where they have been for the past 23 years, the council would be interested in hearing from those on the vigils themselves.
No such luck. Only the petitioner, one Anna Vegilo-White, founder of the pro-choice group Sister Supporter, who had mounted a local campaign, garnering 3,593 signatures on a petition from residents, was allowed five minutes to speak, before the council ‘debated’ her motion, a ‘debate’ which consisted of councillors saying how terrible it was that these poor women were being harassed, before taking a vote.
Listen: Clare McCullough from The Good Counsel Network expertly sets the record straight with a hostile BBC Radio 5 live interviewer, on their activities outside the Marie Stopes abortion facility in Ealing.
Clare McCullough Sets Record Straight on Ealing Pro-Life Vigils
MUST LISTEN: Clare McCullough from The Good Counsel Network expertly sets the record straight with a hostile BBC Radio 5 live interviewer, on their activities outside the Marie Stopes abortion facility in Ealing.
Posted by Right To Life on Thursday, October 12, 2017
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