Motherhood and Apple Pie – The Sins of Andrea Leadsom

Jul 12, 2016 by

by David Robertson, theweeflea:

Gottcha! She’s gone. Ding-dong, the witch is dead. After a weekend of vitriol and abuse Andrea Leadsom has had enough and withdrawn from the race to be Conservative party leader and thus Prime Minister. Even then the abuse has not stopped – after all it just goes to show that she is a weak woman and should retire to the kitchen – where she clearly belongs (yes – that really was said!).

[…] But the real attack – and the real bitterness, came because of her Christianity.

Leadsom became a Christian in her 30’s. I don’t know about her Christianity because I don’t know her – and I am wary about claiming any politician as the next great Christian hope. In recent years Christians have many times been let down by those who profess to be Christians. Those Christians who looked to Nicky Morgan, Tim Farron or Stephen Crabb have been sorely disappointed. I do know that she attends a parliamentary bible study, was opposed to Same Sex marriage and in general is known to uphold Christian values.    Unlike so many ‘Christian’ politicians she was not ashamed to speak about her faith – “I always try to ensure that I’m doing what I think God wants me to do”.  For this she was accused of holding to ‘an extremist Christian agenda”, holding to anti-modern values and this beauty from one of the secular groups,

”it’s a disgrace that someone of these views can be considered acceptable in modern Britain”.

The Smear of Anti-Abortion

She had to defend herself against the ‘smear’ that she was anti-abortion. If you want to realize how regressive and dumbed down British politics has become, then all you need to do is reflect on that last sentence.   This was not from The Guardian but The Telegraph.  Imagine that! It is a ‘smear’ in modern Britain, even in a conservative newspaper, to be accused of wanting to stand up for the weakest and most vulnerable humans, children in the womb.  Our society is really not a post-modern, anything goes, non-doctrinaire culture. Our liberal elites have their own doctrines and they will defend them as fanatically as any Muslim would Mohammed.

Speaking of children, she was attacked for her views about children and motherhood. She has three children – and suffered from post-natal depression after the first was born. In this respect she has some genuinely radical ideas that could really help people, which almost certainly will not now be enacted. She felt so strongly about the importance of infant brain development in social outcomes, that she used a hustings to talk about the issue at length, which one MP said, went down like “cold sick”. Some Tory MPs are so empathetic!  This article from The Telegraph is revealing.

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