The Hunting of Andrea Leadsom
by David Robertson, theweeflea:
It’s the hunting season again.
With the Tory party in the throes of choosing a new leader its time for our PC secularists to start trawling the web in order to find dark and hidden secrets of the various candidates. Have they ever lied in the past? Cheated on their taxes? Kicked the cat? Gone fox hunting?
But the big sin – the one that guarantees the Twitterati and Fackbook pages go ballistic – is ‘are they Christian?’. Like, really Christian. Not David Cameron’s ‘my faith is like the patchy reception of Magic FM in the Chilterns’. Instead, a Christian whoactually reads the Bible(!), goes to church(!) and even prays!!!
If so, they must be hunted down and burnt at the secular stake.
The two remaining Tory candidates are both women and practicing Christians. Cue mass hysteria in the media among those who think that the only good thing Alastair Campbell said was ‘we don’t do God’.
Although Teresa May is a vicar’s daughter it appears that it is the other candidate, Andrea Leadsom, who is the main target of the mockery and abuse.
In an interview (see below) she did earlier this week Channel 4’s Gary Gibbon asked her: ‘Do you ever think that you have been spoken to directly by God?’.
Isn’t that an innocent question seeking to ascertain a candidate’s motivation? No. It is an accusation, not a question. It’s along the lines of ‘what kind of religious nutter are you?’
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