The purge of the conservatives

May 4, 2019 by

by Will Jones, Faith and Politics:

One day Stagecoach were sponsoring the Turner Prize, the next day they weren’t. Why did the prestigious arts award eschew the generous offer of money from the transport company? Because the chairman of Stagecoach’s parent company, Sir Brian Souter, is a conservative who has recently been active in opposing LGBT teaching in schools. He also once opposed the repeal of Section 28 (a 1988 law which banned the promotion of homosexuality in schools).

Our cultural elites are becoming less and less tolerant of socially conservative views, especially on sexuality. Anyone suspected of ‘homophobic’ views – by which they mean any kind of disapproval of same-sex relationships – is being hunted down and purged from public life.

Homophobia was one of the main charges against Roger Scruton. In celebrating his part in getting him sacked George Eaton tweeted that Scruton was a ‘racist and homophobe’ – though Scruton in fact is clear that he does not regard homosexuality as a ‘perversion’. Tim Farron was hounded for possibly holding conservative views on gay sex. Rugby Union England player Billy Vunipola was punished in April for tweeting support for Australian rugby player Israel Folau, himself sacked for tweeting Christian views on sexuality.

The message is unmistakable: don’t expect to hold conservative views on sexuality, even less to voice them, and expect to hold onto a job in the public eye. You are not welcome here.

The same goes for other conservative views, as Noah Carl discovered this week when the University of Cambridge terminated his fellowship for daring to question progressive orthodoxy on the role of genetics in human diversity.

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