Where is the outcry from British Churches on ‘nightmarish’ nature of Scotland’s new ‘thought crime’ law?

Apr 5, 2024 by Jill

by Gavin Ashenden, Catholic Herald:

Not so very long ago, there was a simpler time when discussion about JK Rowling in Catholic circles was generally limited to a discussion between diocesan exorcists and fans of the Harry Potter books.

Back then, the diocesan exorcists warned Catholic parents against allowing their children to read Harry Potter (or reading the books themselves) because they perceived that the romanticisation of magic presented a danger to the soul and our society.

Fans of the books disagreed. They insisted that magic was metaphor, and that no one would take it seriously, while the moral and ethical content of Rowling’s books were unashamedly Christian and constituted a new Narnia genre for a younger generation.

We’re not in a position to gauge what damage (and of what kind ) might have been caused to a generation of children through the glamorising of magic; but we are in a position to judge the integrity of JK Rowling herself. She has become a public heroine advocating for the protection and defence of vulnerable women subjected to unwanted and threatening attention by men who have supposedly transitioned from one sex to another.

And this week she is once again back in her advocating role due to the implementation in Scotland of hate crime legislation. As Rowling and others have pointed out, the new Scottish law poses a serious threat to freedom of speech in general. And it poses another threat: the triumph of the disordered imagination over the facts of biology; the subjective over any attempt at objectivity.

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