Baroness Uddin on choice
It’s nice that Baroness Uddin has been cleared of any wrongdoing over her expenses claims.
However, it is certainly arguable that she ought to be shamed for having (jointly) written – or at least for having put her name to – the following:
No religion of the world restricts choice, and we believe that good parents cannot either.
No religion of the world restricts choice!!!! And I’m not quoting it out of context (see Page 1).
What on earth were you thinking, Baroness?
Category: Politics, religion 5 comments »
March 12th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
Jeremy,
I think she made the statement in a very narrow sense, viz. parent arranged marriage as opposed to freely chosen partners. Of course, I don’t know if there are religions that have restrictions along these lines. For the baroness’ sake, I hope not
March 12th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Well it’s not clear she meant it in the restricted sense. But even so…
Catholics and Protestants – same religion, but in a lot of times and places, hell to pay if you crossed the divide.
An numerous other examples, of course.
March 14th, 2010 at 4:20 am
Perhaps Jeremy she got it all back to front – a conceptual dyslexia – it should have been :All religions restrict choice as do all parents” . Otherwise (my view) they are not religions, nor parents. But then she may have some view about choice which is unusual. It is a bit of a worry to realise that she is involved in Governing the choices of us citizens. Perhaps she does not do that either, given she has no idea about large parts of the real world.
Forgive my ignorance, what claim to eminence does she have?
March 15th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
I’ve just read a piece of rather derogatory journalism about her, which apart from answering my ignorance, seems to confirm a certain tendency to contradiction. Such as being PC on religious tolerance and then exclaiming about the untrustworthyness of people with ginger hair. I suppose however we are not discussing the value of certain statements on the basis of who made them, but their truth or validity. So at least she made us think/ react. Well done Baroness
March 15th, 2010 at 5:31 pm
Jonathan
I’m not sure exactly about her claim to eminence. I think she was made a life peer for her community work, etc.
But she has no intellectual standing. I know it sounds… well something to say that. But trouble is it helps to explain the shoddiness of a lot of that report, and in particular the introduction.