Dear Sir,
As one who might be labelled a ‘Leftie Christian’ by John Humphrey (en, July, the mail box), might I add a few comments to his letter. There are Christians in all main political parties. I joined the Labour Party a few years back, partly because a prominent evangelical within the Conservative Party (who suffered for standing by his principles) encouraged me to seek to recall Labour to its Christian Socialist roots, as he had taken a stand within the Conservatives. Events in recent weeks have brought home to me how much the leadership of all political parties and other organisations have been taken over by those with a profoundly anti-Christian agenda.
Our local party had a discussion (prompted by grass-roots pressure) on how the party should respond to the Conservative Government’s proposed simplification of procedures for changing sex, so that a man might no longer have to go through a lengthy, careful, medical process, but be counted as a woman and use women’s facilities simply because he so ‘self-identified’. It was plain that there was overwhelming opposition to this, on grounds of plain common sense as well as defence of women’s rights. We heard testimonies of how some women had already suffered distress because of crass application of such political correctness. (I am having my name and precise location withheld to protect their confidentiality.) I would imagine there was similar feedback from other local parties, yet no one in national leadership seems prepared to challenge the ‘transgender’ agenda.
