This extraordinary story in The Observer is a must read…
Rising Tory star Philippa Stroud ran prayer sessions to ‘cure’ gay people
Conservative high-flyer Philippa Stroud founded a church that tried to ‘cure’ homosexuals by driving out their ‘demons
We are DOOMED, DOOMED I tell ya!
LATEST Sunday evening: I read on twitter that Stroud story may be wrong – TV stations don’t want to cover it! We shall see.
UPDATE: Iain Dale says…
An Easy Target?
I enjoy reading Iain Dale’s blog. He was quick to condemn Chris Grayling over the B&B issue. Iain may push a conservative line hard at times – why not, he is a Tory? But, he is also an objective commentator so his views are worth a look.
“THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.
THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.
THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.”
Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)
If you belong to any minority (and who doesn’t) beware.
Quite! Thanks for tweeting the original story. I may well have missed it, had you not done so as can’t possibly read everything – Amazing if Observer got the facts right. Assuming they have.
[…] & Breakfast owners that they should not need to take in gays. Yesterday, not to be outdone we had reports of Philippa Stroud exorcising demons and curing people of their homosexuality through… – a story which may or may not have legs. We had Bigotgate, where Gordon brown revealed his […]
good job the tories have changed their tune and are now nice …