I
don`t sit in “family”. I admire those who do. My knowledge and
imagination tell me as much as I want to know about the dysfunctional
lives so many people are enduring and the consequences for the
children of those broken relationships. I try to live my own life by
principles which do not have a religion as their base. So even
although Sir Paul Coleridge, recently a High Court Judge, has made
headlines based on Christian values with his views and actions of
broken families, only to be castigated by the Lord Chief Justice he
has my sympathies for what they are worth.
There
is IMHO a forthcoming backlash to be expected from Christians of all
denominations on the apparent inconsistencies applied to matters
where there is an input from representatives of Muslims in this
country. Three million Muslim citizens are regarded by many opinion
formers as a “community”. Such a term implying a group of
people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic
in common is surely misplaced in this context. For many years I was
in business with a Moslem from East Africa. By his own words and
actions he had as much in common with co-religionist immigrants from
other parts of Africa or Pakistan as he had with native Americans.
I doubt his opinions are uncommon.
As
a descendant of immigrants to this country who arrived in the early
years of the 19th century I am as aware as any that
successful nations require occasional regeneration without the
widespread use of a sonic screwdriver. But it will be a
miscalculation of wide proportion if the ideals of those who worship
under the auspices of the religious heritage which is the basis of
this country`s legal institutions feel that their belief system is
being ignored or replaced.
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