A report has reached Cranmer's Curate that his blog is 'right-wing'.
Your curate is mortified by the suggestion.
He is not party political. He has respect for politicians of integrity in various political parties represented in Parliament, and he regularly prays that God will raise up a new generation of Christians in politics who will be salt and light for Christ in the mainstream political parties.
Three facts may be of interest to the youth group:
* had cc been of voting age in 1945, he would have voted Labour, being convinced that its manifesto was in the best interests of the country at that point;
* when he was a schoolboy, cc went on a peace march with Mr Tony Benn, for whom he retains some degree of respect;
* though cc was elected as a Conservative delegate to the National Union of Students' conference in 1986, he subsequently resigned from the Cambridge University Conservative Association. Your curate would observe that the then wackily politically-correct antics he observed at this gathering of adolescent political hacks in Blackpool are now very much in the mainstream of British politics across the parties.
In any event, your curate hopes this knocks any right-wing suggestions firmly on the head.
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Well, at least I didn't fall into the trap of labelling you thus :-)
ReplyDeleteI agree very strongly that the upcoming wave of politicians for the future need to include a good number of Christians, to ensure that erosion of so much that is good about our nation's inherent culture is not swept away by the "multi-culties" and the so-called politically correct.
It was something I brought to the Council Chamber during the eight years I was there. I was even the Deputy Assistant Backup Mayor's Chaplain on one occasion :-)
Thank you sir - honoured to welcome you to cc. What practically can be done to encourage orthodox Christians to go into politics & serve Christ in that context? There seems to be so much apathy and cynicism around these days - surely Christians of all people should be the ones to counter that.
ReplyDeletePersonally I'd still rather that accusation than being accused of being a "leftie Liberal" LOL
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