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Thread #126617 Message #2815023
Posted By: An Buachaill Caol Dubh
18-Jan-10 - 12:59 PM
Thread Name: BS: Devil's reply to Pat Robertson re Haiti
Subject: RE: BS: Devil's reply to Pat Robertson re Haiti
What Donuel wrote about Regent University, or at least one of its alumni and her attitudes to employment, gave me pause for a moment; one more example of "Christian Fundamentalism" exerting its power in USA (I remember one BBC Journalist, posted to America, commenting on how he often saw politicians carrying Bibles under their arms in White House or Capitol; not inconceivable in Britain, but unlikely). Although the "Religious Right [Wing]" in this country, UK, don't have the same kind of institutional power, isn't there a certain similarity in the kind of exclusion mentioned by Donuel and the way so many important posts in the Law, etc., are occupied by the English Public Schoolboys and Boarding-School Misses who form only about 5% of the population? Perhaps, in requiring the kind of explicit undertaking she does, Monica Gooding is simply being more honest in ensuring she employs "the Right Sort of Person" than many in this country. Either way, the rhetoric of Equal Opportunity is being more and more exposed as false.