US-style Christian fundamentalism on the move in UK
From British blogger Sunny Hundal's frontpage contribution on Talk To Action:
Christian fundamentalism has well and truly arrived in the UK. And it is rapidly reaching the upper echelons of the Conservative party.
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The human fertilisation and embryology controversy and the argument over hybrid embryos, abortion and gay rights is merely the start of a larger cultural battle that they will want to wage across Britain for years to come.
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[T]he first tactic of fundamentalists is to deny their links to each other until they're confident that coming out more openly won't jeopardise their agenda.
Hundal's diary is in part a response to the Channel 4 documentary of the current Dispatches series, "In God's Name."
TMurray on Talk To Action also provides an update on Conservatives' attempt, funded and coached by the D.C.-based Alliance Defense Fund, to proposed a bill in Parliament intended to restrict abortion.
(The documentary "In God's Name," is available in its entirety on the sanctioned torrenting site--a "P2P," meaning "peer-to-peer," file-sharing website for large files--for UK-produced programs, UKNova.com. Search for "Dispatches: In God's Name." UKNova is available for a limited number of members, but memberships expire frequently--probably several a day--as users fail to maintain activity on the site. So, if you can't successfully register at first, keep trying periodically; a new membership slot will open up eventually. Programming on UKNova is available for only a limited time, and no programs are allowed to be shared that are commercially available; so if you'd like to see the documentary, don't dally!)
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