PJ Media

Perhaps the real victim here is logic. This article is an exercise in apples to oranges comparisons, and to add insult to injury it is overly sodden with emotion driven rhetoric.

The premise of this piece: In public positions such as registrar in the UK, there should only be automatons who do as they are bidded by the State. No conscience required, in fact, conscience forbidden.

This article would fit well into any Marx handbook. After all, “religion is the opiate of the people”.

Secularism: the new opiate.

Let’s say a law was passed which compelled the author of this piece to declare a faith in God before she was allowed to publish. If it suddenly became a requirement of her job, after years of work and training, would she so cavalierly toss out her retirement, job security, and benefits and trot on off to a lower paying job (and to make things equal – the author must be a single mother as in the case of the person suffering under the brunt of this particular criticism)?

I don’t think so. And I don’t think Ms. Jackson would compromise either. And if she protested against an imposition of religion, Christians would support her. Christians understand conscience.

Sad that Ms. Jackson picks a familiar target, sadder that there are those whose own prejudices enable them to readily accept it, but saddest still that no truth exists in it on which to hang even a secularist’s very small hat.

How conveniently Ms. Jackson omitted the necessity for the livelihood she’d compel the adjucated victim, Ms. Ladele, to surrender in order to comply to her arbitrary code of conduct – if it is against your conscience you must surrender your morals or quit. How convenient to ignore the many ways that the victim tried to remedy this dispute, but the only compromise suitable to her supervisors was that the Christian had to surrender her faith, morality, or income. There was a foundation for the finding of the lawsuit. Ms. Ladell was discriminated against on the basis of her Christianity. Facts in evidence. Facts this diatribe ignored.

Austen’s definition of villainy: A person who gets all that they want at no cost to themselves and at great cost to others. Ms. Ladele did not submit to Ms. Jackson’s approved version of civic villainy and for that she must be excoriated.

What is the price of conscience?

Some of us still value them.

And others write meaningless articles that stroke prejudices and offer up convenient scapegoats.

I want no part of a society engineered by secularists. It would be heartless, and worse still, mindless.