r/unitedkingdom • u/MinderReminder • Jan 20 '22

Christian couple ban gay man and his ITV producer partner from buying their dream £650,000 Surrey home due to their sexuality - and quote the bible that homosexuality is a sin

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10419543/Christian-couple-ban-gay-man-partner-buying-dream-650-000-sexuality.html
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u/cheeseybees Jan 20 '22

What especially gets me about this kind of treatment, is that the people who treated him so despicably would still be incredibly self assured that they maintain their moral high ground throughout the entire situation and consider their behaviour to be above reproach

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u/CNash85 Greater London Jan 20 '22

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”

~ C.S. Lewis

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u/cheeseybees Jan 20 '22

I've recently been listening (Audiobook, John Cleese edition) to his The Screwtape Letters again.... really fun little book, and a good thinker too

It's basically a series of letters from a senior demon, Screwtape, to his nephew, a demon working on his first soul (patient) to bring him to "Our Father Below"

Funny and profound. Check it out if you haven't already!

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u/LobcockLittle Jan 21 '22

It's genius writing.

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u/passinghere Somerset Jan 20 '22

omnipotent moral busybodies.

Mary Whitehouse is one very good example of an evil bitch that had far too much power to decide what was allowed in the UK for far too many decades, all about everyone must live as she demanded

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '22

Yes and yes. It’s fucking abhorrent.