So that they could learn respect
Two Belfast girls, age 12 and 14, were going to be sent to Pakistan by their parents, for “education.” A judge issued a forced marriage protection order to prevent this little jaunt.
He said: “I find as a fact that there is a present real and substantial risk that G and D will be forced by their parents to marry against their wishes.”…He found the real reason G and D were to be sent to Pakistan in 2007 was “so that they could learn ‘respect’ as an overarching filial duty which I hold in the context of this family means obedience overriding their full and free choice.”
Ah yes, ‘respect’ as an overarching filial duty, meaning people never have lives of their own, because they are always the property of their parents. Life under that arrangement is always vicarious, either upwards or downwards, and never simply a matter primarily for the person whose life it is. Excessive submission on the one hand and excessive authority on the other and never a decent proportionality.
Now I’m not inclined to nationalism of any kind but I can’t help but feel proud of Britain at times like this.
Well done Mr Justice Stephens.
Now we just need the law to “interfere” in what parents can teach their children in schools regarding religion, and things will be even better.
Well done the judge.
Oh dear, as Emily shows, atheism can so easily be portayed a being a totalitarian philosophy.
Views like this make me side with the religious; its not where I really want to be.
The #2 comment of course does not actually make sense. Parents don’t teach in schools. Besides which its ironic tone [gosh, I hope so] makes it difficult to try to guess what was actually intended.
Ann Cryer, a British Labour MP also deserves a round of applause. She, almost single-handedly was behind the law that allowed this Judge to rule as a he did.
“Views like this make me side with the religious”
Views like that espoused by the religious will quickly bounce you back to siding with the atheists.
It will be like a form of ideological ping-pong.
Indeed; kudos to Ann Cryer.