A profile of Melanie Phillips
Andrew Carey
6/24/2005
Melanie Phillips name is mud in some left-wing circles. She is always mentioned despairingly as the former Guardian journalist, as if her journey to the Daily Mail is unprecedented.
She is now described as a ‘right-wing’ commentator, a ‘bigot’, an ‘Islamophobe’, a Zionist any other term of abuse fashionable among the chattering classes. Her response is an insistence that the move from ‘progressive’ social affairs commentator for the Guardian, to the Observer, to the Sunday Times and now the Mail, is not so much to do with changes in her own fundamental thinking, as a dawning realisation that things were not as they once seemed.
“The left defines every such change as a move to the right. Furthermore, they conceive that the right is the territory of the devil. Everyone of the right is beyond the moral pale.”
She rejects those labels... (excerpted)
Traditional Anglican ping, continued in memory of its founder Arlin Adams. Would you map our for us where the Anglican Consultative Council stands vis-a-vis traditional values versus innovation dispute?
The mainstream Protestant churches are practicing selective ethics. For example, it's immoral for the Israelies to build a wall, but it's moral for Palestinians to blow up innocent civilians. On political issues, the Protestant churches were taken over by leftists a long time ago.