Re: Praying at Home Could Be a Criminal Offense in Scotland Under New law

On 2024-11-23 1:58 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
 

Scotland has enacted new abortion legislation that could criminalize praying
at home within designated zones. The Abortion Services Act (Scotland) 2024
could result in prosecution for activities conducted in their own homes if
these actions can be seen by clinic staff or patients and cause "harassment,
alarm, or distress" to staff and patients at abortion clinics.

 

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https://www.christianpost.com/news/praying-at-home-may-be-criminal-offense-in-scotland-under-new-law.html

 The Scottish Enlightenment gave the world Adam Smith, founder of the
economic philosophy of political economy, a major advancement of classical
liberalism. Scotland gave us Karen Gillam, and a performance as James
Bond by Sean Connery so powerful that ubersnob Ian Fleming retconned
Bond's backstory as Scottish.
 What could have possibly turned the country so illiberal today?

That was then and this is now. It is my understanding that most Scottish seats in Parliament were Labour for quite a few years but then, when the SNP (Scottish National Party - separatists who want Scotland to leave the UK) revived itself, most of the seats went to the SNP which was decidedly "progressive" and woke. The SNP definitely took a hit after the scandal involving Nicola Sturgeon and her husband apparently misappropriated party funds but that STILL hasn't come before the courts for reasons that are beyond me. Her successor, Hamza Yousef was a Palestinian-Scot, who was appalled that so many government posts in Scotland were held by whites, even though Scotland is 92% white. Luckily, he proved inept at governing and is gone now but the SNP is still the largest party in the Scottish assembly, at least until the next election in 2026. The SNP and Labour are both pretty "progressive"/woke and I assume the 4th biggest party, the Greens, are too since Greens seem to be woke/"progressive" in EVERY country that has them.
It's much the same in Canada where most individuals tend to lean left as as do most of the parties. The years under Pierre Trudeau did a lot to drive us further to the left as people got used to government programs being trotted out to remedy almost every perceived ill while education did nothing to discourage a reliance on government to solve every problem to the point where other options are rarely considered.
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Rhino