Why Blogs Are Really Quite Good Pt.3,498

Luke Young: A surprisingly keen follower of Welsh politics

One of the most interesting things about the Patrick Jones/Christian Voice spat was seeing members of the Tory Assembly group, including the current leader, openly associating themselves with Stephen Green. You would have thought that a simple Google search would have been enough to warn them off:

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, he (Stephen Green) issued a press release claiming that it was God’s judgement on the city’s celebration of “fetishism, sadism, promiscuity, indecency, obscenity and all the other tawdry aspects of homosexual life … Purity blew into New Orleans and purity broke the levees and flooded the city.” He wants to re-introduce the death penalty and impose “restorative justice on the Biblical model”.

More entertainingly, he claims that Pakistan lost the last Test series because he prayed that God would punish Yousuf Mohammed for his conversion to Islam. “The way in which the umpires handled the initial alleged offence of tampering with the ball, and then the massive umbrage Pakistan took … is the sort of unexpected event which only Almighty God can bring about.”

After a couple of years of the Tories avoiding this kind of issue, it was fun to see them wading back in. Sort of like the fleeting pang of nostalgia that you get when you hear that another eighties band that you didn’t like is reforming.

However, I didn’t understand why Trish Law, the People’s Voice AM for Blaenau Gwent, was so strongly and publically opposed to the reading. Then I read Luke Young’s post and all became clear. Good stuff.