Fucking stupid opening paragraph in this Birmingham Post “news” item:
Increased confidence in celebrating Christianity and a backlash against political correctness have led to an upsurge in festive worship at Birmingham Cathedral.
In implications here are mindboggling. Apparently the Christian community in Birmingham (which, according to this article, numbers in the hundreds) were suffering a crisis of confidence in celebrating the birth of their Lord but thankfully they’ve got this confidence back thanks, in part, to the backlash against political correctness. In other words people are singing in Birmingham Cathedral not because they believe in the teaching of Jesus or because the like singing but to show those PC types that they won’t be cowed. I’m sure God would be proud.
Jasmine Gardner, the reporter responsible for this nonsense, has been put on my watch list. (A fact that, I’m sure, has her quaking…)