Doing the Bogle
The prize for last week’s most cringemakingly awful TV interview must surely go to Catholic conservative blogger Joanna Bogle, for an appearance on Channel 4 News where she debated Dr Rachel Baggeley, head of Christian Aid’s HIV prevention programme.
As you can see when watching it, Bogle cuts a totally preposterous figure as she conducts a hysterical and irate defence of the Pope’s recent atavistic remarks about the use of condoms in Africa. My personal favourite part is where she states quite clearly that 22 million people are dying “because of” the use of condoms. And her prescription for the actual cure? Ho-Hum it’s that old hoary favourite of blue-rinsers and the religious right alike, “abstinence only programmes”. I won’t even bother going into why this is the overseas development equivalent of creationism in schools or divining the future using chicken entrails, because I’m sure that anyone in the audience who doesn’t understand why people will tend to have sex regardless of what the local priest says, can have no concept of human nature whatsoever.
Anyhow, it really is well worth a view: it shows in the raw just how angry and ugly in a moralistic way the political-religious lobbies behind the anti-abortion movement in the UK really are. Unfortunately I’m having a mental block about how to embed the darn thing (it’s on Brightcove, which dear old WordPress seems not be fathoming in the same way as YouTube or Vimeo), but here’s a link to it. Enjoy.
Jim Denham said,
March 22, 2009 at 11:48 am
While we’re giving the left-footers a richly deserved kicking, I must draw readers’ attention to this excellent piece over at Dave’s Part:
http://www.davidosler.com/2009/03/protestantism_and_trotskyism_r.html