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Social engineering in the UK
by Scott Gilbreath ~ January 28th, 2009
Europhile Conservative MP Ken Clarke was only this month elevated to the Shadow Cabinet, but already a major rift has emerged between him and party leader David Cameron. Mr Cameron has pledged to introduce pro-marriage tax reforms, but Mr Clarke dismisses that as “social engineering”.
“My view of Conservatism is that it’s not for us to tell you [what to do through] the tax system – my wife didn’t put up with me because I was getting £150 by way of tax allowance. This is social engineering for God’s sake and when I joined the party we weren’t in favour of it.”
Mr Clarke got rid of the married couple’s allowances when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1993-1997.
His claim that the Conservative Party opposed “social engineering” once upon a time is nonsense. He is, of course, right that tax breaks for married couples is “social engineering”, but equally so is eliminating such tax breaks. Virtually everything the government does encourages or discourages particular behaviours—from corporate investment spending to criminal activity.
Given that governments cannot avoid social engineering, they should at least be aware of what behaviours are being engineered. Mr Cameron is right to want to use tax policy to counter Britain’s evident social breakdown, for there is ample empirical evidence that marriage is good for parents, children, and society as a whole.
Speaking of social engineering in the UK, British authorities have ordered two young children to be taken away from their grandparents and given to a homosexual couple for adoption. The children’s mother is a recovering heroin addict and her parents, aged 46 and 59, are “too old”. The distraught grandparents have been told to shut about it if they ever want to see the kids again.
Melanie Phillips calls it what it is: “a sickening assault on family life”. (Emphasis added.)
When homosexuality was legalised back in 1967 did anyone dream that some four decades on a British grandmother and grandfather wanting to adopt their own grandchildren would be refused permission and the children adopted instead by two gay men?
The case in Edinburgh reported today, where precisely this grotesque development has occurred, illustrates the sickening way in which what started out as a decent attempt to be tolerant towards a minority lifestyle has turned into a totalitarian assault upon family life and human rights.
This is indeed utterly revolting, completely unjust, and contrary to any semblance of social sanity. How did such petty imbeciles get the power to ruin everything that decent, caring people hold dear?
Truly, social engineering at its worst.
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