Fewer than half of the British public think diversity is strength, a survey has found. The Telegraph has the story.
‘The National Centre for Social Research found 49% of the British public feel that diversity strengthens society, compared to 64% of Americans.’ The research was based on a survey of 2,000 people.
NatCen apparently had the idea that as (a) Reform is high in the UK polls, (b) Donald Trump won the US presidential election, (c) Messrs Trump and Farage are friends and (d) both are sort of populists, ‘it is reasonable to ask whether attitudes in the UK are now aligning with those that that helped to deliver Trump his second term in office. In other words, could Farage’s UK look like Trump’s America?’
Deport Immigrants?
And the answer was ‘No’. ‘Their survey found 42% of people in the UK think there should be legal efforts to deport immigrants living here without permission, compared with just a third (33%) in the US.
When it came to how open their country is to people from around the world, 63% in the US felt this is essential to national identity but only 49% of people in the UK were like-minded.
Alex Scholes, research director at NatCen, said: “The idea that Britain is more socially liberal than America doesn’t hold up across all issues.”
UK more liberal on abortion
On abortion, contraception and same-sex marriage, the polling results reversed. UK people were found to be more liberal in their attitudes than their US counterparts.
The vast majority (92%) of people in the UK said contraception being widely available is good for society, compared with 78% in the US. Around six in 10 (59%) people in the UK think same-sex marriage being legal is good for society, but only around a third (34%) said so in the US.
Nearly nine out of 10 people (86%) in the UK think abortion should be legal in all or most cases but fewer than two-thirds (63%) felt this way in the US.
What explains the difference?
‘Diversity’ can mean different things. In the United Kingdom, one aspect of ‘diversity’ is now firmly associated with multiculturalism. That ideology and policy has resulted in a flood of Muslim migrants and an increasing and well-publicised crime spree, especially crimes of a sexual nature.
The UK public are now appalled and frightened for their families. They are conscious that they never voted for multiculturalism that they were lied to by the political elite about immigration, that the elite even scorn our heritage and that it is working out very badly indeed.
Deut 8:19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
The United States, on the other hand, was built on immigration. Its population is more racially-diverse than that of the UK, but less religiously so. Of course there are racial discrepancies, ghettos and no-go areas, but a thread of Christianity runs through, not least in the ability of politicians to offer thoughts and prayers after an disaster.
Having said that, the US has suffered neither a Muslim influx from former colonies not a tsunami of Muslim migrants from close proximity to a neighbouring land-mass. Mexican illegal immigrants are not intent on a religious take-over, even though they may well have a negative impact on services and wages.
Sexual diversity
On transgenderism, that aspect of ‘diversity’ beloved of the woke elite, around two thirds of people in both the US (66%) and the UK (65%) held that men and women cannot change sex. Around a third thought they could, which reveals an uncomfortable level of delusion in both populations. NatCen used the trans expression ‘assigned at birth’ in their question, which may (or not) have skewed the result.
‘Diversity’ can also mean homosexuality, and in this case, with more religious believers in the US to the UK, and that ‘religious believers in the US typically hold more conservative views than their counterparts in the UK’, and with a UK establishment which is overwhelmingly pro-homosexual to the extent of promoting it in schools, in foreign aid, in every public policy and public authority, you would expect UK residents to have been browbeaten in accepting the gay agenda.
It clearly hasn’t occurred to 59% of UK residents and 34% of those in the US, that it is healthy neither to individuals nor the public good when a part of the body designed for the extraction of water from bodily waste is used in sexual activity and when the destructive realities of homosexual life are denied or excused.
Rom 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Abortion and freedom of expression
‘Diversity’ does not really involve abortion, but the questions were asked anyway. It is a sad reflection on the level of debate on the abortion issue that so many, both here and in the US, think it is acceptable to put small human beings to death in what should the safest place on God’s earth. Pro-lifers have work to do. Moving to the town centre to ask passers-by to confront the reality of what they themselves were in their mother’s womb could be a way forward.
Psa 139:13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
A crucial difference has also arisen over the last five or six years. In the United States abortion is not promoted by the elite to the extent it is in the UK. Some states have enacted abortion buffer zones and there are attacks on pro-life witnesses, but there is no US-wide restriction on Christian witness at abortion premises as there is in the United Kingdom.
Many more Republican politicians appear to be dismayed, even appalled, by the attack on freedom of expression inherent in abortion centre buffer zones than their right-of-centre UK counterparts.
<h2Contraception
As to contraception, its wide availability and its promotion to the young through sex education has facilitated sexual license and promiscuity. Scripture says:
Lev 19:29 Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
Over the last sixty years, exactly that result of sleeping around has happened in the United Kingdom. The ‘whoredom’ spoken of in the verse did not have to be paid. ‘Free love’ did the job just as well and became accepted. As a result, the land is now so full of wickedness chants of death are heard in our streets and at a pop concert and a young man openly celebrated the death of a political opponent.
Psalm 12:8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
So to sum up, the British people still just about hate ‘diversity’ when it is applied to immigration and transgenderism but, after sixty years of political pressure from a godless elite, a majority have accepted both homosexuality and abortion. We are truly living in the Days of Lot.
Repentance in the biblical witness does not come bottom-up. It depends on a spirit-filled Godly leader with the courage to proclaim it. Pray for the Lord to raise up such a man in the United Kingdom.
2Chron 23:16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD’S people.
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