Here we go again! Interesting story in Pink News about Sayeeda Warsi (http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-4917.html). She's the Tory recently appointed to 'Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion' by David Cameron and with it gets a seat round the Shadow Cabinet table. In leaflets aimed at the Muslin community she allegedly wrote in her 2005 election material: "Labour has scrapped Section 28, which was introduced by the Conservatives to stop schools promoting alternative sexual lifestyles such as homosexuality to children as young as seven years old."Labour reduced the age of consent for homosexuality from 18 to 16, allowing schoolchildren to be propositioned for homosexual relationships." Her agent then apparently used the same leaflet last year. For those seeking to portray the rank and file Tories as homophobic this is gold dust. For me, the greater significance is a much wider one. We generally talk about an equality agenda yet in reality this is very misleading. On the one hand David Cameron is seen as promoting the 'equality agenda' by bringing the first Muslim into such a high ranking position. Yet no the other hand she is actually someone with ultra conservative views who just happens to be of Asian origin. If it wasn't for her skin colour would she be in a Cameron cabinet given her views on this social issue? Does anyone think Cameron would have appointed a racist lesbian to the shadow cabinet? More to the point, would that have had more media coverage than this did?
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