After an hotel in Northern Ireland rudely interrupted a speaker and stopped him addressing a group discussing marriage, the hotel has now climbed down, apologised, and more...read here...
It is, of course, disgraceful that this incident should have occurred in the first place. What on earth did the hotel staff think they were doing? I mean, literally - what did they think? What was in their minds? What had they been taught and told? Why did they imagine they had any right to prevent some one from speaking about marriage?
Boys and girls who have been attending schools in Britain over the past few years have not been encouraged to think freely and along large lines. They have been taught to pass exams, and to adopt words and phrases that will help them to do that. They have not been encouraged to read widely, to debate freely, to ponder history, to argue over ideas and ideology.
It's really rather frightening. Thank God, at least, for the small mercy of this apology...and for what it now means for wider freedom...
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