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Date: 10 May 2006 18:06:27
So Ruth Kelly is the equality minister and as Ekklesia points out questions are being asked, (most of which she is doing her best to ignore).
Ms Kelly maintains that her personal views won't influence her work which is fair enough, I know what it is to leave my beliefs at the classroom door, but is she using advoidance as her method to do this?
My main worry is that her personal views, which on some issues are publicly known, are going to stop her being able to (a) gain the respect of many she is likely to be working with and (b) following from this reduce the amount of meaningful dialouge likely to take place.
I don't want to see society giving in to the secular fundamentalists, but I think that there are real questions to be asked about the appropriateness of the appointment. I mean as pointed out elsewhere you wouldn't give the brief to somebody who refused to say what they personally felt about minority ethnic groups.