UK Conservative Party Candidate Believes Gays are Possessed!

Today's Guardian newspaper has a story that speaks about the bizarre socio-political beliefs of Mrs. Philippa Stroud, who is "a high-flying prospective Conservative MP, credited with shaping many of the [Conservative] party's social policies, [and] founded a church that tried to 'cure' homosexuals by driving out their 'demons' through prayer."

As ridiculous as the claims appear, Ms. Stroud is not being misrepresented by the center-left newspaper.  In her book, God's Heart for the Poor, she discusses how to deal with people showing signs of "demonic activity". For example, an excerpt below should provide any rational person evidence of her enlightened state of mind:

One girl lived in the hostel for some time, became a Christian, then choked to death on her own vomit after a drinking bout. Her life had changed to some extent, but we wondered whether God knew that she hadn't the will to stick with it and was calling her home.

They wondered if an omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent deity, who supposedly created this woman and for whatever reasons allowed her to become possessed, knew the girl was a "loser" to which they could not cure.

I realize that this is election season in the UK and these outcropping of absurdity are bound to avail themselves.  However, these religious fanatics, election time or not, aren't doing anyone a favor by proselytizing this rubbish and engaging in what is clearly psychological abuse. 

The fact that this woman is not your average nutter, but a prominent member of the Conservative Party and a close confident of David Cameron, the Conservative party's leader, should convince everyone that these jackasses will never change and need to be permanently exiled to some Scottish island in the North Sea, where they can believe all the dogmatic malarkey they wish and practice their bizarro-land witchcraft preferably on their own rancid offspring or a stray local goat.

Religious frauds are a danger to us all.  And if 9-11 has taught anyone anything, it is the portentous evil that can be caused by zealots of all stripes advancing their religious objectives upon civilized people.