So 15-year-old Megan Stammers is back on British soil, with her mother and stepfather, and safely away from the fiend of a teacher who abducted her and took her to France!
Wait a minute! I saw the CCTV images that were shown on the TV News programmes. She certainly didn't appear to be under any compulsion - walking hand-in-hand with her teacher, who was being portrayed as probably having become somewhat more than a teacher!
Understandably, most thinking adults - certainly those of us who are the parents of daughters - have been up in arms over this affair, and the only complaint of which I am aware is that the British police took as long as they did to organise a European Arrest Warrant for 30-year-old Mr Jeremy Forrest.
But wait another minute! What if these two people claim that they "love" each other? This, after all, is the reason that is regularly trotted out in favour of the attempts to redefine marriage. If two men, or two women, "love" one another, they should be given the right to be married. And a pupil and teacher? Why not?!
It's another example of the "can of worms" that would be opened if the legislation to redefine marriage is introduced at either Holyrood or Westminster. Of course, someone may argue that Megan is under-age. But if they wait even the three years that would be necessary for a pupil-teacher relationship to be legal, would her family (and his wife!) be happy to give their blessing to the union of the 18-year-old and the 33-year-old? Possibly - but I suspect not.
So, is the difference in attitude merely inconsistent - or is it totally hypocritical?
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1 comment:
I was having a similar discussion with colleagues yesterday about this "abduction"
As you say, she clearly went willingly, and at the age of 15 (although still a child by law) I have no doubt she knew what she was doing. Granted, she probably hadn’t thought too much into the future, but she clearly wanted to be with him.
Her teacher of course was wrong to do what he did – but getting charged for child abduction?? Bit harsh I think
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