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CW: The son of Anglican Church abuser John Smyth QC was one of his earliest victims. Warning, this report contains extremely distressing details.
A terrible story but compelling.
‘The Makin review detailed Smyth's horrific abuse of those he met at public schools and Christian summer camps. What is less well known, is how Smyth senior controlled and abused his own family, who are only now facing up to the devastating toll on their lives.’
#AnglicanChurch #ChurchOfEngland #Archbishop #ArchBishopOfCanterbury #UKPol #JustinWelby #JohnSmyth
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Also see Geoffrey Robertson discuss his experience of John Smyth. -
Anybody following UK news at the moment will know that the Church of England's Archbishop of Canterbury is under pressure to resign following a report describing church inaction over John Smyth's years of sadistic child abuse.
This scandal, however, should not be considered as
solely of concern to the Church of England. As this article makes clear, Smyth was a major figure in the 1970s crusade by British social conservatives against "the permissive society", a crusade which helped prepare the way for the triumph of Margaret Thatcher and her melding of "Victorian values" with militant neoliberalism.Smyth's story is more than the history of one depraved individual. It calls for further investigation into his shielding and consideration of the ideological roots of rightwingers' readiness to close their eyes to such horrors.
John Smyth: the go-to barrister for Mary Whitehouse | Christianity | The Guardian#JohnSmyth #UKHistory #UKPolitics #MaryWhitehouse #Thatcherism #SocialConservatism