Dan Walker has been given preferential treatment by the BBC because he is a fundamentalist Christian. He says... ‘I don’t want to be persecuted because I am a Christian’
The broadcaster, who currently hosts Afternoon Edition on BBC Radio 5 Live and Football Focus on BBC One, will replace BBC Breakfast’s Bill Turnbull when the veteran morning presenter leaves at the end of this month.
Walker, who does not work on Sundays, says his faith will not “affect the way I do my job….. I thought we lived in a tolerant society where you can be a Christian, you can be a Muslim, you can be a Jew, and you can have those beliefs and get on with life. I want to live in a world where Gary Lineker can present Match Of The Day even though he’s a Leicester City fan and John Humphrys can do Radio 4 even though he’s an atheist … that’s the world I want to live in. Not where I’m persecuted for being a Christian.”
All that demonstrates the convoluted problems and twisted logic that has to be applied once you start pandering to ‘special needs’ such as religion.
It clearly does affect his job in that he won’t work Sundays if required to and unstated is the fact that anything that goes against his Christian beliefs he clearly won’t be doing either.
No good taking a job that has certain requirements only to proclaim, once you have the job, that you won’t do certain things necessary for the job because of your religion…..no good applying for a job in a whiskey distillery when you are ideologically opposed to alchohol.
A whole can of worms opens up before the BBC now.
This might make it more difficult for the BBC progressives to openly sneer and deride the Evangelicals in the US…and I wonder if Harrabin is blocking Walker from reporting on climate change as people who believe in the Holy stuff are clearly loonies as he has oft said in his sly fashion….or is that only a contempt that he reserves for people on the ‘Right’ such as Republican politicians who don’t hold to the climate fascist’s orthodoxy?
A committed Christian in the BBC? Does the word token come into anyone else’s mind?
Certainly seems like it.
Climate Change is a belief system, with the proviso that it rests on questionable data.
“Dan Walker has been given preferential treatment by the BBC because he is a fundamentalist Christian.”
A truly bizarre post, Alan.
Walker’s accepted a job that doesn’t involve working on Sundays. How is that preferential treatment?
“All that demonstrates the convoluted problems and twisted logic that has to be applied once you start pandering to ‘special needs’ such as religion.”
Huh? He was responding to a series of stories in the press which reduced him down to nothing more than his religion. They were doing the exact opposite of ‘pandering’.
“It clearly does affect his job in that he won’t work Sundays if required to…”
His job does not require him to work Sundays. So being required to work Sundays does not affect his job. You’re spouting complete nonsense.
“…and unstated is the fact that anything that goes against his Christian beliefs he clearly won’t be doing either.”
By ‘unstated’ you mean when he stated the complete opposite; “[my] faith will not “affect the way I do my job”?
Always continues to impress what sees you remain mute, and what brings you out in full spout.
Guest Who
‘Zero’, the plane of choice of the kamikaze pilots ?
Certainly the ones who appeared to fly multiple missions. Or maybe the call sign simply gets handed on?
Most certainly a different call sign for Al Beeb’s ‘Duty Officer’.
Usual smoke and mirrors, misdirections, misquotes and dishonesty from you Zero.
The ‘Pandering’ was not by the Press but by the BBC….he himself has defined himself by his religious convictions, it wasn’t the evil right-wing Press that so defined him.
As for ‘unstated’….show me where he stated that he would not do anything against his religion…..he didn’t state that…but we can be pretty certain he won’t do anything that ‘offends’ his religious principles…your counter-quote is entirely spurious as he has already shown that his faith affects the way he does his job…he won’t work Sundays if required…..if his job does not require him to work Sundays as you claim why does he have to have a special agreement with the BBC to allow him to dodge that duty? BBC journos work 24/7 if needed…but not him.
‘Dan Walker has been given preferential treatment by the BBC because he is a fundamentalist Christian.’
Might have been an idea to check UK employment law before posting Alan:
http://findlaw.co.uk/law/employment/pay_and_work_rights/working_hours/what-does-the-law-say-about-working-on-sundays.html
Or check with the experts at the BBC? Though their HR guidelines seem on par with editorial.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/nov/05/bbc-tribunal-it-chief-john-linwood-digital-media-initiative
A prolific first outing to tag team with multiples of zero, also wandering the dark corridors later at night when the main danger likely to encounter is an errant Bolly bottle on the floor.
Welcome, buffoon-San!
Not sure how you think that case is related, but we agree then that Alan is wrong on the question in hand?
Keep on trying to defend the indefensible there bud.
Kikuchio
There is a big difference between ‘Kikuchio’ and ‘Zero’ .
One is a member of the ‘Seven Samurai’, the other a plane flown by a pilot with death wish heading for a crash. Aptly chosen.
I doubt there is enough space to adequately cover what you are not sure of, but will comment upon anyway.
Equally, friendship is an early presumption, as is what anyone agrees with you upon.
But very BBC to try and claim, true.
Your ongoing defensive efforts in support of the BBC and to try and distract from any facts that show it as a poor service to exist via unique compulsion are duly noted.
Any one remember Mishal Hussein having her religious beliefs discussed in the way Dan Walkers have been?
No, me neither.
Nor her belief in the sufficient number of dead Jews either.