"...might it be that, nearly 30 years after the notoriously homophobic Bermondsey by-election in which Simon Hughes defeated Peter Tatchell, the Liberal Democrats are much less easy a party for gay people to be open in than they perhaps believe? After all, there are notoriously no ethnic minority Liberal Democrat MPs, and only one serving peer. Could it be that the Liberal Democrats are no more at ease with another significant minority in society today?"Ah. I see. The Liberal Democrats are homophobes because they are racists. Or is it that they are racists because they are homophobes?
And he can't resist a pop at Paisley South, either:
When Gordon McMaster, a gay Labour MP, committed suicide in July 1997, he used his suicide to accuse two fellow Labour MPs of persecuting him. The sort of life which a Gordon McMaster led in politics was very different from the one a gay Tory MP leads who represents a sophisticated and educated constituency, say.My, my, my...
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Interesting article, not least for this gem:
"Personally, I don't know any heterosexuals who try to keep their sexuality private: they are always ramming it down your throat" ... I think he got a bit confused at that point TBH.
"distasteful talk of their husbands and wives and children"
Bit of a bigot really. Wants homosexual relations to be regarded as normal, but finds talk of normal relationships distasteful.
Anything Lefties don't like is always described as 'notorious'.
Yawn.
"I think he got a bit confused at that point TBH."
Indeed...
"Bit of a bigot really. Wants homosexual relations to be regarded as normal, but finds talk of normal relationships distasteful."
It's almost as if they don't see what they've written as giving them away, isn't it?
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