I think that civil partnerships or marriage should
be as fully available to homosexuals as they are to heterosexuals and I
am glad that the attitude towards homosexuals has changed for the better
since the days of Oscar Wilde and his Ballad Of Reading Gaol.
Yet during my 63 years in show business and
broadcasting I have worked on programmes with homosexuals and never
heard any of them raise what, thanks to the Prime Minister, now appears
to have become a highly controversial subject...
Jimmy Young, Sunday Express - one of the few newspaper columnists who lived through the Wilde trials.
Some of his best former colleagues were homosexuals etc.
Not sure where they got that amusing photocaption from, can't think of any gayer that can stick him, gay marriage advocate or no.
The Express has gone into full on attack mode on this in the last week.
Can't be arsed to contest their bigoted daftness blow by blow, but here's the ever hilarious Ann Widdecombe.
Fair dos - a rare article on gay marriage not illustrated by cake-toppers, or men's hands etc but an actual couple.
I bet she puked.
I bet she puked.
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there you go again, fagburn, taking it upon yourself to speak for all the rest of us.
ReplyDeletewell, let me disabuse you, richard, this "gayer" [stop tryna make that happen] DOES like cameron, and believe he is genuinely pro-gay or or at least benignly indifferent -- imagine saying that of a tory leader in the 80's! i'm absolutely sure many of the tories where perfectly relaxed about it then, too, privately, but cynically had to publicly affect the opposite view. this public change of heart has been so rapid and relatively bloodless that it's easy to take for granted and become blase. but this change is due in large part to the man himself and the group around him. give evil fuckers credit when it's due.
i still hate his party. i hate his economic policies. (i hate clegg even more). but as a man, yes, i like him. i liked john major, too.
besides, i hated neil kinnock, blair, and brown and, nevertheless, voted for them…i'd vote for a bladder on a stick to keep the tories out. life is not so black and white.
Politicians support whatever is expedient for them.
DeleteNotice Obama's "evolution", when he apparently supported gay marriage years before becoming President.
The vast majority of politicians, particularly those in high positions of power wait for the wind to change in society before they adopt policies.
Same with Cameron, same with Obama, and the rest.
I certainly think it's perfectly rational to conclude Cameron is absolutely of this ilk, considering his shitty record on gay rights in previous years.
Its society that changes and politicians change their "principles" in accordance.
Only the brain-dead dinosaurs of the 1922 Committee and so on or the mad irrational religious lobby refuse to change along with society.
Apart from one or two great politicians like Ken Livingstone, for instance, who took a pro-gay rights stance decades before it was politically safe to do so; most have just waited for activists and campaigners to do all the hard work and for the fruits of that decades long struggle to trickle down into the media and throughout society to the point now that it's not only safer for them to be seen as pro-gay rights but also politically expedient for them to be.
"These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others"
The opposition in the Tory party and elsewhere is irrelevant. It's only a matter of time, because they represent a minority and one that is probably quickly dying out anyway.
It's a no-brainer, despite the false homophobic frenzy the media is keen to focus on or even manufacture.
And Cameron's ideological attack on the poorest in society will hit thousands of gay people too.
DeleteSeeing as, contrary to myth, gay people are far more likely to be in low paid jobs.
No. Fuck Cameron.
Not sure where this from Anonymous above is going...
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