UKIP: 2014 Conference Highlights

Ukip.

Britain out of Europe! Buggers out of hotels!

The 2014 Ukip conference is being held this weekend in Doncaster.

Doncaster may be a new destination for those visiting for our conference, but it is in fact one of the very oldest towns in Britain.

First founded by the Romans before they even thought of venturing further north to York, it sits on the River Don close to the border with Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire...

Typical bloody foreigners, they come over here, founding our towns...

Christians: Big On Crucifixion

One of the prickly issues for a society that attempts to be liberal is how tolerant it must be of the intolerant. Writing in the last issue of this magazine, Cristina Odone says that she feels her rights as a taxpayer, a citizen and a Christian have been trampled on. She warns of a world around the corner in which religion will be a secret activity behind closed doors.

So, what is this dystopian vision of the future? A world where if you run a bed and breakfast, you cannot discriminate against gay couples, and you have to abide by the rules of the job you are contracted to do. That’s it, really.

No one in our society has it all their own way: as an atheist, I am just as much of a trampled-on taxpayer and citizen as Odone. I pay for the BBC, yet nobody non-religious is permitted on Radio 4’s Thought for the Day. Humanists are not allowed to lay a wreath during the annual remembrance ceremony at the Cenotaph. There are 26 bishops in the House of Lords, there solely because of their religion.

As for education, schools in England and Wales are mandated to have daily Christian worship. What sort of state schools are forbidden in England and Wales? Despite the presumed anti-religious jackboot ruling over us, it’s not Catholic, Anglican, Muslim or Jewish schools: it is secular schools. You won’t find parents pretending to be atheists to get their children educated: “We had to go to lectures about Bertrand Russell every Saturday to make sure that we could get Cyril into our local atheist school.”

We can all play the victim game if we fancy it. Just as some men bleat that they are the oppressed because of feminism, Odone confuses a loss of advantage with an act of oppression. This is the shock of those who are losing their divine right to dominate...

Great piece by Robin Ince in the New Statesman.

Cristna Odone writes for the Telegraph - and has written rather a lot about those poor Christians and that horrid gay marriage thing.
She is a former editor of The Catholic Herald, and somewhat inexplicably was once a deputy editor at New Statesman.

The Bulls: From The Daily Express Message Boards

A CHRISTIAN couple who refused to let two gay men share a bed at their bed and breakfast guest house yesterday lost an appeal against paying them thousands of pounds damages.

Okay, let's see what Express readers think...

What kind of freedom is it if you can't decide if you let someone stay in your house or not? Going around naked doesn't do anybody no harm, and yet you get fined for it. What kind of justices is this??

If someone demanded on my dear grandmother to watch something like that... Have you no decency at all???

Gay minorities win again, when are these tree hugging greenies going to give up and leave "normal" people alone with their own beliefs???

I thought we were a Christian Nation why are the traitors authorites always picking on Christians, I wonder what will happen when a Muslim does the same thing. I feel deeply sorry for the two Christians it is their proberty and not that useless judge. An Englishmans home is not his home any longer we live in a dictatorship and I am sure the two gays knew what they werer doing in the beginning.

I suppose we will have to wait until this country is a Muslim caliphate, not long now:)

I believe that when we vote in morally corrupt political parties namely the CON/LAB/LIBDEM sham who continue to undermine our country's Christian beliefs and values, this is the inevitable outcome.

It was a disgrace to watch the speed of Westminster in adopting dare I say "Gay Marriages." This says it all. I would never attempt to judge a Gay person but that doesn't excuse me from knowing that certain elements of their lifestyles to be an abomination. This country has lost its moral compass. That is why I urge you all to vote UKIP as the only way back for our nation.

What an absolute disgrace that we are now having marxist political doctrine enforced upon us. This isn't what our ancestors gave their lives for.

In the British Navy circa 1500 there was a punishment for homosexual acts. The punishment read 'for unlawful carnal knowledge'. The punishment was the 'cat of nine tails'. Probably good.I always think that the human race would not have got very far if everyone was homosexual.I also think that when two guys adopt a baby the impression that is given when he grows and sees two homosexuals in bed is not good.. Lastly. These are not 'gay' men. They are Homosexuals. It is not right to usurp the term meaning happy.

Communism at it's best!
You WILL accept perverts as part of everyday life and you WILL be punished if you even attempt to resist your Marxist rulers, both in the UK and in Brussels !
No, sorry, the vast majority of normal people will NOT accept it, and I would refuse to pay the fine.

Nothing to do with Christains who wants shirt lifters staying in their guest house.Its their place they should have the right who they accomodate

I'm convinced the only reason this pair booked into that particular bed and breakfast was because they'd already been told about the owners' policy on married couples and were just out to cause trouble
I hope they are pleased with the results of their actions.

Jesus is still Lord no matter what the government or society does, and His word stands for eternity, whether we would like to change it or not. I feel for the guys who may have no idea what will hit them on judgement day after death. Like all of us, they need to repent of their sins before it is too late.

If they don't want 'chutney ferrets' in their B and B they should have the right to say so. How I hate having to live in PC world.

Tell this gay couple who are probably habitual 'how can I be offended today pc morons' and the judge to go to hell. And if they are sent to prison then that is religious persecution!

two sodomists cashing in! Homosexuality will be compulsory if the Eton Elite get their way!

PS Telegraph readers also not happy; "Let's get this perfectly "straight" - I do not like queers but would be prepared to tolerate them if they would STFU about what they do and keep it private!" etc etc.

PPS Intolerance dolled up as 'equality', Spiked. Does make an interesting point about how "Equality laws have significantly expanded the state’s power."

The Bulls: Just Let It Go Now, Please, It's Getting Embarrassing!

Guest house owners who refused a gay couple a double room owing to their Christian belief that sex outside marriage is a ‘sin’ have lost their supreme court battle.

Peter and Hazelmary Bull said they were ‘saddened’ by the five judges upholding a previous ruling to order them to pay Martyn Hall and his civil partner Steven Preddy £3,600 damages.

‘Britain ought to be a country of freedom and tolerance, but it seems religious beliefs must play second fiddle to the new orthodoxy of political correctness,’ Mrs Bull said of the verdict.

‘But the judges have sidestepped that big issue, and reinforced the notion that gay rights must trump everything else.’

Supreme court deputy president, Lady Hale, told the Bulls they were free to ‘manifest their religion’ but by barring the couple from Chymorvah House in Marazion, Cornwall, in 2009, they were also breaking the law.

Metro.

"Sorry Joseph, you two ain't married and the baby's a bastard..."

Spare a moment for that persecuted, oppressed minority: homophobes. The latest benighted martyrs for the cause of bigotry are Hazelmary and Peter Bull, who today lost their Supreme Court battle for the right to turn away gay partners. It's not homophobia, they claimed, because their objection is to sex outside of marriage, not gay couples. It reminds me of the argument once made by US homophobes: that laws forbidding two men having sex were not discriminatory because straight people were banned from having gay sex, too.

If people choose to be homophobic, they should do it in their own homes and not inflict it on the rest of us. Which is the point, really, because it's not as though The Big Gay Menace body-pumped its way into a window the Bulls had left open, made their living room FAB-U-LOUS while twerking to Lady Gaga. No, the Bulls ran a business which made money by allowing members of the public to stay in their bed and breakfast. And in doing so, they are compelled to abide by rules like, say, paying tax, complying with health and safety requirements, and not turning away guests because they are black, disabled or gay...

Owen Jones in The Independent.
Swiftian satire may not be her strong point.

Followed by the inevitable "You wouldn't say that about Muslims!" comments.

However, even most Mail Online comments say that Mr and Mrs Bull were in the wrong.
Truly, the changes they are a timin'.

Hazelmary Bull sure likes that outfit - thanks to Christian.

BBC News online looks back at the recent greatest hits and misses of boring god-botherers in the UK courts.

Fagburn's ashamed to say he missed this classic...

Beekeepers Graham and Abigail Blackburn won the right to not file online VAT returns after they argued their faith prevented them from using computers at home.
The couple, who are are members of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, reject the use of computers, the internet, televisions and mobile phones in their home.
They believed the contents of some TV programmes and websites were "contrary to the Bible's teachings".

You'd have thought their all-knowing God would have had the foresight to put something about computers in the Bible.

B&B Bigots: Some Very Sad News

 

Daily Mail.

Oh, this is just terrible.

Poor show THE GAYS!

PS Richard Littlejohn - the thinking man's Bertrand Russell - wades in.
"Not for the first time it's obvious that those 'liberals' who preach 'tolerance' are themselves the most vile, intolerant bigots imaginable."