'Mrs Sirleaf is asked about the fact that homosexuality is illegal in her
country. She replies: “We like ourselves just the way we are.” Pressed
on
the point, she confirms that she will not sign any legislation
decriminalising “sodomy”.
'Mr Blair is a champion of gay rights, so you’d expect him to take issue
with
this statement. Not a bit of it. “The President’s given her position,
and
this is not one for me,” he says.
'Here’s another interesting vignette, again involving a Labour
politician, but
this time on his home turf. 'This week Ken Livingstone was accused by
Jewish
Labour supporters of telling them at a private meeting that since Jews
tended to be rich he wasn’t expecting them to vote for him. In a
letter
published in the Jewish Chronicle, they also accused Livingstone of
using
the word “Jewish” in a pejorative manner. And this just weeks after he
described the Tories as “riddled with homosexuality”.
'The Ken of the 1980s was painful to listen to, but I don’t remember him
dog-whistling like that. In those days he was an ultra-liberal
politician,
the whining incarnation of rainbow ideology. What has happened'
Damian Thompson, The Daily Telegraph.
It's hard to know where to start with this crapola.
So you're criticising Ken Livingstone's non-existent homophobia while defending Sirleaf's actual homophobia?
Brilliant!
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