Monday, April 19, 2004
I know where I came from...
The leader of Kent County Council, Sir 'I'm Julian and this is my friend' Sandy Bruce-Lockhart claims that children with parents of both the male and female variety have a more rounded upbringing and are less likely to slip in to crime when they are adult. Sadly no-one has started a fund to send Sir Sandy to Italy and China to tell the Mafia and the Triads that he thinks they are a bunch of poofy gay-boys. (Meanwhile, "Really? I'm an American professional in Public Health and I've yet to read a single study in the American medical or sociological literature that suggests anything but the opposite claim.")
But of course, there is history here...
Where it all began. "We need to re-emphasise family, Christian, religious and traditional values; and take pride in our country, our culture, our heritage and British history." Ah yes, the notorious Queer lack of national pride exposed by the KCC. And I'm sure that the Council's insistence on emphasising Christian values will go down well with the parents of all the children from non-Christian backgrounds. Perhaps the Council will also bring back the Spanish Inquisition to deal with those who deny that their God is the one true God.
How the BBC reported the story: Kent defies Blunkett on gays. Which is ironic, because Blunkett is as homophobic as Bruce-Lockhart.
This charmless man.
Sign the Scrap the Kent Section 28 Petition.
The website of the Kent Conservatives: Caring to come.
Gay Tories: I respect your right to hate my guts because of mythology, let us join together in our true objective: making lots of money and keeping the poor in their place.
(And in other news, Kent have also launched their own version of the ID Card, to try and stop underage kids buying booze and cigarettes.)
And in another part of the country, the campaign to allow the bullying of gay students to continue runs into a hitch when campaigners fails to spot The Onion is a satirical publication.
The leader of Kent County Council, Sir 'I'm Julian and this is my friend' Sandy Bruce-Lockhart claims that children with parents of both the male and female variety have a more rounded upbringing and are less likely to slip in to crime when they are adult. Sadly no-one has started a fund to send Sir Sandy to Italy and China to tell the Mafia and the Triads that he thinks they are a bunch of poofy gay-boys. (Meanwhile, "Really? I'm an American professional in Public Health and I've yet to read a single study in the American medical or sociological literature that suggests anything but the opposite claim.")
But of course, there is history here...
Where it all began. "We need to re-emphasise family, Christian, religious and traditional values; and take pride in our country, our culture, our heritage and British history." Ah yes, the notorious Queer lack of national pride exposed by the KCC. And I'm sure that the Council's insistence on emphasising Christian values will go down well with the parents of all the children from non-Christian backgrounds. Perhaps the Council will also bring back the Spanish Inquisition to deal with those who deny that their God is the one true God.
How the BBC reported the story: Kent defies Blunkett on gays. Which is ironic, because Blunkett is as homophobic as Bruce-Lockhart.
This charmless man.
Sign the Scrap the Kent Section 28 Petition.
The website of the Kent Conservatives: Caring to come.
Gay Tories: I respect your right to hate my guts because of mythology, let us join together in our true objective: making lots of money and keeping the poor in their place.
(And in other news, Kent have also launched their own version of the ID Card, to try and stop underage kids buying booze and cigarettes.)
And in another part of the country, the campaign to allow the bullying of gay students to continue runs into a hitch when campaigners fails to spot The Onion is a satirical publication.
