Category Archives: homosexuality

Rev. George Pitcher likens Anglican Mainstream to racists

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Rather than address the actual point that Anglican Mainstream is making, Pitcher has chosen to make the grotesquely bigoted assertion that Anglican Mainstream is populated by people who are no better than racists – it must be so because he disagrees with them. This probably explains why he didn’t last long as the Archbishop of Canterbury’s public affairs secretary.

From here:

I do see that the banned ads – ‘Not gay! Post-gay, ex-gay and proud. Get over it!’ – could have caused offence. But I tentatively suggest that the offence may have been worth it if Anglican Mainstream were forced to try to justify its ‘reparative therapy’ for homosexuality and, in doing so, were examined for the type of people they are. That worked at the last election with the BNP, which was blown away in the media airspace and is now electorally nowhere to be found.

And I do see that had our racist political parties (you know the ones) clubbed together for a campaign that read ‘Not black! Post-black, ex-black and proud. Get out!’, then it wouldn’t and shouldn’t have seen the light of day.

 

 

Mayor of London censors ex-gay ad

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From here:

Boris Johnson, the Conservative mayor, has pulled an “offensive” Christian campaign advertising “gay conversion” which was due to appear on London’s buses next week.

Revelations that adverts asserting the power of therapy to change the sexual orientation of gay people were due to be driven around the capital came as Johnson, who is seeking re-election in May, was due to appear at a mayoral hustings organised by the gay campaigning group Stonewall on Saturday.

The mayor immediately put the wheels in motion to halt the campaign after being alerted to the plans by the Guardian, and made clear that such advertising had no place in a tolerant city.

A clearly angered Johnson said: “London is one of the most tolerant cities in the world and intolerant of intolerance. It is clearly offensive to suggest that being gay is an illness that someone recovers from and I am not prepared to have that suggestion driven around London on our buses.”

A few points:

This is censorship of a message that is not illegal, hateful, pornographic or harmful to anyone: it simply goes against the Zeitgeist and that, it seems, is all it takes to justify state censorship.

The fact that there are some people who used to experience same-sex attraction, now don’t and are happy about it, means that the ad is true: it is not false advertising.

There is nothing in the ad that suggests homosexual acts are wrong (I think they are, but the ad doesn’t imply that), merely that it is possible for a homosexual to change his experience of sexual attraction. How is that intolerant?

Why is Boris Johnson’s intolerance of the ad more palatable than the imputed intolerance of the ad itself – especially since the ad is not intolerant and Johnson’s banning of it has been done in the name of tolerance?

How to avoid military service in Turkey

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Prove you are a homosexual.

From here:

Gay men in Turkey seeking exemption from the country’s mandatory military service must prove their homosexuality, the BBC reports, even though many army physicians realize it’s medically impossible to determine sexual orientation.

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Lacking any valid “diagnostic tools,” a physician told the BBC World Service, potential gay draftees must prepare whatever evidence they can to convince a military health panel of their homosexuality, sometimes deemed as a “psychosexual disorder.”

“They asked me if I liked football, whether I wore women’s clothes or used women’s perfume,” said one gay conscript in his 20s.

Here are a group of conscripts trying to get out of military service:

Facebook doesn't have "Other" on its gender categories

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This upsets some people.

From here:

Dear Mr Zuckerberg,

My name is Sunil Babu Pant. I am the founder and director of Blue Diamond Society, Nepal’s first LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex) rights organization.

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In Nepal, we have been working with the government to improve this identity-based access to documentation and civic participation. The Government of Nepal is working to implement a third gender option, labeled “other,” on all official forms and registers.

I encourage you to do the same…..

What Sunil Babu Pant seems to be missing is that her (his? other?) LGBTI gender alphabet soup is also missing the “other” option. After all, perhaps there is some hitherto undiscovered mangled gender classification not covered by LGBTI.

Adding an “O” for Other would give us LITGOB; that has a euphonious ring to it.

Gay tea launched in Australia

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From here:

The new DiversiTEA range features eight blends: B!tch Please, Disco Ball, D.R.A.M.A Queen, F@g H@g, French Tickler, Pearl Necklace, Pinkies Up and Pride.

B!tch Please includes chilli for a fiery drinking experience, D.R.A.M.A. Queen is blended with lime, lemon peel, and daisies in order to relax the het-up drinker.

Pearl Necklace is a night-harvested jasmine bud tea described as a “pleasure to watch”, with the tagline “Who doesn’t want a pearl necklace?”

However did Australia manage before the availability of this refined selection of rarefied pekoes?

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Alberta government prevents home-schools from teaching that homosexual acts are sinful

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From here:

EDMONTON, Alberta, February 23, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Under Alberta’s new Education Act, homeschoolers and faith-based schools will not be permitted to teach that homosexual acts are sinful as part of their academic program, says the spokesperson for Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk.

“Whatever the nature of schooling – homeschool, private school, Catholic school – we do not tolerate disrespect for differences,” Donna McColl, Lukaszuk’s assistant director of communications, told LifeSiteNews on Wednesday evening.

“You can affirm the family’s ideology in your family life, you just can’t do it as part of your educational study and instruction,” she added.

The assistant director of communications appears not to have noticed that her claim not to tolerate disrespect for differences is rendered somewhat empty considering she is unable to show much respect for views that differ from hers.

7 year old announces he is gay, mother believes him

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From here:

Considering that my son has a longstanding crush on Glee‘s Blaine and regularly refers to him as “my boyfriend,” I thought there was a fair chance that he would someday say, “I’m gay.” But my kid is only 7 years old. I figured I had a few years before we crossed that threshold (if we ever did), probably when he was 14 or 15. I never thought it would happen this soon.

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It’s amazing, but it’s also shocking. How many people have a 7-year-old come out to them? A lot of people don’t know how to react, and I don’t blame them. Before my son, I’d never met a child who came out this young — and we don’t know anyone else who has. The mere idea of children having a sexual orientation makes people uncomfortable. It’s something we don’t think about (or just don’t like to).

Yes, it is shocking: why would a mother allow her 7 year old to watch Glee and why would it amaze her that junior has been influenced by Glee’s glamorisation of homosexuality?

Boys in skirts

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From here:

Boys should be able to wear skirts to school because  uniforms ‘should not discriminate’, a children’s adviser has claimed.

Tam Baillie, the Scottish parliament’s Commissioner for Children and Young People, has backed 13-year-old Luca Scarabello, who is fighting for a ban on ‘gender-specific uniforms’.

Mr Baillie said that Luca, a pupil at St Mungo’s High School in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, who lodged a petition with the Scottish Government in November, had ‘raised important rights issues’.

The public petitions committee (PPC) is considering Luca’s proposals.

In his response to the PPC,  Mr Baillie claimed that forcing uniforms on children could cause ‘serious distress’ for those with gender variants.

The “serious distress” caused by not allowing boys to wear skirts won’t look so nearly so serious when compared to the distress that will come later from encouraging a mixed-up child to pretend he is a girl.

How many children are we prepared to sacrifice on the altar of gender equality political correctness?

The definitive marriage of convenience

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From here:

A gay air steward for the Russian carrier Aeroflot was forced to marry a woman in order to keep his job, campaigners say.

GayRussia.eu reported that campaigners had filed notice of a demonstration after gay employee Maxim Kupreev suffered unusual kind of discrimination by his employer.

When Kupreev, 25, tried to found a gay support network at the airline, he was seemingly ordered to marry.

The gay steward tied the knot with his school friend Sofia Mikhailova so he could keep his job at the end of last year, reportedly to minimise publicity for his attempted LGBT network.

What did Sofia Mikhailova get out of this arranged marriage, one wonders. Airmiles? An upgrade to Aeroflot first class with unlimited inflight borsch soup (I had it almost every day when I was in Russia; it’s not that bad – really)?

I know: free stock in Aeroflot.

 

Gay penguins no longer gay

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From here:

It appears the Toronto Zoo’s famously same-sex pair of penguins have not only gone their separate ways, but are even pursuing female partners.

Buddy and Pedro, a pair of male African penguins whose same-sex bond made worldwide headlines this fall, were separated in November so they could mate with females.

Those who argue that the existence of homosexual behaviour in animals shows that homosexuality is natural in humans, should now be arguing that since homosexual penguins can change their ways, homosexual humans can, too.

I’m not holding my breath, though.