Friday, February 03, 2006
Some of my best friends are gay...
However much I love my gay friends, I don't want them running the country | icWales
You know you're in trouble when anyone starts a paragraph:
'Before I am accused of prejudice, I should say that not only are some of my best friends gay, but probably most of them are.'
Lowri Turner does just that, and then goes on to say that because we don't have children we're unfit to run the country. "My gay friends have not sat in accident and emergency with a small child. They have not had to make the decision over whether to give them MMR. They have not struggled to get their child statemented or gone through the schools' appeals process. Without these experiences at the sharp end of our public services, they do not know how they function. This makes them completely out of their depth in administering them."
Well, maybe true. But do you think Tony Blair has had to sit in A&E with his kids? I think not. Did he have to go through an appeals process to get is kids into the posh London Oratory? Of course not.
How far do we go? How many MPs have experience of fighting wars? Without it, perhaps they are unfit to make decisions about Iraq or Afganistan. How many of them have taught in schools or universities? Does that mean they shouldn't make laws about education? Experience of the prison system? Commuting to work by public transport? Being black? Being poor?
No individual has experience of everything, which is why we need a range of people in parliament. In fact, we need a much wider range than we already have. Saying that gay men can't represent people because the majority of people are straight is as offensive - and silly - as suggesting that asian people can't do the job because most people are white.
If most of Lowri's friends are gay, I'm guessing she might be feeling lonely this weekend.
You know you're in trouble when anyone starts a paragraph:
'Before I am accused of prejudice, I should say that not only are some of my best friends gay, but probably most of them are.'
Lowri Turner does just that, and then goes on to say that because we don't have children we're unfit to run the country. "My gay friends have not sat in accident and emergency with a small child. They have not had to make the decision over whether to give them MMR. They have not struggled to get their child statemented or gone through the schools' appeals process. Without these experiences at the sharp end of our public services, they do not know how they function. This makes them completely out of their depth in administering them."
Well, maybe true. But do you think Tony Blair has had to sit in A&E with his kids? I think not. Did he have to go through an appeals process to get is kids into the posh London Oratory? Of course not.
How far do we go? How many MPs have experience of fighting wars? Without it, perhaps they are unfit to make decisions about Iraq or Afganistan. How many of them have taught in schools or universities? Does that mean they shouldn't make laws about education? Experience of the prison system? Commuting to work by public transport? Being black? Being poor?
No individual has experience of everything, which is why we need a range of people in parliament. In fact, we need a much wider range than we already have. Saying that gay men can't represent people because the majority of people are straight is as offensive - and silly - as suggesting that asian people can't do the job because most people are white.
If most of Lowri's friends are gay, I'm guessing she might be feeling lonely this weekend.
posted by MR @ 2:18 PM 
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The woman is a tit. I wrote about her insanity on my own blog here some time ago. My boyfriend and I are going through the adoption process, apparently we've been told we're the first gay couple in Calderdale to apply, and besides that we've both changed more than enough nappies on relatives' and friends' babies, cleaned up enough sick, walked kids to school and yes, done the responsible thing.
This woman clearly only knows, one presumes, drug-addled disco divas with bodies like sticks and lips puffed up to resemble choux pastries. She should get her head out of her own vagina, realise that there are so many different gay people, because we ARE people, that any attempt to categorise us all is similar to that thing called racism, which we call homophobia. x
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This woman clearly only knows, one presumes, drug-addled disco divas with bodies like sticks and lips puffed up to resemble choux pastries. She should get her head out of her own vagina, realise that there are so many different gay people, because we ARE people, that any attempt to categorise us all is similar to that thing called racism, which we call homophobia. x
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