Politics: Can we PLEASE get rid of these fuckers NOW

[briarwood]

Way to miss the point! Jacqui Smith claims Iran is safe for "discreet" gays.

When I turned eighteen and got to cast my first real vote, I promised myself I would never, ever vote Tory. Bullshit like this is going to make me change my mind. Anything, anything to get these bastards out of power. I know the new bastards won't be an improvement. But this...

Let's be clear: Jacqui Smith is essentially saying that lesbian and gay people have no right to live as people. We have no right to have a relationship. We have no right to love, or to have gay friends, or to associate in any way with other gay people. We have no right to be "out".

We must live as if we were straight. We must marry, which means we must submit to sex against our desires. We must pretend, every day of our lives, so we won't be killed.

This, in her mind is the definition of "safe".

Well, fuck you.

Comments

[morgan32.livejournal.com]

I may not be walking along the streets waving a rainbow flag but I would never hide who I am, and none of us should have to.

Absolutely. But she's basically saying it's okay to send people back to a country where they'll be executed for being who they are.

I don't understand how our country has gone so darkside on the subject of basic human rights. I mean, it's like saying it's okay to send Jews back to Hitler's Germany as long as they're "discreet" about it.

[krazykipper.livejournal.com]

This is why politics is so irritatingly depressing. They're a bunch of liars, because power corrupts. Or they were liars and cheats first to get the power.


I don't understand how our country has gone so darkside on the subject of basic human rights.

It does kinda go against how ridiculously PC their all attempting to be doesn't it?