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Morgan Briarwood ([personal profile] briarwood) wrote2008-10-07 01:44 pm

Holy fucking asshole!

I read about this on The F Word yesterday. I figured I'd wait 'till I could think coherently before I'd post...but today I'm just as boiling mad.

Today, the ass issued an apology. He didn't mean to offend "individual homosexual persons, but the promoters of gay culture". Dude, gay culture is about individual persons, and we have as much fucking right to promote our culture as you do your faith.

To paraphrase his own words: "Let us make it obligatory for homosexuals Christians to have their backsides tattooed with the slogan SODOMY RELIGION CAN SERIOUSLY DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH and their chins with FELLATIO THE BIBLE KILLS."

How would you like that? Asshole.

This is hate speech. He should be prosecuted - this is clearly illegal under UK law, and the bastard posted it on the internet: it should be an open and shut case for the CPS. But I bet it won't happen.

[identity profile] misssimm.livejournal.com 2008-10-07 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
What amazes me was the number of idiots on the Daily Mail website (ok, amaze is probably the wrong word!) are agreeing under the guise of free speech and I'm sorry, but free speech should not cover this kind of vile and uninformed comments!

I'm having a difficult time putting into words just how angry I am!

[identity profile] morgan32.livejournal.com 2008-10-07 01:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Free speech has limits, even in the US. In the UK, we don't have free speech - we just think we do. Equality legislation passed over the past few years outlawed stuff like this. It's "incitement to hatred"; in this case particularly so as he's clearly suggesting gay people ought to be treated as the Nazis treated the Jews (and gays).

I do understand the Christian difficulty with homosexuality but private religious beliefs are not an excuse for this kind of thing.

...Wow, I actually managed a coherent response. Go me!

[identity profile] misssimm.livejournal.com 2008-10-07 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I get that I do, it's more that people think it's okay to say this stuff then go "You have to let me say this! Free speech! Free speech!" It's just not okay at all.

And I agree, the same thing annoys me about some religious officials, "You have to let me say this! I'm a Christian!" again, no it's not right and it doesn't make these comments any less ignorant or hateful.