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Mayor of London censors ex-gay ad
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?
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How to avoid military service in Turkey
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:
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Facebook doesn't have "Other" on its gender categories
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.
[…..]
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.
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What does the average candidate for the Episcopal priesthood look like these days?
John Laubach regularly had sex with other men, wandered around his neighbourhood with a parrot on his shoulder and met his demise tied to a bedpost with electrical wire while engaging in a little recreational – if unconventional – sex. In his spare time he was studying to become an Episcopal priest. Anyone surprised by this? No? Me neither.
I want to know what happened to the parrot.
From here:
Police hunting new suspect after Chelsea businessman, 57, who ‘liked to bring young men home’ found bound, gagged and dead in his home.
Known in the Chelsea neighbourhood for carrying his parrot Bolo on his shoulder, Laubach was tied to a bedpost with an electrical cord.
He was found by a female friend with his hands and feet bound and duct tape over his mouth in what may have been a sexual tryst gone wrong.
Sources told the New York Post that Mr Laubach often met young men for sex and cops are investigating whether his death was part of a sex game gone wrong.
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Alberta government prevents home-schools from teaching that homosexual acts are sinful
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.
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7 year old announces he is gay, mother believes him
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?
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MI5 becomes politically correct
From here:
MI5 has been named on a list of Britain’s most gay-friendly employers for the very first time.
The security service was ranked at number 62 in the top 100 list of Britain’s best employers for lesbian, gay and bisexual staff.
It is the first time MI5 has appeared in the list compiled by the equality charity Stonewall.
I no longer live in the UK, but if I did, I’m sure I would feel a lot safer knowing that MI5 is taking the battle right to the doorstep of freedom hating terrorists by becoming gay-friendly. If this had happened earlier it could have prevented 7/7.
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Gay penguins no longer gay
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.
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Homosexuality and the yuck factor
From here:
Several students at a Hartford high school expressed horror and left the auditorium when two male members of a city-funded school play shared a passionate kiss onstage on Friday. School officials said they opted against informing parents about the event ahead of time, saying that the students needed exposure to homosexuality, and hailed the “chaotic” reaction as a victory for raising the gay issue.
It seems that quite a few students walked out in disgust. The disgust was almost certainly an instinctive rather than cerebral reaction. Is there anything wrong with that? I don’t think so. If we are designed for male-female sex, it isn’t particularly surprising that we are also designed to react with repugnance at deviations from that norm.
What is particularly satisfying is that the repugnance remains in spite of the exertions of pietistic liberal social engineers to eradicate it.