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If you don't know already, today is the day the first parts of the United Kingdom can carry out civil partnerships. Naturally this is a big subject on the news channels. I've just been watching some twit blithering away on Sky, quoting from a bygone text, furious stomping how "in the beginning it was Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve".

Fuck off!

I live in a country governed by the law of the state, not the church. I respect everybodys individual faiths, and that within their religions certain rules and commandments are followed, but outside of this I'm afriad their influence should be nill.

Thousands of people who love each other dearly now have the opportunity to express their feelings for eachother the same way any straight couple can, through the bond of partnership/"marriage", and moreover be privy to the same rights as all hetrosexual couples.

Today should be a proud day for us all.

Me and Phil are getting married next week. We're having a pink limosuine and lots of Ferrero Rocher.

i often wonder if news channels would give air time to similarly ignorant racist opinions.

if i were to email into sky saying "all none-white people should bugger off back to where they came from" or the equally ludicrous "black people are inferior to white people, they have smaller brains, they live in mud huts, all asian people are islamic terrorist suicide bombers" etc etc, would i get any air time?

no.

there are people who hold such opinions in the country - so reading it out would be "reflecting" their views - but, quite rightly, tv stations don't pay any attention to such viewpoints because they are ignorant and based upon an inherent irrational dislike or hatred for other races.

and yet sometimes there seem to be no limits as to what opinions and ideals people can spout about the gays.

i'm not arguing against free speech, but i think there is a difference between debate and ignorance.

Curiously, the Sky News poll on the telly suggested that only 20% support gay marriage, with 80%- and when I went to register my "support" for the pro-cause on the website (which I believe is linked to the news active vote), it was much closer to 50/50 (albeit with less than 1% against "winning").

If I was a conspiracy theorist, I'd say the Sky are evil and trying to change public opinion etc etc.

tvmercia wrote:i often wonder if news channels would give air time to similarly ignorant racist opinions.

if i were to email into sky saying "all none-white people should bugger off back to where they came from" or the equally ludicrous "black people are inferior to white people, they have smaller brains, they live in mud huts, all asian people are islamic terrorist suicide bombers" etc etc, would i get any air time?

no.

there are people who hold such opinions in the country - so reading it out would be "reflecting" their views - but, quite rightly, tv stations don't pay any attention to such viewpoints because they are ignorant and based upon an inherent irrational dislike or hatred for other races.

and yet sometimes there seem to be no limits as to what opinions and ideals people can spout about the gays.

i'm not arguing against free speech, but i think there is a difference between debate and ignorance.

I tend to agree with you. It is worth pointing out that an Edinburgh University lecturer had done some research on "black people" and indeed discovered that their brains process in a different way (unexpectedly so), and it could give credence to an argument that they are "insufficiently equipped to learn to the same extent as caucasians".

He was roundly attacked from all quarters for this "racist" comment, and yet any arsehole with a kappa tracksuit can tell me I'm less of a man because I'm gay?

Makes me sick.

New research also indicates that one in every 16.6 people (6% of the population) are gay.

I think around here it may be slightly more though....

Gavin Scott wrote:...yet any arsehole with a kappa tracksuit can tell me I'm less of a man because I'm gay?

You're all man to me Gavin.

What the hell is your signature all about, Ison?

I've just noticed it. Homosexual encounters? Oh purrrrleaasse!

This must be the only place on the entire Internet where someone is victimised for being STRAIGHT!

Jamez wrote:What the hell is your signature all about, Ison?

I've just noticed it. Homosexual encounters? Oh purrrrleaasse!

This must be the only place on the entire Internet where someone is victimised for being STRAIGHT!

It was ages ago when you mentioned your trip up to some field and that guy saying it to you.

Speaking of signatures, when does Hymagumba plan to remove his sig that suggests I am a hypocrite?

When you're not a hypocrite any more, one would imagine.

cdd wrote:Speaking of signatures, when does Hymagumba plan to remove his sig that suggests I am a hypocrite?

when somone posts a picture I deem worthy of replacing it with.