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Did you vote?
If I had needed a further excuse to NEVER vote for the Tories, this story would have done it. (Torchwood star John Barrowman is stunned and dismayed by British Prime Minister David Cameron's apparent support for a ban on showing same-sex kissing on U.K. television outside late-night "adult" viewing hours.)
For starters, they'd have to ban re-runs of Doctor Who...
(Many thanks to Sueworld for the link.)
For starters, they'd have to ban re-runs of Doctor Who...
(Many thanks to Sueworld for the link.)
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After all it's supposed to be about the premature sexualisation of children, and most of them are going to be sexualised prematurely into heterosexuals!
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Hmmm. Good point... Although can we ban anything that might turn them into Tories?
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I know from my daughter and her university friends, from fairly mixed backgrounds, that how they voted in the last UK election was based on only one main thing 'Anything but Labour!'
Why? Because they could only really remember life under Labour; she was 9 in 1997. So they begin to think 'Things could be better than this - there must be some other way that would be better... We'll vote for whoever isn't the current lot.'
So, sadly, a few years of Tory rule is the most likely thing to put them off!
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It's actually really upsetting that so many people in the world seem to believe that being exposed to the LGBT community is like being exposed to the drug community. It's so ridiculous. We are good citizens. We are good people.
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I love this too much for words and need it in my life NOW!
It's actually really upsetting that so many people in the world seem to believe that being exposed to the LGBT community is like being exposed to the drug community. It's so ridiculous. We are good citizens. We are good people.
Ugh. The WORLD is so wrong, in so many ways. Gay people is not one of them. *is grumpy*
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I, uh, look forward to this a lot. Also, River and her non-jealousy is one of my favourite things ever. ♥
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And here, have some schadenfreude to cheer your day:
http://www.ranker.com/list/top-10-anti-gay-activists-caught-being-gay/joanne
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And here I was thinking people in the UK were a bit more enlightened.
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Okay, he might be a transsexual man who gave birth pre-transition. But I somehow doubt it.
On a more positive note, the Mothers' Union website has a rather angry public statement "explicitly disassociating" themselves from the newspaper reports about this: "The Mothers’ Union’s Campaign is gender inclusive and is therefore, neither targeted towards or against any type of relationship and should not be expressed as such." Hopefully there'll be enough bad publicity about this that Cameron will backpedal hastily and claim he was misquoted or something. :-/
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Dude that totally passed me by! And yeah, I don't know what to do with that either. How peculiar.
On a more positive note, the Mothers' Union website has a rather angry public statement "explicitly disassociating" themselves from the newspaper reports about this
Oh good. And let's hope Cameron backpedals - he's rather good at that.
(Your icon is awesome btw.)
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