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[elisi]

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.)

Comments

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I have no problem with banning such kisses until 9p.m. - provided they ban them between heterosexual couples as well.

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!

[elisi]

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!
Hmmm. Good point... Although can we ban anything that might turn them into Tories?

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

A few years of Tory government is, sadly, the thing most likely to do that.

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!

[elisi]

Yeah, I fear you are right. :(

[cinderbella333.livejournal.com]

That's ridiculous for so many reasons. Also, that's one of my favorite scenes from new who, simply because we see the Doctor get kissed by a man (though could it be more chaste?). Still, out of all the times the Doctor has saved people's lives and been grabbed by a new friend and kissed, it's rather ridiculous that some new guy friend whose life he just saved hasn't grabbed him and kissed him. In fact, I think I am going to put that on my prompt list. 'Eleven gets kissed by man he's saved." Hopefully in front of River (who doesn't bat an eye), Amy (who tries to take a picture with her camera phone), and Rory (who starts to understand the Doctor's perspective on the whole Amy-kiss thing, considering the Doctor's own wife's behavior).

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.

[hello-spikey.livejournal.com]

Now that is an image to get people politically motivated!

And here, have some schadenfreude to cheer your day:
http://www.ranker.com/list/top-10-anti-gay-activists-caught-being-gay/joanne

[independence1776]

What?!

And here I was thinking people in the UK were a bit more enlightened.

[peroxidepirate.livejournal.com]

Bucket of WORD.

[elisi]

Well this is the Tories we're talking about...

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

I'm still boggled that the chief executive of the Mothers' Union is a man named Reg.

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. :-/

[poshcat.livejournal.com]

Good lord, can't they fix the economy before they try to outlaw pretty boys kissing? Priorities, people, PRIORITIES.

[lynnenne]

Oh, for the love of Pete. First Stephen Harper gets re-elected and now this. All prime ministers are fired.

[elisi]

Yeah, I'm right there with you.

[elisi]

Srsly, we need something to distract us...

[elisi]

I'm still boggled that the chief executive of the Mothers' Union is a man named Reg.
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.)

[elisi]

Love your link! Thank you! :D

[elisi]

In fact, I think I am going to put that on my prompt list. 'Eleven gets kissed by man he's saved." Hopefully in front of River (who doesn't bat an eye), Amy (who tries to take a picture with her camera phone), and Rory (who starts to understand the Doctor's perspective on the whole Amy-kiss thing, considering the Doctor's own wife's behavior).
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*

[cinderbella333.livejournal.com]

As soon as I'm done with finals and term papers and the gift-stories I owe people, I am going to go on a DW-fanfic-writing-BINGE! And this will be one of my first stories. I plan to write a whole bunch of happy stories because life has been too damn sad with news like above, one of my foster kittens dying yesterday (hopefully we won't lose more), and all the other freaking depressing things popping up recently. So obviously life will be improved with more thank-you-Doctor-boy kissing fic. I think River Song would agree. Because she's awesome. And she'd tell PMs that support this kind of shit that they can eat their own pants.

[elisi]

*sporfle*

I, uh, look forward to this a lot. Also, River and her non-jealousy is one of my favourite things ever. ♥