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UK Minister Says "Homophobic Abuse" Same as "Racist Abuse"
LifeSiteNews.com ^ | July 10, 2007 | Peter J. Smith

Posted on 07/10/2007 8:30:35 PM PDT by monomaniac

LONDON, July 10, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - "Gay", "queer", and any other words or behaviours offensive to homosexuals must be stamped out among schoolchildren in the United Kingdom says the new Children's Minister.

Children's Minister Kevin Brennan told the homosexual advocacy group Stonewall that the government will require teachers to treat "homophobic abuse" just the same as "racist abuse." Brennan promised new regulations this autumn that would require teachers to act on name-calling such as "gay" and "queer" or be guilty of colluding in "homophobia," even when the words are being used as synonyms for "lame" or "bad."

"This is too often seen as harmless banter instead of the offensive insult that it really represents. To ignore this problem is to collude in it. The blind eye to casual name-calling, looking the other way because it is the easy option, is simply intolerable," Brennan said. "We need to create a culture where homophobic bullying is as unthinkable as racist bullying."

Brennan continued by saying schools "are the right place to start" to reshape British culture to oppose homophobia.

Brennan made the comments in reference to research from the Schools Health Education Unit (SHEU), which indicated that half of UK teachers do not respond to "homophobic" language when they hear it and that two thirds or 150,000 of "gay and lesbian" secondary school children are victims of homophobic bullying; according to the report the number rises to three quarters in religious schools.

SHEU's "findings" have given Brennan his pretext to initiate a broader program of immersing British schoolchildren in more pro-homosexual propaganda. According to the Times, Brennan stated the government will redevelop school curricula to "reflect our inclusive vision of society" in order to educate children about "the importance of equality and diversity in ways that are appropriate to their age."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: celebratesin; censorship; doasthouwill; gay; hedonism; homosexualagenda; homosexuality; moralabsolutes; pc; perverts; racism; satanicphilosophy

1 posted on 07/10/2007 8:30:38 PM PDT by monomaniac
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To: monomaniac

Ummm...no...you can’t change your race.


2 posted on 07/10/2007 8:33:03 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: monomaniac
Race is what you are, Homosexuality is what you do.

They are not the same.
3 posted on 07/10/2007 8:33:18 PM PDT by elizabetty (Perpetual Candidate using campaign donations for your salary - Its a good gig if you can get it.)
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To: sageb1
you can’t change your race.

Michael Jackson is deeply saddened.
4 posted on 07/10/2007 8:34:10 PM PDT by elizabetty (Perpetual Candidate using campaign donations for your salary - Its a good gig if you can get it.)
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To: monomaniac
Idiot. Sexuality is a matter of behavior. Race is an inherited trait. One would expect a Minister Of Her Majesty's Government to appreciate the distinction.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

5 posted on 07/10/2007 8:34:29 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: monomaniac

This guy is such a fag.


6 posted on 07/10/2007 8:38:02 PM PDT by Antoninus (P!ss off an environmentalist wacko . . . have more kids.)
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To: monomaniac

One’s race is obvious to the eye; sexual preference isn’t—Micheal Jackson and Richard Simmons being the exceptions.


7 posted on 07/10/2007 8:38:25 PM PDT by lonestar
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To: monomaniac
We need to create a culture where homophilia bullying no longer exists.
8 posted on 07/10/2007 8:38:40 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: monomaniac

Cause, y’know, the right of a little black girl to use a public drinking fountain is the same as the right of a man to fellate another man in a public bathroom. It’s all the same struggle. *eyeroll*


9 posted on 07/10/2007 8:39:18 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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To: monomaniac

But blowing up subways is just practicing one’s religion.


10 posted on 07/10/2007 8:39:20 PM PDT by airborne (COULTER: Actually, my favorite candidate is [Rep.] Duncan Hunter [R-CA], and he is magnificent.)
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To: monomaniac

bump


11 posted on 07/10/2007 8:39:55 PM PDT by VOA
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To: monomaniac

SHEU... phew-w.


12 posted on 07/10/2007 8:40:57 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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To: airborne

“But blowing up subways is just practicing one’s religion.”

LOL!
You nailed that one!!!


13 posted on 07/10/2007 8:41:03 PM PDT by VOA
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To: monomaniac

Oh, and he’s foggin right, if for the wrong reasons. Both are moronic, politically inspired 20th century inventions, obsessions of the morally superior hypocrites who like to feel so good about themselves, or at least better than the rest of us “RACISTS” and “HOMOPHOBES”!


14 posted on 07/10/2007 8:44:44 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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To: monomaniac
Call me stupid - but wouldn't a “race" of homos die out after one or two generations - if in fact it ever existed at all???
15 posted on 07/10/2007 8:44:49 PM PDT by USMA '71
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To: goldstategop

Fine, start in the Muslim schools and see how far this goes.

Yeah right.


16 posted on 07/10/2007 8:46:57 PM PDT by padre35 (Conservative in Exile.)
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To: USMA '71
Call me stupid - but wouldn't a “race" of homos die out after one or two generations - if in fact it ever existed at all???

I'm waiting patiently. All will come to pass, if only with a little time.
17 posted on 07/10/2007 8:48:52 PM PDT by TheZMan (That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends...)
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To: monomaniac

Considering that most upper-class Brits are poofters, this should come as a shock to no-one.


18 posted on 07/10/2007 8:50:38 PM PDT by Right2BareArms
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To: monomaniac

The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was a mistake I guess.


19 posted on 07/10/2007 9:14:14 PM PDT by weegee (If the Fairness Doctrine is imposed on USA who will CNN news get to read the conservative rebuttal)
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To: USMA '71

Not if they molest/indoctrinate a younger generation.


20 posted on 07/10/2007 9:16:10 PM PDT by weegee (If the Fairness Doctrine is imposed on USA who will CNN news get to read the conservative rebuttal)
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To: monomaniac
Children's Minister Kevin Brennan.....to reflect our inclusive vision of society

It's about a fierce highwayman
My story I will tell.

"Oh it's Brennan on the moor
Bold gay undaunted stood Brennan on the moor."

(Irish ballad on William Brennan, highwayman).

It is getting worse. Yes, name calling is a nasty thing. Where does Minister Brennan think it will end?Children are children and they will name call. The preparation for the sometimes harsh realities of adult life are met in school.

The records of privileged children completely shielded from reality, often show it ill fits them for real life.

He should keep his nose out of things. Let commonsense teachers deal with these things.

21 posted on 07/10/2007 9:16:15 PM PDT by Peter Libra
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To: padre35

It now appears that the Apocolypse is upon the once great nation of Britannia. Where the hell are Churchill,Wallace, and Keith Moon when you need them?


22 posted on 07/10/2007 9:21:08 PM PDT by Seamus Mc Gillicuddy (Great minds discuss ideas, medium minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.)
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To: sageb1

There is no such thing as “homophobia”

Phobias are irrational fears.

We do not berate, or punish phobics, we are sympathetic to their condition.

Distaste of an unsanitary sexual practice that leads to severe health problems is not an irrational fear.


23 posted on 07/10/2007 9:22:28 PM PDT by Wil H (So just what IS the Globe's optimum temperature?)
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To: Seamus Mc Gillicuddy

“It now appears that the Apocolypse is upon the once great nation of Britannia. Where the hell are Churchill,Wallace, and Keith Moon when you need them?”

I have forgotten the band, but the lyric is:

“...All the wars we fought..but there is no England now...”

Sadly true, it seems that Tony Blair’s closet Catholicism was the only thing keeping the UK from their own symphony of destruction


24 posted on 07/10/2007 9:26:55 PM PDT by padre35 (Conservative in Exile.)
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To: Wil H

Agree completely.


25 posted on 07/10/2007 9:27:34 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: TheZMan

Meanwhile these would-be brides have one great trouble: they can bear no children wherewith to keep the affection of their husbands; well has nature done in granting to their desires no power over their bodies. They die infertile; ...

Juvenal, Satire II


26 posted on 07/10/2007 9:31:41 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: airborne
But blowing up subways is just practicing one’s religion.

Now if the Muslims started blowing up bathhouses, they might improve their recruitment. Europe is going to blow again. It's overdue.

27 posted on 07/10/2007 9:32:10 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The only good Mullah is a dead Mullah. The only good Mosque is the one that used to be there.)
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To: monomaniac
If the new PM doesn’t take better country of his country, the radical Muslims will take care of the homosexuals by beheading them all.
28 posted on 07/10/2007 9:33:35 PM PDT by antiunion person (I vote letting the general public have open season on what is under turbans)
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To: monomaniac

“Rule One...NO POOFTERS!”


29 posted on 07/10/2007 9:36:52 PM PDT by RichInOC ("Rule Six: There is NOOOOOOOOOO...Rule Six.")
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To: antiunion person
If the new PM doesn’t take better country of his country, the radical Muslims will take care of the homosexuals by beheading them all.

As the old British proverb says.."It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good"

30 posted on 07/10/2007 9:57:28 PM PDT by Wil H (So just what IS the Globe's optimum temperature?)
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This is sort of funny since for someone to claim “homophobic abuse” they would then have to admit that they are “gay” -or I suppose the “abuse” will be subjective & transferred to people who are simply attacked with “homophobic” comments.


31 posted on 07/10/2007 11:19:02 PM PDT by Republic_of_Secession.
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To: monomaniac
I see Briton has taken a hard left down the Chamberlain road.
32 posted on 07/11/2007 12:05:03 AM PDT by SeaWolf (Orwell must have foreseen the 21st Century Democratic Party when he wrote 1984)
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To: Right2BareArms

and you base this on what kind of knowledge? Thats a class distinction, something that you in the US are supposed to be very aware about.

Unless you have first hand knowledge of your comment.......


33 posted on 07/11/2007 5:51:26 AM PDT by Rikstir
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To: padre35

“Sadly true, it seems that Tony Blair’s closet Catholicism was the only thing keeping the UK from their own symphony of destruction”

Is that the same Tony Blair who listed the establishment of the Civil Partnerships Act allowing homosexual marriage services and the increased rights for gays since he came to power as some of his most cherished achievements, or a different one?


34 posted on 07/12/2007 10:39:04 AM PDT by JHT
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