Posted on 07/24/2013 3:27:51 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Financial news publisher Forbes says its apologizing to Irelands president for inaccurately describing him as gay in an online article.
The New York-based media company pulled the offending piece from its website Wednesday and replaced it with an apology to readers and, indirectly, to President Michael D. Higgins.
The article, posted Tuesday by Ireland-based blogger David Monagan, called Higgins an acknowledged homosexual. Higgins, a poet and intellectual who supports gay rights, was elected as Irelands ceremonial head of state in 2011.
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HE’S NOT GAY! (Not that there’s anything wrong with that).
Michael Jackson had a wife a kids too.
I really don’t think that Steve Forbes meant it as a slur. His father, Malcolm, was apparently a homosexual. Steve himself, I don’t know.
He is a homosexual. Note that he’s not ‘gay’. He is a homosexual.
This is all so un-PC. The Irish president should instead have been the one to apologize for not being gay.
They should quit dancing around the subject .... if you mean queer, say queer.
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