Posted on 10/11/2011 4:26:22 PM PDT by Salman
David Cameron has pledged to slash aid to African countries with poor records on homosexual rights.
The Prime Minister will tell struggling nations they will receive funding ‘fines’ if persecution of gays continues.
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Let’s see...before Cameron went into politics he was a lumberjack, and he was OK...
It would be interesting if they had the same concern for the rights of Christians.
Do they still get their oil from Saudi Arabia?
Yep, it is alright to kill Christians and their families but what ever you do don’t bad mouth a queer(I don’t use the word gay because it has a real meaning and it doesn’t mean queer).
Should be exclusively Muslim countries that get hit.
Should be exclusively Muslim countries that get hit.
What an IMMORAL IDIOT!!!!! Hope you lose.
If you aren’t pumping sewage, no $$.
I hope they tell Cameron what Britain can do with their foreign aid.
I agree with you.
At Christmas, when we sing "Don we now our gay apparel," does that mean we're going in drag?
When Stephen Foster wrote, "'Tis summer, the darkies are gay," did he mean they were straight in winter?
If "We'll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home," how are we supposed to feel the rest of the time?
I refuse to participate in the hijacking of a perfectly good English word for which there is no good substitute.
What a LSS hypocrite. Is he going to change Britain’s relationship with Saudi Arabia? Or any other Muslim country in the Middle East with strict laws against homosexuals?
Typical of Europeans; he’s two faced.
This should really help with that whole AIDS problem in Africa?!?
it is like jimmy carter saying one thing in english and a different thing in spanish but IMPLYING it was just a translation.
This is for the home rubes.
overseas it is meaningless.
That's right -- must avoid ambiguity and, frankly, euphemism.
Tho' I still sometimes use it myself, after using the word "homosexual" first, in order to establish context and meaning.
Not really. He's just being a politician. This is for home consumption, to score a few points with the gay lobby (which is increasingly powerful) and to make us all feel good about our fairness and equal opportunities stance. In reality it will make no difference at all, at least to the powerful countries in Africa we deal with. There will always be ways around it. The people who will really suffer are those very poor countries that nobody cares about, who will have their moral stances rubbished. You know, the ones who most need the aid and the ones we should really be supporting.
Short term gain, long term pain.
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