Radio Gaga

[hellison]

Driving into work this morning, a tad on the late side (since I finally got some sleep and couldn't actually wake up again), turned off Johnny Cash to hear the news. Some bitter amusement, and some total jaw-dropping WTF followed

Terrorist Amnesty Bill - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4460834.stm
Going for it's 2nd reading, up til now the only ones pushing for this at all have been Sinn Fein. BUT teh HORRORS, Blair has decided to include members of security forces along with the terrorists and listening to Adams frantically denounce the concept that Soliders who shot people can be given the same amnesty as terrorist who did gave me a kind of grim amusement. Again I am left wondering how does that man not choke on his own hypocrisy every time he opens his mouth?

Then the news that Lisburn Council (my council) has done a u-turn on allowing the civil partnership unions in the council buildings. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4458814.stm
I was about to go 'yay, sense!', got as far as 'ya...' when on comes the Alliance councillor (who, to my now utter shame, I voted for) to say how HORRIFIED and DISGUSTED he is that this could even be considered, we are destroying the fabric of society, the whole concept of marriage and family and if we let THIS happen, WORSE will come and there'll be GAY ADOPTIONS and society will come crumbling down round our ears -
"Where do we go from there, if we allow young people to believe or to think that having two mummies or two daddies is the norm in our society?"

I think, Seamus, we go to a society with a lot less bigotry, repression, hatred and fear of TEH GAY.

It's not like we don't have enough bigotry and division here, and you have to be "horrified" (direct quote) about this? Wouldn't you be better tackling the sectarianism, the poverty, the crime, the deficits in local school and hospital budgets or any one of a number of things that SHOULD horrify you, rather than attacking a decision to let people formalise a commitment to each other?

Horrified? I'm sickened. If he was talking about mixed race or mixed religion couples, he wouldn't have been given a second of airtime to spout this diseased crap. I... damnit I am furious and wondering who the hell I write to to express the fact that I do not want this man as any kind of representative of mine.

Gnah. On a lighter (maybe ;p) note, being thoroughly fed up of the constant George Best coverage, this from Miv this morning (via, I suspect, Dogbolter) made me laugh a lot -

I think George Best may be dead, I saw I sign outside the butchers today, Best Liver for Sale

Aye, but which one?

Comments

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

RE: Terrorist Amnesty Bill.
You said
'Again I am left wondering how does that man not choke on his own hypocrisy every time he opens his mouth?'
His Beard has a secret anti-choke device. That's why he strokes it every time he lies.

[kelemvor.livejournal.com]

The concept of marriage was destroyed by the legality of divorce. If they're that concerned about the Sanctity of the Family ^TM, make it that much harder to get out of marriage, rather than denying it to people who want to get in to it.

[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

The biggest difficulty I have with much of the anti-gay parenting thing is that a lot of it boils down to "Children should be brought up with their mum and dad and everything else is inferior." Not everyone, I know, but if you dig around a lot, that's at the heart of a lot of people's objections.

Which is all well and good, but leaving aside the evil homosexuals, it leaves out people who aren't in a mum and dad relationship entirely by accident. If the father is killed in an accident, say, I don't want a society which denegrates the efforts of a single mother. Or if a father is left holding the baby, that the kid is raised by father and grandparents is completely sensible. Or a woman who leaves a violent husband and moves in with her sister - OMG TWO WOMEN TEH LESBINANISMISM! And I think that anyone in a situation like one of those who raises their children to be healthy, happy and such deserves our full support.

Bah.

[malvino.livejournal.com]

lummy :/

...will prevail without fail.

[kearsley.livejournal.com]

Horrified? I'm sickened. If he was talking about mixed race or mixed religion couples, he wouldn't have been given a second of airtime to spout this diseased crap. I... damnit I am furious and wondering who the hell I write to to express the fact that I do not want this man as any kind of representative of mine.

See, what you need to do is introduce him to a mixed-race catholic-protestant gay couple. Then when a vein in his head explodes, leaving him unable to speak or dead, you can argue that, in his own view, he died of a natural reaction to SIN.

(Trans: Every country needs a Rick Mercer or a 22 Minutes)