Iriswatch!

[hellison]

Remember our lovely homophobic rabid MP/MLA Iris Robinson - if not, she has her own tag now!

Previously, on Iris Watch, she started off by saying live on radio that she knew a "lovely psychiatrist" who could turn homosexuals back to hetrosexuality.
This was soundly denounced by Royal College of Psychiatrists, as well as most people with a functioning brain.
At the time the Lovely Doctor in question stood by it. But Today?
He has resigned as her aide -

"Dr Paul Miller, a part-time adviser to the Strangford MP and MLA, has decided he can no longer work for her after her controversial comments about gay people."

Tellingly, he's also "taking a break" from his other psychiatric work, which make me think he's not so much walked as been shoved out the door by his collegues/ruling body...

BUT what's bugging me about this (and did before) today, is the BBC's total ignoring of the situation.
When the whole 'Iris compares gays to sex offenders' storm broke, all their website had was a tiny paragraph saying she claimed to have been misquoted. It wasn't mentioned on the tv news at all.

The only time it DID come up on TV was recently when Peter Tatchell, speaking at one of the Pride events, said King Billy was A GAY. TEH HORROR. But even then all they said was "after recent comments by Iris Robinson", with *no mention whatsoever* of what she'd actually said.

So far today, checking the BBC website, there's not only no mention of him resigning, it is completely ignored in the What the Papers Say section, despite it covering the front page of one of the main local papers (the Irish News).

Why so coy BBCNI? Don't we want to offend the First Minister by showing the public what an embarrassingly narrowminded bigot his wife is?

Hmm. This got longer than intended. It always seems to with Iriswatch ;p

Comments

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

I never knew that Billy was in the gays. I just discovered this satire from the time:

For the case, Sir, is such, / That the people think much, / That your love is Italian, your government Dutch. / Ah! Who would have thought that a Low-Country Stallion, / and a Protestant Prince should prove an Italian?

Apparently 'Italian' was shorthand for 'gay'. Lawks!

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Woo, you live and learn!
There are Theories about him, mostly stuff like he never took mistresses and had Close Male Friends. But of course the mention that he MIGHT be sent the fundies here into coniptions of rage ;p
Presumably they'd have been grand if it had been Ladies he'd been shagging on th side...

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

They really get their knickers in a twist over gayness, don't they, the Unionists? Why are they so het up about bum sex?

[hellison.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure really! A lot of them come from good Old Testament based bible thumping stock, but even among the more (relatively) liberal ones, they still have a very extreme reaction to it all. It baffles me too

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

Extreme cos they want some, probably...

[hellison.livejournal.com]

It would explain why they're so keen to hang round 'protesting' outside gay bars and at Pride marches and so on...

[adelpha.livejournal.com]

http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page16526 -> Neatly sidestepping the issue

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Hmph. Not so much 'sidestepping' as backing away from rapidly ... with a lot of blah blah blah equality blah blah inclusive blah tagged on at the end.

Woo, 15,700 signatures tho. That's quite a lot of votes.

[adelpha.livejournal.com]

Ok, that made it onto the BBC.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7560747.stm

Also, WFT? at the interview at the bottom of http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7444565.stm - 'If anyone takes issue, they're taking issue with the word of God.'

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

I'll stick her with my pointy knob end

[hellison.livejournal.com]

She might enjoy that. As long as you're not sticking her in the BOTTOMNAL AREA because that's what they seem to get most upset about. BOTTOMS ARE BAD, M'KAY?
I'm not sure if, like Queen Victoria, she doesn't believe in lesbians or if she just doesn't get so... worked up by the thought of them doing their dirty dirty deeds.