tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post832721705170717776..comments2024-02-26T00:59:26.907-08:00Comments on Ana the Imp: Disagreement is GayAnastasia F-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-60096481779992966222012-07-08T15:54:00.988-07:002012-07-08T15:54:00.988-07:00An ever declining number.An ever declining number.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-12394404376036095102012-07-05T18:46:23.266-07:002012-07-05T18:46:23.266-07:00I really think this has been blown out of all prop...I really think this has been blown out of all proportion. Aside of the theological or legal perspective, how many people actually marry in the UK, again?Rehan Qayoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02391797858691917631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-44167691889201022562012-07-01T16:07:21.998-07:002012-07-01T16:07:21.998-07:00Well said, Lama. What I am criticising, though, i...Well said, Lama. What I am criticising, though, is not a minority but a mode of expression, one that would seek to destroy dissent by ugly invective. Intolerance is intolerance, no matter what direction it comes from.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-47601781594474287592012-06-30T07:06:40.364-07:002012-06-30T07:06:40.364-07:00One must be careful when speaking about a minority...One must be careful when speaking about a minority when they are part of a majority. OK we cannot deny that most politicians use the card of gay marriage to get the votes of the gay such as Obama. Anyways, if any one of us were in the gay's shoes we would want rights and we would call for gay marriage or would we not? It's always easy to criticize the minority. I'm not encouraging anything and in my religion it is forbidden, but we cannot judge others. For maybe one day we will become the minority.Young Arab Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10216421472372159846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-49864198613987784772012-06-28T16:09:10.563-07:002012-06-28T16:09:10.563-07:00Joe, that's a good point about the division in...Joe, that's a good point about the division in gay opinion, something we don't often hear about. It's an observation that I made in a previous post on the subject. I have gay friends who can see through the shallow gesture politics here.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-34933612882778797172012-06-28T16:06:32.092-07:002012-06-28T16:06:32.092-07:00I'm sure you've heard of Peter Tatchell, C...I'm sure you've heard of Peter Tatchell, Calvin. Where once was Oscar Wilde there is now this earnest and tiresome bore.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-52236431390949599832012-06-28T16:03:58.181-07:002012-06-28T16:03:58.181-07:00Seymour, I sometimes wonder if the Labour Party ca...Seymour, I sometimes wonder if the Labour Party can tell its arse from its elbow! <br /><br />The thing is about the LDs they have no big ideas just lots of silly small ones. What a contrast they are with classic liberalism, what a contrast with the Liberal Party of the nineteenth century. They seem to me to be neither one thing nor the other, little more than a political glee club for the chattering classes.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-2194301653718381462012-06-28T15:59:01.843-07:002012-06-28T15:59:01.843-07:00Anthony, yes in some ways it is.Anthony, yes in some ways it is.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-74534752308209053772012-06-27T18:58:53.774-07:002012-06-27T18:58:53.774-07:00I love your opening gambit!
If there's one th...I love your opening gambit!<br /><br />If there's one thing I've taken from the debate about gay marriage, it's that the issue divides gay communities as much as any other communities, with many gay people coming out to say that they don't want the agendas behind the move to be enacted in their name.<br /><br />On the other hand, a Roman Catholic journalist called Damian Thompson said that RC and Anglican bishops had bent over backwards to accomodate left-wing agendas in the last four decades that their anxieties about gay marriage splitting churches apart are merely chickens coming home to roost.<br /><br />I think the most sensible comment on the issue came from Rabbi Schmoley Boteach, who said that if there's a crisis in marriage today it's because heterosexual people aren't getting married or are splitting up for reasons that wouldn't have rocked the boat a couple of generations ago.Joe Danielshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13813771610543530480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-8366215375761468922012-06-27T18:53:27.221-07:002012-06-27T18:53:27.221-07:00Prison rape is now the most common un-prosecuted &...Prison rape is now the most common un-prosecuted 'crime' in America. Or perhaps some progressives consider it a privilege? <br /><br />When the industrial and financial titans of the late 19th Century began to employ the mass communication tools of the 20th, techniques were crude and direct. The manipulation of the public mind has become far more sophisticated in 100 years, and the purposes of the elites more occult. Any particular campaign might be a direct effort to shape social patterns, or simply a diversionary tactic to distract from more sinister goals. <br /><br />Our minds are under constant assault from conception to cremation. It is not hard to imagine that those who use such methods do not much value our individuality. Those who care for liberty consider skepticism a worthwhile defense.<br /><br />That being said, I used to enjoy the wit and creativity of my gay friends. In the days when their sexuality was criminalized, many seemed to possess an extra energy they diverted into forms of expression given novelty by their non-standard worldview. <br /><br />Now we seem to be exposed more to the opinionations of what I might call 'the common or garden queer' whose ideas and attitudes are no more amusing or original than those of any other aggressive sub-culture. Like some of fashion's more outrageous costumes, they seem more attractive in the closet than out in the street.Calvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10640148105202971907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-29641340703713843792012-06-27T18:39:01.961-07:002012-06-27T18:39:01.961-07:00"There are only two things wrong with Britain..."There are only two things wrong with Britain’s Liberal Democrat Party – everything it says and everything it does."<br /><br />I'm sure they'll manage a third thing by tomorrow morning.<br /><br />"In the past I never really paid that much attention to it, a sort of political version of Burdian’s Ass, a refuge for people who have neither the wit nor character to decide between the left and the right, forever locked in a mushy middle."<br /><br />Would you say the Lib Dems were a centrist party? To me they seem more left-wing than Labour.Seymour Clufleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18346292043731203341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-65202952944931192552012-06-27T18:35:34.532-07:002012-06-27T18:35:34.532-07:00It seems that the British Democratic Party is much...It seems that the British Democratic Party is much like the American democratic Party, Bill Clinton Swung the closet door wide open.anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02931330128135957439noreply@blogger.com