FreedomAndTruth Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 12:53:28 PM GMT Facebook
Anyone who feels strongly enough about freedom of speech should allow the remarks made about homosexuality by Iris Robinson MP to remain unpunished.
You can vote here:http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Iris-is-right/
Hopefully it will encourage other MPs not to be afraid to share their views in future.
tags: Iris Robinson, 'gay' rights (all tags)
by TonyH on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 02:03:52 PM GMT
by FreedomAndTruth on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 05:35:39 PM GMT
We do respect freedom of expression which is why you get to post here.
Tugging forelock this end.
We do not respect bigoted stupidy and the villification of our family members, friends, fellow countrymen and fellow man and so employ our "freedom of expression" to condemn it.
Glad to hear it, but most people no longer know the difference between robust discussion and what you call "bigoted stupidity".
They have been trained like Pavlovian dogs to respond to any criticism of homosexuals with savage, hateful retorts.
The Hon. Member was answering questions put to her and answered honestly - a view shared exactly by millions - perhaps the majority.
Would you rather she told lies?
She stood up for what she believes is right and I commend her for it.
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by jkitleft on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 05:53:30 PM GMT
by FreedomAndTruth on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 06:43:06 PM GMT
Wow, you're prolific. Do you have a website? It must have a zillion pages.
The fact is that war has been waged on family life, Christianity, free speech, etc. for decades.
Look at this part of the agenda from 20 years ago, entitled "The Overhauling of Straight America"
It is a blueprint for conditioning Americans to accept homosexuality as normal.
It starts with these words:
"The first order of business is desensitization of the American public concerning gays and gay rights. Todesensitize the public is to help it view homosexuality with indifference instead of with keen emotion."
And explains how. Here are excerpts.
"Talk about gays and gayness as loudly and as often as possible. The principle behind this advice issimple: almost any behavior begins to look normal if you are exposed to enough of it at close quartersand among your acquaintances."
"The way to benumb raw sensitivities about homosexuality is to have a lot of people talk a great dealabout the subject in a neutral or supportive way. Open and frank talk makes the subject seem lessfurtive, alien, and sinful, more above-board."
"The main thing is to talk about gayness until the issue becomes thoroughly tiresome."
"the imagery of sex should be downplayed and gay rights should be reduced to an abstract social question as much as possible. First let the camel get his nose inside thetent -- and only later his unsightly derriere!"
"Where we talk is important. The visual media, film and television, are plainly the most powerfulimage-makers in Western civilization. The average American household watches over seven hours ofTV daily. Those hours open up a gateway into the private world of straights, through which a Trojan horse might be passed. As far as desensitization is concerned, the medium is the message -- of normalcy.....But thisshould be just the beginning of a major publicity blitz by gay America."
"Against the mighty pull of institutional Religion one must set the mightier draw of Science and Public Opinion (the shield and word of that accursed “secular humanism”). Such an unholy alliance has worked well against churches before, on such topics as divorce and abortion. With enough open talk about the prevalence and acceptability of homosexuality, that alliance can work again here."
"Portray gays as victims, not as aggressive challengers. In any campaign to win over the public, gaysmust be cast as victims in need of protection so that straights will be inclined be reflex to assume therole of protector. If gays are presented, instead, as a strong and prideful tribe promoting a rigidlynonconformist and deviant lifestyle, they are more likely to be seem as a public menace that justifiesresistance and oppression. For that reason, we must forego the temptation to strut our “gay pride”publicly when it conflicts with the Gay Victim image."
"Straight viewers must be able to identify with gays as victims. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson must be given noextra excuses to say “they are not like us.” To this end, the persons featured in the public campaignshould be decent and upright, appealing and admirable by straight standards, completelyunexceptionable in appearance -- in a word, they should be indistinguishable from the straights wewould like to reach."
"to offset the increasingly bad press that these times have brought to homosexual men and women, thecampaign should paint gays as superior pillars of society. Yes, yes, we know -- this trick is so old itcreaks. Other minorities use it all the time in ads that announce proudly, “Did you know that this GreatMan (or Woman) was ________?” But the message is vital for all those straights who still picture gaysas “queer” people -- shadowy, lonesome, frail, drunken, suicidal, child-snatching misfits."
"long after other gay ads have become commonplace -- it will be time to get tough with remaining opponents. To be blunt, they must be vilified."
"The public should be shown images of ranting homophobes whose secondary traits and beliefs disgustmiddle America. These images might include the Ku Klux Klan demanding that gays be burned alive orcastrated; bigoted southern ministers drooling with hysterical hatred to a degree that looks both comicaland deranged; menacing punks, thugs, and convicts speaking coolly about the “fags” they have killed orwould like to kill; a tour of Nazi concentration camps where homosexuals were tortured and gassed."
"Because most straightforward appeals are impossible, the National Gay Task Force has had tocultivate quiet backroom liaisons with broadcast companies and newsrooms in order to make sure thatissues important to the gay community receive some coverage"
"If all went as planned, the somewhat desensitized public and the major networks themselves would bereadied for the next step of our program."
"The gay community should join forces wit other civil liberties groups of repeatable cast to promotebland messages about America the Melting Pot"
"These images [of ranting homophobes] should be combined with those of their gay victims by a method propagandists call the“bracket technique.” For example, for a few seconds an unctuous beady-eyed Southern preacher isseen, pounding the pulpit in rage about “those sick, abominable creatures.” While his tirade continuesover the soundtrack, the picture switches to pathetic photos of gays who look decent, harmless, andlikable; and then we cut back to the poisonous face of the preacher, and so forth. The contrast speaksfor itself. The effect is devastating."
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I have no hatred of those who engage in homosexual activities, but I do hate society being engineered by a small minority for their own aims.
What about YOU?
by jkitleft on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 08:25:37 PM GMT
by FreedomAndTruth on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 08:31:39 PM GMT
Charming as ever....and the answer to my question is what?
You like being conditioned so that your whole being resonates with one particular group or not?
by jkitleft on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 09:08:55 PM GMT
by FreedomAndTruth on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 10:01:02 PM GMT
My jape about your prolific writing was meant to be good-humoured. Get a sense of humour!
The rest of your comment is just mashed potato as usual.
So you like being brainwashed. Fine. I don't and I still know right from wrong.
by jkitleft on Thu Jul 24, 2008 at 11:12:29 AM GMT
I think your last comment says more about you than it does about me, as you did not address one point I made.
Saying my comment is mashed potato is just a statement and not an argument. Purely subjective, and I suspect ideosyncratic.
Debate me. If you're going to say my arguments are crap (me thinks thou doth protest to much), then please explain why. Point by point. Coherently. Not just with subjective reasoning.
by FreedomAndTruth on Thu Jul 24, 2008 at 05:24:18 PM GMT
Sorry, but I don't have time at present and anyway - is there any point in debating with someone who doesn't care that he has been part of a mass mind-control programme.
No matter your opinion on homosexual behaviour, you should at least be mad about some of the tactics used by some elements in the 'gay' movement.
by TonyH on Thu Jul 24, 2008 at 12:23:19 PM GMT
by jkitleft on Thu Jul 24, 2008 at 01:54:24 PM GMT
by TonyH on Thu Jul 24, 2008 at 02:51:23 PM GMT
by FreedomAndTruth on Thu Jul 24, 2008 at 05:28:39 PM GMT
It's a good acronym as I do need to lose a few pounds.
If you are 'throwing back in my face' a clear agenda of mass brainwashing, then fine, like I said already, that's up to you.
For some reason you all insist on making it a religious issue. There is far more to it than that.
Are you suggesting I'm a Neo-Nazi?
Pathetic if you are. Shameful, actually.
by FreedomAndTruth on Thu Jul 24, 2008 at 05:43:06 PM GMT
If I was on a train and I saw some drunken Nazi Jerk telling a mixed race girl that she was a mongrel and he was frightening her. I'd stop him. Forcefully, if necessary (and he was pretty small!!). Matter of fact - I once did.
Well done. Naturally, I approve. It's the sort of thing that you're likely to get into trouble for these days under Labour's constant sucking up to the criminal element.
I can't see what it has to do with this argument though.
As I believe the Bible, I believe we are all descended from Noah and his family, so we are all related in one human race, therefore I'm not a racist.
I know you're trying to tease me. If someone was being beaten up for being a homosexual, I would also love to get stuck into the idiot that was doing that - and after he had been carted off to the police station/hospital, tell the homosexual person about the gospel and consequence of sin.
I think it is ME being judged here, not being the judge.
It is right to be "our brother's keeper," I'm glad you agree. To me that is to warn against sin, but to most people posting here it is to encourage them to carry on in their sins.
Who of us is truly being their brother's keeper?
by TonyH on Thu Jul 24, 2008 at 06:24:24 PM GMT
by FreedomAndTruth on Thu Jul 24, 2008 at 08:31:01 PM GMT
>>>That's only if you mistakenly believe that being gay is a sin - that it is an immoral choice. It is not.<<<
On what basis are you insisting it is not an immoral choice?>>>It has been proven again and again that it is innate. For gay people, the "sin" you refer to is simply "being".<<<
Actually, that is not true. Peter Tatchell wrote last month that it's not that simple.>>>I'm not at all "conditioned" and I resent the accusation but can clearly see where it comes from.<<<
Are you saying that "The Overhauling of Straight America" has not been carried out or it has but it doesn't matter? Surely you must agree that mass conditioning has been going on - how else could such a change of opinion have been achieved in such a short period of time?>>>The conditioning you're rubbing up against is that a lot of us here have a sense of what's fair. Undermining gay peoples' right to simply be - is unfair to us.<<<
It's not about being, it's about doing. Most societies through history have tabooed same-sex activity for the benefit of the tribe (for various reasons) - it had nothing to do with discrimination for the sake of it.
Life tends to seem unfair to people who live the wrong way (see my next answer).
>>>You may very well be a lovely man with many decent tendancies and people who care about him etc but you're damn wrong about this and are adding to the already high pile of crap people are forced to deal with.<<<
Whether or not I'm lovely is for others to decide, but being lovely is not as important as doing right.
I'm not saying it's easy to struggle with sexual temptations. I struggled with alcohol temptation for a decade. I believe I am genetically predisposed to being an alcoholic, but the Almighty's grace enabled me to come clean. Should I have told myself that my genes have made me alcoholic, therefore I must not resist temptation? Of course not!
A) Temptation is everywhere
B) This life is a testing period after which judgment is made. The world couldn't work otherwise.
C) We have a spiritual aspect whereby we can resist temptation: our spiritual side is a vital part of our being which is under attack from all angles.
by ppbarrett on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 02:06:27 PM GMT
by FreedomAndTruth on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 05:18:11 PM GMT
You're really winding me up now.
Diddums. Freedom of expression is either for all or nobody.
On your petition, you've signed your name adveritising your website against your name.
I made a mistake actually. My website is thelabourparty.org
Thanks for allowing me to correct it here.
A petition, no matter how ridiculous, is not there to shamelessly plug your own side interest
And neither is it there to be abused by Labour supporters as seems to be the case.
No wonder you allowed the leadership to lie to you about the EU referendum if that's how much respect you have for polls.
by jkitleft on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 05:37:25 PM GMT
by FreedomAndTruth on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 05:49:11 PM GMT
What proportion of the UK population wants out the EU altogether?
I don't suppose the Express poll is representative where 94.7% want out last time I looked.
by jkitleft on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 02:13:16 PM GMT
by jkitleft on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 02:14:54 PM GMT
by FreedomAndTruth on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 05:45:47 PM GMT
by Free Radical on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 06:49:17 PM GMT
by FreedomAndTruth on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 07:25:44 PM GMT
Mmm, very radical!
If you read the home page, you'll see why I started it.
You should also be annoyed at being lied to and betrayed and taken effective measures to remedy the situation.
I was a Labour voter for many years, but now must sadly expose the lies - they've gone too far.
Don't blame the Party for not registering the name - it belonged to someone else up to last year and they let it lapse.
Anyway, I reckoned the time for debate was over at Labour's end, as they have repeatedly shown their disdain for the views of the people.
by NorthernMonkey on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 09:30:33 PM GMT
by alexhilton on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 11:57:13 PM GMT
by FreedomAndTruth on Thu Jul 24, 2008 at 12:14:37 AM GMT
by NorthernMonkey on Thu Jul 24, 2008 at 07:37:12 AM GMT
by FreedomAndTruth on Thu Jul 24, 2008 at 10:25:29 AM GMT
Perhaps because Tories are rather similar to Labour nowadays, especially with CMD at the helm.
I offer a new way of thinking. No more the false paradigm of right vs left, but right vs wrong.
I think Tory trolls are loathsome, vile, disgusting, unnatural and they make me nauseous.
Only the heterosexual ones obviously, for legal reasons.
Seriously though - see how society is being manipulated to be splintered; balkanised?
Divide and rule is what all the mainstream parties offer because that's what the real bosses - with global corporate and banking interests - demand.
For this reason, Labour/Tory/LibDem can never again claim to put the people first.
This is why I get upset. Nothing personal against you N.Monkey or anyone else here.