Current location:	Edinburgh
Current mood:	aggravated

Homophobia in the House of Commons
 Sorry if this has been posted before but I had to post this. She is very religious and was stating her beliefs. I support her right to believe whatever she wants, but what she said encites hatred and should not be tolerated considering her position of influence. Also, contrary to my previous entry - there IS a law against what she said, it is against the law to incite hatred racially or in reference to sexual preference or with regards to gender. The only thing that may protect her comments is parlimentary priviledge.

(copy/paste link below to read more, insert link wasn't working)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2008/06/police_to_investigate_iris_rob.html

*Just to make my views clear so I don't have to reply to every comment below, wow this has caused some debate, thats really great*    Yes, I do believe in Iris Robinson's right to believe gays are disgusting and evil. But I also say that if you want to believe the world is going to end in 2012 thats fine. But if you believe either of those things your wrong and delusional and therefor should not be in a position where you can convince others of your nonsense. This woman has influence over the people who allowed her to be voted in, not only the people who actually voted for her, to me this is worrying because she is likely to base her actions on her misguided beliefs, beliefs which honest very few people share these days. I would like to know what people would have said if we replace 'homosexuals' with any other minority, such as Jews, Muslims or mixed race people? In my opinion (no, I do not speak for anyone else) her views belong on a soap box or on the internet, not in the House of Commons, I'd like to think we had developed beyond that.

 
 Last week in the London House of Commons the Northern Ireland DUP 'First
Lady' (aka Minister for Homophobia) Iris Robinson made a third anti-gay outburst in which she said:  

"There can be no viler act, apart from homosexuality and sodomy,
 than sexually abusing innocent children"

 Please sign the e-petition to have her reprimanded by the Prime Minister.
 There are already 12,000 signatories and the deadline is 9th August. Lets
 put and end to bigotry, discrimination and fear.

     http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Robinson-Gay/