Dear friends,
Stonewall, the LGBT (Lesbian, gay, bisexual and
Transsexual) lobby, which presently has the British
government in its thrall, appear to be accused of the very
thing they profess to be campaigning against with their
ubiquitous poster, SOME PEOPLE ARE GAY. GET OVER IT! [1] And
that is bullying. [2] If people are not prepared to accept
homosexuality as being normal, there are a number options
open to Stonewall to force the British population into
submission, ranging from the threat of prison, loss of
occupation, having your children taken into care, being
fined and to being invited to the annual Stonewall Awards
for public humiliation. [3]
Stonewall, with their Annual Awards evening being held
at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, this Thursday,
1st November, have nominated for their ‘Bigot of
the Year’ award Alan Craig of the Christian
Peoples’ Alliance, Simon Lokodo, Lord Maginnis,
Cardinal Keith O'Brien and Archbishop Philip
Tartaglia.
Ben Summerskill, Stonewall’s chief executive,
denies the accusation of bullying, and claims that anyone
who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own
opinions and prejudices more than deserves the stigma of
homophobic bigot.
He claims to represent a victim minority group who
apparently are being persecuted to the point of extinction,
on the same scale as Jews in the holocaust and black slaves
working in the plantations, and would suggest that the
merest raising of an eyebrow towards homosexuality was
equivalent to supporting present day homosexuals being executed in far
off places like Iran and Africa. One of Stonewall’s
founder members, Sir Ian McKellen, is presently working his
way through every UK education establishment ,whispering
this accusation into the mind of every child who would
reject homosexuality , and saying that they should instead
all be kind to one another [4].
If such oppression is true, Stonewall are certainly
not short of friends in government, or cash; a ticket to the
Stonewall bash on November 1st costs
£155.
Those nominated for the bigot of the Year, ever since
the awards began, in 2006, have included Lord Devon, the
18th Earl of Devon, who refused to permit civil partnership
celebrations as well as weddings at Powderham Castle, his
ancestral seat; Lillian Ladele, the Islington registrar who
refused to perform civil partnerships; Patricia McKeever,
editor of the Catholic Truth website and newsletter, who
‘outed’ Catholic priests.
Most of them are Christians, many of whom are bishops,
whom our Queen promised to protect during her Coronation
oath in 1953.
Amongst those nominated were, in 2007, the Archbishop
of Birmingham who spoke out against treating children
needing adoption as goods and services for gays; in 2008
Bishop of Motherwell, the Roman Catholic bishop, who stated
that the gays had insinuated themselves into the Holocaust
week.
In 2009, the Bishop of Winchester was nominated as
‘Bigot of the Year’ after he said people should
be free to question whether homosexuality is a fixed trait.
Anthony Priddis, the Bishop of Hereford, who withdrew
a job offer to a youth worker because he was gay and was
subsequently fined £47,000, was invited to come and
receive the award in person in 2007. Ben Summerskill told an
audience of 400 gathered at the Victoria Albert museum in
London that the Bishop of Hereford had been invited but
claimed to be on holiday.
Those chosen are now presented in absentia with the
award, but if Stonewall ever become powerful enough this
could well change, with those selected, being forced to
attend, perhaps even with placards around their necks,
saying “I am a filthy homophobic swine.”
Faced with the charge of bullying, Summerskill claims
"We have never called anyone a bigot just because they
disagreed with us."…. "All the nominees
have gone well beyond what anyone normal would call a decent
level of public discourse.” Indeed Ben has said in the
past that he has nothing against temperate expressions of
disagreement. So how does he define what is normal, decent
and temperate?
May I suggest that it is nothing less than a warm -
but measured and restrained -standing ovation for the sexual
behaviour of Liam Nolan, a Stonewall champion of diversity.
He is now a government educational advisor and Head teacher
of Perry Beeches School, at Sandwell Park, who left his wife
for the gay life and was fined £1000 with £1500
court costs for performing an indecent act with another man
in a public beauty spot.
Or maybe it is the behaviour of these two blushing
brides, who are the face of Boris Johnson’s brave new
world of gay marriage, relegating us who are faithfully
married to our wives children to the Stone Age.
Or maybe it is the normal and temperate behaviour of
James Rennie, chief executive of LGBT Youth Scotland,
established in November 1989 as the Stonewall Youth Project
by members of the LGBT community in Edinburgh.
Or maybe the behaviour of men who have sex with men
parading in this year’s World Pride, with Stonewall
marching four square with them. Maybe this is all temperate,
decent, normal, dignified and proud.
How soon before the following display of all things
temperate, decent and normal comes to London, let alone a
city near you?
WARNING : but remember, I am not exposing
those things done in the dark and of which Christians should
not even talk about, but things done in the brought light of
day and which we and our children are going to be forced to
accept as normal, decent and temperate - or
else!
Finally, there are worse things than being nominated
Stonewall Bigot of the Year, and that is to be nominated
Stonewall hero of the year, like Mr Roger Crouch, last year
at the 2011 Stonewall Awards.
When Sir Ian McKellen and Ben Summerskill ask the
question, “ Has it ever crossed your mind that you
might be gay?” of people like Dominic Crouch and his
father, Roger, the consequences can be
catastrophic.
In 2010 Dominic was only fifteen when he committed
suicide after throwing himself from the top of a parking
lot.
His father, at his funeral, gave a moving tribute to
the son he loved. [4]
Ben Summerskill, Stonewall's chief executive, who
worked closely with the couple, said "It would have
been terribly easy for them just to immediately move on and
not consider how they might help to change other people's
lives.
"We don't know whether Dominic was gay or not,
but one of the sad truths of so many similar cases is that
parents tend to go into complete denial, even when there is
quite significant evidence as to why their child committed
suicide. In these cases, those parents are going through all
the emotions of discovering their child might have been
gay……”
Stonewall on their website said that since Since
Dominic’s death, Roger dedicated himself tirelessly to
working to raise awareness of homophobic bullying in
schools.[5]
In November 2011, two weeks after being presented with
Stonewall’s Hero of Year Award, at the Victoria and
Albert museum, Roger Crouch himself committed suicide
[6]
Mrs Crouch found the 55-year-old hanged in the
family's garage.
She revealed that the double loss was difficult to
comprehend and equally difficult to deal with.
Mrs Crouch said an ordinary thing, like going for a
nice walk on a sunny day, was no longer the same because she
would return to the house and her son and husband would not
be there when she got back.
"I almost can't believe the situation I find
myself in."
A mother wrote to me recently saying
“Dear David, I see even in my family with
Christian beliefs that my only son is saying he is an
atheist after pressure from peer groups at school (just to
be accepted and considered normal just like everyone else).
He says now that homosexuality is normal. I have to fight
these ideas. My weapon is prayers.
I do not know but I have to trust God for bringing him
back.
This is the new modern society trashing our children
even in a
Catholic school. It began last year when the school
decided to open a debate on the existence of God. I emailed
the school saying I did not understand why a Catholic school
was opening a debate on the existence of God. The following
day the subject was only to express your personal beliefs,
presumably because there is no absolute objective truth.
The worm is already in the apple and only God can
save. My son is brought up in a loving, Christian family but
the outside pressure is unbearable and the kids cannot cope
with the brain washing.”
David Skinner
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