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CEO of IBM UK & Ireland, on winning the Stonewall top employer award:

“We have done much to re-evaluate and strengthen our LGB strategy as part of our overall commitment to diversity. We’ve looked more closely at the LGB network group – its value proposition and its life-cycle – to ensure that it continues to deliver value, both to the corporation and to its members.

“At IBM, we pride ourselves on delivering a working environment which reflects equality of opportunity and experience for all. Diversity constitutes our character, our identity and ultimately our success – it is in our DNA.”

No, I don’t have a fucking clue what it means either. Think I might email this to the Plain English Campaign as an early contender for their Golden Bull awards.

Stephen Green, leader of militant fuckwit religious extremists ‘Christian Voice’*:

“The Bible calls for the ultimate penalty for sodomy (Lev 20:13) and for rape (Deut 22:25), and our Lord upheld the death penalty when He called for the accusers of the woman caught in adultery to cast the first stone (John 8:7) – if, that is, they were not implicated in adultery themselves.

“The contrast between our politicians and those of Uganda could not be more stark. A Parliamentarian in Uganda is trying to protect his nation’s children. The House of Commons of the United Kingdom is trying to corrupt ours. Which country is the more civilised, I wonder, in the eyes of Almighty God?”

Well then, my dear boy, to bring out an old cliché: if you like it so much why don’t you go live there?

*not to be confused with militant fuckwit religious extremists the ‘Christian Institute’

Marc Mutty, public affairs director for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland on the repeal of the Maine gay marriage bill:

“We went up against tremendous odds… We all know we were the little guy going up against the big guy, but we prevailed.”

How on Earth did the poor little tiny Roman Catholic church manage to survive all that? Must have been tough.

Jan Moir is an idiot.

A post-mortem revealed Stephen [Gately] died from acute pulmonary oedema, a build-up of fluid on his lungs.

Gately’s family have always maintained that drugs were not involved in the singer’s death, but [he] smoked cannabis on the night he died.

…

Another real sadness about Gately’s death is that it strikes another blow to the happy-ever-after myth of civil partnerships.

Gay activists are always calling for tolerance and understanding about same-sex relationships, arguing that they are just the same as heterosexual marriages. Not everyone, they say, is like George Michael.

Of course, in many cases this may be true. Yet the recent death of Kevin McGee, the former husband of Little Britain star Matt Lucas, and now the dubious events of Gately’s last night raise troubling questions about what happened.

What the fucking cockshit are you on about, woman?! Go and peddle your idiocy elsewhere, please.

David Cameron, leader of the UK’s Conservative Party, on Section 28 in July this year:

“I am sorry for Section 28. We got it wrong. It was an emotional issue. I hope you can forgive us.”

All well and good. The Conservatives say they’ve moved on from that issue.

Here’s the background for the politinerds out there:

Section 28 had the specific task of banning any promotion of homosexuality in schools. It had the actual effect of schools being afraid to even mention homosexuality (which had the unfortunate effect of there being essentially no sex education for young gays between 1988 and 2003, and people wonder why HIV prevalence is rising in 20-30 year old gays in the UK…)

Now, some of you barely any of you know that the Lithuanian government recently voted to enact a similar law, which goes as far as banning all mention of homosexuality in any media that is accessible to young people.

So, yesterday the EU waded in and told them that this is a bad thing, which could damage young gays by exposing them to bullying and denying them education and support where they need it. Now, in order to say something like this, the Members of the European Parliament have to vote on what they want to say to Lithuania, and how they should say it. It’s an extremely tedious process and I won’t bore you with the details.

Thankfully, the EU publishes the voting record of each of its MEPs. Which means we can have a look at all of Mr Cameron’s colleagues from the Conservative party, who are MEPs.

So, let’s see that list, in full, and check how they voted on whether to give the Lithuanians a slap on the wrist (remember, this is the complete list of UK Conservative MEPs):

• Geoffrey Van Orden Abstained
• Giles Chichester Abstained
• Roger Helmer Abstained
• Charles Tannock Abstained
• Robert Atkins Abstained
• Daniel Hannan (yes, that Daniel Hannan) Abstained
• Philip Bradbourn Abstained
• Kay Swinburne Abstained
• Martin Callanan Abstained
• James Nicholson Abstained
• Struan Stevenson Abstained
• Robert Sturdy No Vote Recorded
• Richard Ashworth Against
• Emma McClarkin Abstained
• Syed Kamall Abstained
• Julie Girling Abstained
• Malcolm Harbour Abstained
• Sajjad Karim Abstained
• Timothy Kirkhope No Vote Recorded
• Vicky Ford Abstained
• Nirj Deva Abstained
• Ashley Fox Abstained
• Jacqueline Foster Abstained
• Marina Yannakoudakis Abstained
• James Elles No Vote Recorded

Which makes me wonder exactly to what extent Mr Cameron actually supports the views he laid out back on July 1st.