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Hephaestion
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posted 01 March 2005 12:02 AM

queerday.com reports:

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If they're forced to choose between offending Muslims and gays, British politicians would apparently rather offend gays. The U.K. doesn't have a law protecting people from discrimination on the basis of religion or sexual orientation. But rather than pass both together, lawmakers decided to protect religion only.
Downing Street fears that Muslims, whose votes could be the key to saving the seats of many Labour MPs, might feel offended if they were "lumped together" with gay people. Nice.

The Times online

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kuri
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posted 01 March 2005 04:24 AM

Ugh. Putting aside the moral repugnance of this move, I doubt it would even do that much to shift voter preferences amongst Muslims. One more reason to tell New Labour to go to hell. I bet they figure gays will vote for them anyway, though.

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Hephaestion
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posted 01 March 2005 07:42 AM

Of course. Just like gays are "naturally" going to vote for the Democrats... aren't they???

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Stockholm
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posted 01 March 2005 04:33 PM

Actually don't a lot of gays in the UK vote for the Liberal Democrats? I think its been a bit of a cliche that the Liberals in the UK have been the "gay party" since the days of Jeremy Thorpe and co.

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Hephaestion
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posted 01 March 2005 05:01 PM

Ummmmm, yaaa... I was being kind've snarky. I guess I should'a used the "

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Nemo
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posted 04 March 2005 02:35 PM

Seems to me that this is a question of separation of church and state. Seems all europe are scared more of the muslims though.

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