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Date Posted: Sunday, June 08, 23:50:41
Author: Danielle Ni Dhighe
Subject: IRSCNA: Homophobia Is Never Acceptable

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

8 June 2008
Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America

Homophobia Is Never Acceptable

On behalf of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement, the Irish
Republican Socialist Committees of North America condemn the
homophobic comments made by the Democratic Unionist Party's Iris
Robinson on BBC Radio Ulster.

Robinson, an elected member of the Northern Ireland Assembly and a
member of the Assembly's Health Committee, responded to a violent
homophobic attack on a gay man in Newtownabbey by calling for gay
people to seek psychiatric treatment. This came after referring to gay
people as an "abomination" last week.

The DUP's website credits Robinson with wanting "to better the lives
and living conditions of all her constituents", but clearly this
doesn't extend to her constituents who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or
transgendered.

It's especially ignorant for a member of the Assembly's Health
Committee to make suggestions that fly in the face of the established
expert opinion of the psychological and psychiatric professions that
homosexuality is not a mental illness.

We condemn violence against people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or
transgendered, we condemn the homophobic beliefs of Iris Robinson and
the reactionary political party she represents, and we condemn anyone
who promotes an agenda where homophobia is acceptable. We say that
homophobia is never acceptable. The only thing that needs to be cured
is bigotry.

# # #

Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America
PO Box 901479
Kansas City MO 64190-1479
USA
irscna@irsm.org
http://www.irscna.org/
http://www.irsm.org/irsm.html

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