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Date Posted: Tue, Jun 10 2008, 12:28:09 PDT
Author: baslamak
Subject: Mrs Robinson: You along with the rest of the world need to remember the Pink Triangle

Last Friday [6/6/08] I blogged an obituary of English gay rights
activist Paul Patrick, In a forward to the obituary I wrote 'One of
the more unfortunately blow backs from the north of Ireland's
troubles, is that unlike the rest of western Europe, where many of the
big societal issues were debated through and legislated upon from the
late 1960s onwards. The north of Ireland, as far as the more prominent
of these issues were concerned was passed by; and they are only now
coming to the fore. In many ways the north of Ireland is still in the
dark ages as far as Gay Rights, Comprehensive education and a Woman's
Right to Choose is concerned.[I could have added racism] Whilst some
legislation has been placed on the Statute book, the northern
political elite's attitudes to the aforementioned issues are very
reactionary, at best even progressive political party's like Sinn Fein
prefer to side step what they regard as the thorny problem of a
woman's right to choose, due to there fear of the Roman Catholic
church's reactionary influence upon a section of their electorate.

Little did I know at the very same time I was posting up Paul
Patrick's obit on Organized Rage, Iris Robinson, the wife of the north
of Irelands newly nominated 'First Minister' Peter Robinson, and a
leading Democratic Unionist Party politician in her own right, was
appearing on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show condemning homosexuality as
an abomination and adding helpfully, that "she knows a very lovely
psychiatrist who works with me in my offices and his Christian
background is that he tries to help homosexuals - trying to turn
[them] away from what they are engaged in, I'm happy to put any
homosexual in touch with this gentleman and I have met people who have
turned around and become heterosexuals." *

read more at--
Organized Rage
http://organizedrage.blogspot.com/

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