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A step too far by Stonewall

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Why? Pls explain your observations, because from where I am standing they hand out these `awards` to individuals who openly display bigotry.

Why don't they try to do something positive like handing out awards to people who nurse people with AIDs?

'Bigotry awards' are offensive and does no-one any practical good. How many orphans does their antics clothe and feed? None!
 
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Why don't they try to do something positive like handing out awards to people who nurse people with AIDs?
They do.
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'Bigotry awards' are offensive and does no-one any practical good. How many orphans does their antics clothe and feed? None!
I don't know, shaming people who say, and continue to say offensive things may help make them aware of what they are saying.

If they were to to change their ways and stop being offensive, spreading dangerous untruths, it would benefit society as a whole.
 
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We can only hope Stonewall hear your plea to them...

Hey at least Stonewall "lies" don't get people killed, [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse].
 
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Why don't they try to do something positive like handing out awards to people who nurse people with AIDs?

'Bigotry awards' are offensive and does no-one any practical good. How many orphans does their antics clothe and feed? None!


Easy solution would be a world which isn't faced with the bile of bigotry in the first place then groups such as Stonewall would have no reason to exist. Simples.

Religious types are the most thin skinned creatures, they are quite happy to dish out the moral values, however the biggest percentage of them do not live up to their own standards. It's is simply a case of the Sunday face as opposed to the bog standard weekly one.

btw, referring to same sex marriage as a `grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right,` is simply a bigoted statement, wouldn't you agree?
 
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Why don't they try to do something positive like handing out awards to people who nurse people with AIDs?

'Bigotry awards' are offensive and does no-one any practical good. How many orphans does their antics clothe and feed? None!

Can I ask Lismore, since you are in doubt of Stonewalls charitable work, what charities do you subscribe to, what pro-active activities do you spend your time on?
 
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Bigotted? No
Brash? Maybe
Bold? Yes

But there again, a lot of the comments made on these threads can be a wee bit rushed...kinda Bish Bash Bosh!
 
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Bigotted? No

Some "religious" types - Christian or otherwise - are bigotted. Some are not. I would hope most tend towards the "not", but it would be rather foolish to pretend that the bigots don't exist.

Of course, it's worth bearing in mind that at the same awards ceremony which saw Keith O'Brien named as "bigot of the year," Giles Fraser - erstwhile canon at St. Paul's - was named "hero of the year."
 
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Correct, so why the fuss when a bigot receives an accolade for something he clearly is?
 
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Correct, so why the fuss when a bigot receives an accolade for something he clearly is?

Because although some people like to behave and speak in a way that suggests they're bigoted, they don't actually like to be called bigoted.

Of course, there is an answer to that... (To put it another way - I've no objection to people being homophobic, or racist, or sexist, or transphobic, or biphobic, or generally bigotted...just so long as they keep it behind closed doors away from where impressionable children might see them...)
 
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