Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Today the Christian Institute opened the next phase in the Religious Bigots War Against Queers (UK branch). Christian organisations and their friends in the Lords have been trying to scupper the Civil Partnership Bill since the Government announced it was going to happen. The faithful old method they'd used in debates such as the age of consent (someone who looks old enough that even Deuteronomy would call them 'Grandad' and foams incoherently for half an hour about buggery) no longer works so they've had to use different techniques for the same desired effect. Namely, claiming that a Civil Partnership Bill unfairly discriminates in favour of gays and wreck the readings of the Bill by adding many clauses to broaden the definition of 'civil partnership' to include almost everyone, so the bill collapses.

Which leads to the CI's advert in The Times today (evil evil .pdf format I'm afraid). I'd be slightly inclined to agree with them if they hadn't become extremely concerned by the plight of non-married couples only when gay marriage became a possibility. What they can't answer is if they are so concerned about this, why aren't they pushing for seperate lesgislation for the rights of, as in this example, carers? Trying to broaden a civil partnership bill to cover the rights of non-gay people is rather like demanding that raspberries taste more like roast beef. Of course they don't fool anyone for a moment. Take their coverage of the Gender Recognition Bill, concerned almost entirely with trying to make sure that Parliament grants vicars the right to carry on discriminating.

Doesn't it make you nostalgic for the days when your enemies were at least open about their blinkered unthinking prejudice?

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