Comments on: I have duly boycotted Tesco over ‘Pride Day’; but I have an uneasy feeling that its board are laughing all the way to the Tesco bank

By: Arthurleek

Arthurleek — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:05:00 +0000

could it be estrogen in the water supply?

By: Acleron

Acleron — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:54:00 +0000

The link again is

http://www.petertatchell.net/lgbt_rights/age_of_consent/index.htm

It is a very clear statement that your conclusion of Tachell’s beliefs are flat wrong.

You have made a startling declaration that applies to all homosexuals and all you can provide for proof is one person’s opinion. I suspect that you have latched onto that statement to reinforce your own prejudice, just as have you misconstrued Tatchell’s statements about the age of consent while disregarding his unambiguous statement.

Sorry but you make the claim, you back it up with evidence such as unbiased surveys carried out with comparison groups etc. Otherwise, all you have is your prejudice.

By: Acleron

Acleron — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:44:00 +0000

The definition of a cult doesn’t depend on numbers. What essential difference between the catholic church and a cult can you define?

By: David Armitage

David Armitage — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:21:00 +0000

It’s good to know that in these days of press freedom menaced by the PCA hate rants can still find a warm place in the sun. Last week we had threats of petrol bombs and brick because of a jokie ad, but this stirring up of hatred merits prosecution. While we’re waiting lets whistle a gay tune:
London Pride has been handed down to us,London Pride is a flower that’s free.London Pride means our own dear town to us,
And our pride is forever will be.
It got us through the blitz after all! Is Alf Garnett up for canonisation?

By: Charles Martel

Charles Martel — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:20:00 +0000

Well put, schmenz. Things that were regarded as insane 50 years ago have now been completely normalised. A massive amount of brainwashing has been going on. What’s sinister is how easily people have succumbed – even Catholics. I was called an ‘extremist’ this summer by my own Catholic sister for advocating the re-criminalisation of abortion and dating to criticise the great saint of our age, Barack Obama. My Catholic brother, a pillar of his parish, holds that abortion should be legal (though he personally disagrees with it!). When I dare to point out what the Church has always taught, they look right through me with a pitying stare. I think I am now the only one in my family who regards homosexual acts as depraved. For most people now, it seems, sodomy is simply splendid; buggery is beautiful (‘though I personally wouldn’t do it’)….

By: Jprholmes

Jprholmes — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

“Some christians” not “we christians”. I could explore in more detail about why what you wrote is irrational but it would be a waste of time. For what its worth i’m inclined to agree with the author of this article that it is not right that Tesco have removed funding for a charity in favor of a pressure group. I do however object to him effectively using the plight of a cancer charity as a vehicle to launch another tiresome attack on homosexuals. His opinion on the matter is insignificant, as is everyones. I pray that love will prevail in the end and that the preachers of hate will become yet further isolated. I shall follow the example of Dr Fatso cake face and boycott the catholic herald.

By: EditorCT

EditorCT — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:29:00 +0000

Nothing wrong with my browser. If you like you can reinstate the link for me to double-check. But I do not see how Tatchell’s well publicised pursuit of lower the age of consent to 14 and his remarks about nine year old can possibly lead anyone to think that he is anything but supportive of adult-child relationships (consenting children, of course…)

Yes, there is plenty of evidence about the link between homosexuality and children (I’ve already cited Alfred Kinsey) but – don’t laugh – since I am going to be out all day tomorrow I won’t be able to (or will be unlikely to have the time to) dig out some links for you. Get Googling!

Listen, pal. In your shoes, being mistaken for a “gay” due to your hostile response to each and every criticism of that “lifestyle”, I’d be taking another look at myself. And I certainly wouldn’t be laughing…

Luv ‘n stuff.

By: Acleron

Acleron — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:14:00 +0000

Link works for me, must be your browser.

So we have established that Tatchell does not support or approve of Adult-child sex. Good, glad we agree on at least that.

Now, I have reservations about the text you presented. Perhaps that is because I’m of an age that thinks kids should be brought up as I was, although intellectually I know that is impossible. But that is his opinion, openly stated and available for discussion. Is he going to now rush off and kidnap children to indoctrinate them in his belief?

’Homosexuals are drawn to children and this is widely known.’???

My first thought was that you really should go out more often. This is such obvious nonsense I am mildly surprised (not much these days) that you voiced such an opinion, you must have been laughed at before. Do you have any evidence, not opinions but real data?

As to my sexual orientation, I don’t quite see what it has to do with this discussion. As it happens, you are again laughably incorrect.

By: geoffreysmith1

geoffreysmith1 — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:51:00 +0000

I would have thought it was obvious that God did not make homosexuals because there is no such thing as a ‘gay’ gene in the human genome. If God had made homosexuals, He would be contradicting Himself, because He commanded our first parents ‘to increase and multiply and fill the earth. That is why He created our sexual faculty, and the reason for its existence.
No, the cause of homosexuality lies in the childhood environment. For reasons not yet properly understood, there are influences at that time that distort the natural sexual development of the individual and produce the objectively disordered condition of homosexuality. It is certainly not in accordance with the divine will, and was not ‘made’ by God.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:53:00 +0000

This is a disgraceful comment. I’m sure it is obvious and schmenz is deliberately trying to cause trouble, but I’ll spell it out anyway. Being homosexual does not mean being paedophile. I am so angry I’d better not say anything more.

(I see now this – the supposed link between homosexuality and paedophilia – has been discussed in another thread in these comments.)