In Belfast, DUP MP Iris Robinson stirs up some familiar hatred...

[theHandpuppet]

From the Belfast Telegraph...

Police probe over Iris Robinson's gay remarks
Complaints lead to serious crime branch inquiry

By Deborah McAleese
Wednesday, 3 December 2008

Officers from the PSNI’s serious crime branch are carrying out interviews as part of an investigation into DUP MP Iris Robinson’s controversial remarks over homosexuality, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal.

The First Minister's wife caused a storm when she told the House of Commons, during a debate on the assessment and management of sex offenders, that “there can be no viler act, apart from homosexuality and sodomy, than sexually abusing innocent children”.

Her comments were made just days after she told a radio programme that homosexuality was an abomination and that gay people could be “cured”...

MORE at http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/police-probe-over-iris-robinsons-gay-remarks-14090262.html

Well, at least we know that hating gays is an issue that seems to bring folks together, the world over. :puke:

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. Someone should tell her that heterosexuality can be cured as well

It is a very well documented fact that most child molesters, rapists and other actual sex criminals are heterosexual.

[xchrom]

2. indeed -- you can get groups who other wise wouldn't be caught

dead together -- in bed together to act on anti-gay bigotry.

the whole world over is right.

[theHandpuppet]

3. And here are the voices of her supporters....

Protestant minister defiant over homosexuality advert
By Emily Moulton
Wednesday, 3 December 2008

Rev David McIlveen has defended the language used in the ad

The Minister of the Sandown Free Presbyterian Church has accused the Advertising Standards Authority of putting the church on trial.

In August the Belfast Telegraph reported that several complaints had been lodged with the watchdog about a full page 540-word ad which had been placed by the church in the News Letter the day before the annual Gay Pride Parade.

The ad described homosexuality as an abomination, defined homosexuals as perverts and called on religious followers to maintain a very public stance against the gay community in defiance of the parade which it claimed celebrated a “profitable lifestyle”.

The ad appeared on Friday, August 1, following months of controversy surrounding comments made by DUP MP Iris Robinson....

More at http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/protestant-minister-defiant-over-homosexuality-advert-14090290.html

See? When it comes to hating gays, the Catholics and Protestants can get along famously! :puke:

[Creideiki]

4. Wait. Being gay is worse than sexually abusing innocent children?

Someone's moral compass needs some serious adjustment.

I suppose she could be right. That's why "Thou shalt not have sex with someone of the same gender," is one of the 10 commandments. Oh, wait. It's not.