Posts tagged UK
Periodical Political Post *47
Mar 11th
- Mexico enacts Latin America’s first gay marriage law
- US Anti-Gay senator comes out as gay after arrest
- Kid kicked out of pre-school because parents are gay
- US high-school prom cancelled in Lesbian panic
- Man branded as pedo for taking photo of his son
- Obama supports DNA sampling upon arrest
- European Parliament gives the US a lesson on freedom
- Why surveillance cameras won’t make us safer
US newspaper readers are in uproar over this photo. The Washington Post’s internal ombudsman has defended the newspaper’s decision to carry a front-page photo of a gay couple kissing. The newspaper printed the image last week on the first day gay couples in the district were able to apply for marriage licences. Couple Jeremy Ames and Taka Ariga are shown sharing a peck on the lips outside the DC Superior Court. But Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander said he received complaints from readers: "A few of the readers have engaged in rants, often with anti-gay slurs. One called me to complain about ‘promoting a faggot lifestyle’.” Read on…
Tainted Tuesday *29
Mar 9th
Click on the photo to strip him ;) More can be found here (thx Geoffrey)
Lysabild
Mar 7th
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Photo by Flo Fairweather
Periodical Political Post *46
Feb 26th
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- Australian Senate rejects gay marriage bill even ‘tho 60% of Aussies support it
- New Bill will allow British schools to teach that homosexuality is wrong
- France first country to delist Transgenderism as a mental illness
- Lithuanian law bans promotion of gay marriage & sexual relations between minors
- US congress renews PATRIOT Act, keeps abandoning civil rights
- US fesses up to potentially illegal spying, including peace groups and Planned Parenthood
- Texas stores blood samples of new born babies for massive DNA database
- Citibank closes bank account of gay social network, says content is “objectionable”
- Iceland’s new free speech laws for media after Swedish model pass first discussion
- US copyright lobby says using open source software makes you a pirate
After threatening to end its adoption and homeless services programs in Washington D.C. if the City Council approved gay marriage there, the catholic church’s charities unit is indeed dismantling its foster care program because they fear the city might somehow "force" the church to officiate gay unions and recognize same-sex partners of employees. However, maybe this has turned out for the best. The children, their families, and even the program’s semployees have found a new home — at the National Center for Children and Families, which is not affiliated with any religious institution. Which means these children will still have the services they very much need, without the intervention of a church that abandoned them to uphold discrimination and seeing how church institutions have sexually & physically abused thousands of kids it might be for the better.
- Papst befahl Bischöfen die systematische Vertuschung sexuellen Missbrauchs
- Amnesty International kritisiert CDU & FDP für Blockade von Diskriminierungsschutz
- Zensurgesetz tritt in Kraft, CDU & FDP ignorieren Petition von 134.000 Deutschen
- Rot-Rote Regierung in Berlin beschließt Programm gegen Homophobie
- Parlament schickt mehr Soldaten nach Afghanistan, gegen den Willen der Bevölkerung
- Zu links um Deutsch zu sein, Linksparteipolitkerin darf nicht eingebürgert werden
No more Skirts in UK Schools?
Feb 23rd
The British Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said making skirts part of a compulsory uniform could breach the rights of female-to-male transsexuals.. In official guidelines published ahead of the Equality Bill, which comes into force this autumn, the watchdog says that "requiring pupils to wear gender-specific clothes is potentially unlawful". It goes on to state that "pupils born female with gender dysphoria experienced great discomfort being forced to wear stereotypical girls’ clothes – for example a skirt." The EHRC, which can force public bodies to comply with equality law, said schools are obliged to be "proactive" in ensuring there is no discrimination against transsexual pupils. More details at the Telegraph.
Photo by & with Xag
Periodical Political Post *44
Feb 10th
- FBI wants records kept of web sites visited for two years
- US Police wants backdoor to web users’ private data
- Sweden rather pays fine to EU than spying on its citizen
- Ex-gay therapy is getting funded by UK National Health Service
- Australian government websites hacked by Anonymous over censorship
- Britain tempts youth onto huge ID database with alcohol and games
- Gay animal rights group denied place in Sydney Mardi Gras
- South Carolina wants people to register before they overthrow the government
Lolicon mascot Pedobear has been dubbed the 2010 Vancouver Olympic mascot by one factually challenged newspaper in Poland. Lesson: Don’t use Google Image Search to illustrate your articles.
- Absage an US-Schnüffler: SWIFT-Daten bleiben in Europa
- Neuer Ministerpräsident in BaWü ist Schwulen-Hasser
- FDP im freien Fall, Schwarz-Gelb unbeliebteste Koalition seit langem
- FDP findet, Pressefreiheit ist nur was für andere Staaten
- FDP bläht Verwaltngsapparat auf, der Vetternwirtschaft zuliebe
- Gericht findet Polizei darf Frau das Nasenbein brechen
