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Contents:
- UKIP’S LGBT CHAIR QUS DUE TO PARTY'S LACK OF ‘GAY-IENDLY TONE’
- INTRODUCG BRA'S FIRST UKIP-ENDORSG GAY PUB
- UKIP UNCILLOR BLAM STORMS AND FLOODS ON GAY MARRIAGE
- UKIP E CLEAN ABOUT WHY THEY REALLY OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
UKIP’S LGBT CHAIR QUS DUE TO PARTY'S LACK OF ‘GAY-IENDLY TONE’
Tom Booker rigns as chair of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr group and leav Ukip, sayg he ‘simply uldn’t fend the party any more’ * ukip gay policy *
Ukip’s lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr group chair has rigned over ncerns that the party’s learship has failed to “set a gay-iendly tone”.
I stepped down om my posn as founr-chairman of LGBT* Ukip, and rigned my membership of Ukip, due to disillnment of policy directn and dissatisfactn at the failure of the learship to set a gay-iendly tone. Booker, who ns a hydrotherapy pool Peterborough, will be replaced by Flo Lewis, while the party’s parliamentary ndidate for Normanton, Ponteact and Castleford, Nathan Garbutt, will ntue as the group’s ’s rignatn jt before the start of the party’s sprg nference Margate on Thursday Nigel Farage told Fox News that mosqu Bra have been filtrated by crimal hate preachers, and warned that relig mori need to unrstand the law of the ’s LGBT group – which oppos same-sex marriage on the grounds of relig eedom – spoke out agast ments ma by the party’s uncillor for Henley-upon-Tham, David Silvter, who argued that heavy floodg January 2014 was bee of the ernment’s plans to legalise gay marriage. “I wre wh perverse trigue as to why you have chosen to blame the bad weather on gay marriage, g the Bible as the pot of reference for your theory, ” the letter his public Facebook page, Booker scrib his polics as “classil liberalism”, wrg that he is dited to “small central ernance, more lolised power (yay, power to the people!
For several years, the party attempted to distance self om homophobic views often exprsed by s reprentativ, but lear Gerard Batten has lnched a new manifto that swgs the party’s directn heavily agast LGBT+ rights.
INTRODUCG BRA'S FIRST UKIP-ENDORSG GAY PUB
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The now former UKIP uncillor David Silvter’s suggtn that there was a lk between legislatn on gay marriage and the current floods ed a great al of discsn about relig beliefs polics, as well as spawng the UkipWeather twter handle. 9% of Conservativ disagreed wh the tted statement: “It is a good thg that gay and lbian upl are able to enter to ‘civil partnership’ and have rights siar to married upl. 2% of Conservative supporters agree that gay and lbian upl should be able to marry, pared to 58.
UKIP UNCILLOR BLAM STORMS AND FLOODS ON GAY MARRIAGE
Still, seems UKIP’s opposn to gay marriage chim wh a majory of s supporters and wh many Conservativ. The are qutns that have massively divid the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny the n up to the big Pri day, this Saturday 27 June. This provoked an cendiary bate among LGBT people about whether UKIP should be allowed to participate, given s anti-gay and anti-human rights rerd.
“A petn wh over 2, 300 signatur” urged that the LGBT group should be barred on the grounds that UKIP is “an herently homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, racist and misogynistic polil party. Its plan to slash overseas aid by two-thirds is likely to dimish val support and assistance to LGBT and other human rights anisatns reprsive and homophobic untri. Ined, lgs by the ECHR forced succsive UK ernments to end the ban on LGBTs the armed forc, equalise the age of nsent, extend rights to transgenr people and scrap homophobic bias the crimal law.
UKIP E CLEAN ABOUT WHY THEY REALLY OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE
Why would any party other than a homophobic one want to break lks wh a urt that has done so much good for LGBTs? Not surprisgly, a prev lear of UKIP’s LGBT group rigned disgt at the party’s homophobia, biphobia and transphobia. What mak UKIP uniquely homophobic is the vast number of polici on which is clearly not supportg the terts and welfare of LGBT people.
In addn, far too many of UKIP’s ndidat and elected policians – more than om any other party – “have ma repeated outrageo anti-gay ments that echo the extreme homophobia” of the far right Brish Natnal Party (BNP), as documented by ViceUK. When I recently tweeted about the jailg of gay men Moroc, UKIP LGBT tweeted back that was “jt like LGBT UKIP beg banned om a muny Pri event. UKIP and s LGBT wg uld end the ntroversy by renouncg the party’s anti-LGBT stance and endorsg polici to remedy the remag gay equali.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
If they are not homophobic, why haven’t they done this? The party’s youth aniser, Olly Neville, was sacked for endorsg gay marriage.
Crics pot out that if Pri bans UKIP LGBT on the grounds that is part of homophobic anisatn then LGBT Catholic groups (and others) should also be nied the right to march on the grounds that they are part of a homophobic stutn. The Catholic church, spe s gross homophobia, has no such direct power. They clu obsceni, homophobia, paedophile slurs and anti-Mlim bigotry.