Ukip’s LGBT chair qus due to party's lack of ‘gay-iendly tone’ | UK Inpennce party (Ukip) | The Guardian

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’

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”.

INTRODUCG BRA'S FIRST UKIP-ENDORSG GAY PUB

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!

UKIP UNCILLOR BLAM STORMS AND FLOODS ON GAY MARRIAGE

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.

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.

Still, seems UKIP’s opposn to gay marriage chim wh a majory of s supporters and wh many Conservativ.

UKIP E CLEAN ABOUT WHY THEY REALLY OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE

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.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

Why would any party other than a homophobic one want to break lks wh a urt that has done so much good for LGBTs?