Lord Magnis, the peer acced of bullyg gay MPs and rantg about "homos", has been officially spend om the Hoe of Lords.
Contents:
- PEER WHO THKS BEG GAY IS A ‘DISEASE’ SPEND OM HOE OF LORDS AFTER SHOCKG TIRAS ABOUT ‘QUEERS’ AND ‘HOMOS’
- HIBOUND CHAMBER LETS DOWN ITS HAIR GAY-MARRIAGE DEBATE
- LEADG GAY ACTIVIST APPOTED TO BRISH HOE OF LORDS
- GAY MARRIAGE: HOW LORDS VOTED
PEER WHO THKS BEG GAY IS A ‘DISEASE’ SPEND OM HOE OF LORDS AFTER SHOCKG TIRAS ABOUT ‘QUEERS’ AND ‘HOMOS’
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Lord Magnis, the peer acced of bullyg gay MPs and rantg about “homos”, has been officially spend om the Hoe of Lords after his lleagu voted to eject him. The polician, a former MP for Northern Ireland’s Ulster Unnist Party, was spend om the unelected upper chamber on Monday (7 December) as peers voted by 408 to 24 to back a report ncludg his abive nduct and e of homophobic language breached l on bullyg and harassment. Lord Magnis lashed out at ‘queers’ and ‘homos’.
Ken Magnis, 82, is acced of directg homophobic abe towards SNP MP Hannah Barll and Labour MP Le Pollard, who are both gay, as well as abg parliamentary secury officer Christian Bombolo. In an email wh the subject “Discrimatn by Homos”, Magnis raged: “I’m not prepared to be victimised by ‘queers’ – not least by those like Pollard and that ‘lady’ Hannah Barll, the Sts Nat who recently sought to embarrass me.
The email also boasted of his 2012 nomatn by Stonewall as bigot of the year for ments that led to his removal om the Ulster Unnist Party, when he scribed homosexualy as a “disease” and claimed equal marriage would be a “ng on the ladr” towards btialy.
HIBOUND CHAMBER LETS DOWN ITS HAIR GAY-MARRIAGE DEBATE
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She add: “As we seek to make polics and ed the natns of the UK, fairer and more jt, we mt root out abive and homophobic behavur such as that which I and others experienced at the hands of Lord Ken Magnis. Full list of Hoe of Lords members who rejected report on homophobic bullyg. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTLondon JournalHibound Chamber Lets Down Its Hair Gay-Marriage Kwood/Getty ImagJune 4, 2013LONDON — The Hoe of Lords stands as one of the great bastns of tradn here, a baroque lk to a distant, noble-centric past of pomp and pageantry.
LEADG GAY ACTIVIST APPOTED TO BRISH HOE OF LORDS
”And still another peer, 86-year-old Baron Jenk of Rodg, said he had been supportive of gay rights sce he was a llege stunt and his grandfather first explaed gay people to him. It’s for gays and lbians — I n’t possibly marry you. ”It was not the first time gay peers had spoken openly of their sexualy the chamber, or the first time their lleagu had champned gay rights.
In 1999, the Lords rejected legislatn to lower the age of nsent for gay sex to 16, om 18, wh many argug — om personal boardg-school experience, seemed — that the bill would make teenage boys vulnerable to the predatory advanc of olr gay men. )The current gay marriage bill passed Febary after an angry bate the Hoe of Commons, wh many Conservativ fyg the ernment le and votg agast . But even s most impassned crics, a passel of noble bishops among them, went out of their way, wh a few rare exceptns, to clare their firm support for gay upl and civil partnerships.
“There has been a very remarkable change, ” said Lord Jenk, who remembers the vrlic, revulsn-filled Hoe of Commons bat the 1960s over crimalizg gay sex. “The massive tolerance and disgt which the ncept of homosexualy still gave exprsn to then — nobody would get away wh that today, ” he said an meant that when the lord bishop of Leicter rose to speak agast the bill on Monday he did so, he said, “as one whose rpect for and appreciatn of gay clergy is ep and who regniz them sacrificial liv and uful mistri.
GAY MARRIAGE: HOW LORDS VOTED
”It meant that when Lord Dear cricized the bill as beg “troduced on a whim and handled such valier fashn, ” he also said that he had “seen and appld this untry’s change of attu towards homosexualy, om thly veiled tolerance 50 years or so ago to a posn of unrstandg and acceptance today.
”Lord Smh of Fsbury, who as a legislator the Hoe of Commons 30 years ago beme the first openly gay member of Parliament, said an terview that the Lords’ attus were begng to move wh public opn, particularly among younger the end of the bate, the Lords voted on an amendment that would have killed the bill. This beg the Hoe of Lords, some ployed reasong that seemed old-fashned, at the very notg that “homosexuals are often very lightful, artistic and lovg people, ” Barons Knight of Collgtree observed that “a man n no more bear a child than a woman n produce sperm. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 6 of the New York edn wh the headle: Hibound Chamber Lets Down Its Hair Gay-Marriage Debate.
In 2008 Cashman, an Honorary Associate of the UK’s Natnal Secular Society, sld the Catholic archbishop of Riga, Cardal Janis Pujats, as well as other clergy for darg to publicly oppose efforts to stage Gay Pri monstratns Latvia which he scribed as “flictg their prejudic on others. It is ranked 64th on the Top 100 list piled by lbian, gay, bi and trans equaly chary Stonewall.