Yeah, my thinking in this case - and in the thousands of similar cases - was that regardless of the fact that conception requires an egg and sperm, the child wouldn't have been conceived at all in any manner had the same sex parents not desired to have children together. So such a child's existence is a direct result of their union. I don't if that's really looking way outside the box and irrelevant to the argument but I just thought it was so  skewed and half-sighted to say that all children are a result of purely heterosexual couplings

Brenda Power desperately tries to keep herself in the news. Sad bint. (Oh, and lesbians are misogynists, apparently..) http://bit.ly/ZcQXB

cheer yourselves up while you're there, after listening to Panti's interview,forget Ms Power's existence and enjoy the wonderfulness that is David Norris in the interview below it

Just caught the very, very end of that, and once again Liveline manages to turn a discussion on one topic into a session for self-loathing gays.

WTF, like?

Reading the Sunday Times and listening to Liveline is a sign of self-loathing, gay or not.

All of you- desist.

 

Now now

Rory (Panti) is talking on liveline now with some gays who like the bill - interesting

This was the one line that made me pause for a moment


The more i read over it the more i realized that it is being used completely out of context.

In her view, she was abused because she spoke an opinion. without actually getting into the semantics of the word opinion an opinion is something that gives a thought - an expression of ones feelings. These are perfectly allowed (even if i disagree with them)

However, her opinion is that a minority group should STILL be treated less favorable than the rest in society. This is her opinion that the LGBT community is disagreeing with.

In a democratic society, we cannot afford to punish those who are different and don't fit in with the so called "normal person"

Her opinion is that the LGBT community shouldn't have their rights because they are lesbian/gay/bi/trans which is a sheer inequality which a democracy fights against - everybody is equal in a democracy (or supposed to be)

I'm not fighting her right to an opinion - i'm disagreeing with it - big difference

Also i am glad that she recognised that since single people are allowed to adopt, her arguments that adoption is for a married heterosexual couple goes right out the window