Blairite Bullshit

[dotinthesky]

According to Labour MP Jack Straw "Muslim women who wore full veils made community relations difficult. He said he would prefer that women did not wear them because they acted as a 'visible statement of separation and difference'." Tony Blair agreed with him. [article]

And yet, here's Tony Blair also agreeing with devout Catholic Ruth Kelly, the Communities Secretary, that a new bill intended to give lesbians & gays equal rights to their straight counterparts should be blocked (her spin is that it's just "a delay"). And why? Because it makes faith-based organizations (i.e. Christians) uncomfortable having to deal with gays as if they are normal people. In other words, it's not OK for muslims to be different, but please let's not start treating queers as equal to us. [article]

I want to fill this post with very dirty words.

Comments

[suede.livejournal.com]

Maybe it should be forbidden too for Christians to wear rosaries or crucifixes because its a visible statement of separation and difference with the rest of the society...

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Exactly. And they should definitely be forbidden from knocking on people's doors and trying to convert them.