'Gays': time to return to the closet?

Let me say from the outset that I have no interest, let alone objection to what people do behind closed doors. I am with Mrs Pat who famously said ‘It doesn’t matter what you do as long as you don’t do it in the street and frighten the horses’.

 

But I recently saw a figure – don’t ask me for a link – that said that the homosexual population of the UK was 1.6% of the total.

 

If this is correct, or even inaccurate by a factor of 10, it occurs to me that they get far too much attention from the politicians and the chattering classes, far too much media coverage, far too much Parliamentary time, far too much legislative protection and favour and have far too much all-round influence.

 

We have recently had to endure the obscene farce of the debate on ‘gay, marriage using up a vast amount of Parliamentary time and public money. I understand that the effect will be no more than to confer the right to a ceremony in church (not the C of E), and a certificate. It will not confer any rights, such as inheritance, than they already have. So why the hoo-ha? It is said that ‘gays’ themselves were not particularly fazed, by all this and it seems to have been the product of yet more policy-by-focus group, helping Dave to dispel the image of the ’nasty party’.

 

I very much doubt that gays who wish to marry in church are motivated by belief, which declares sodomy to be a sin. They have other, more worldly, motives in their desperation to be seen as ‘normal’.

 

And it is not going away. Expect to see the Bill get savaged in the Lords.

 

Then we have the C of E riven by the issue of ‘gay’ Bishops and parsons, as if they have not been always with us. Every snotty-nosed kid used to have his quota of jokes about vicars and choirboys. If I understand it correctly, it is actually about whether Their Reverences should be allowed to flaunt it. As their Churches are empty I don’t see that it matters.

 

Sort this out, My Lord Bishops and then concentrate on real Christian issues, such as setting the moral tone of the nation, which you have conspicuously failed to do for the last 40years at least.

 

The ‘gay rights’ movement over the years seems to have been characterised by a high level of militancy, an ‘in your face’ aggressiveness. As witness, recall the case of the elderly couple who were prosecuted for refusing a room with a double bed to two homosexual men for reasons of conscience. Since there seems little that they can’t perform in a pair of singles, I was left in no doubt that this was a ‘sting’ by the ‘gay rights’  tendency.

 

Then there are the ‘gay pride’ marches in which painted poofs prance half-naked through the streets of Cape Town and Sydney. What purpose do they have except to cause offence to ‘straights’ and to ram their life-style down our throats?

 

If they wish to be seen as ‘normal’, why do they not behave normally?

 

The influence and power of gays ‘has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished’.