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Did anyone else see that the highest ranking Roman Catholic in the UK recived the award for bigot of the year from the gay rights charity Stonewall?
Link to article here
that's amusing. Not sure it's helping the case for gay marriage at all though
So you don't think that bigots should be called "bigots"? What would you call them? Of course it may be argued that the cardinal isn't an actual bigot, but with what's been presented this certainly appears to be the case.WoW! It is one thing to attempt to get a point across, but to use such childish means is quite surprising,
But Stonewall Scotland director Colin Macfarlane said: "The people that were nominated for Bigot of the Year have this year called gay people Nazis, they have compared them to bestialitists and to paedophiles, and one of the nominees suggested that gay people should be put in front of a firing squad and shot dead.
"So I think what we are doing is highlighting the very cruel, very nasty, very pernicious language that is being used by some people - and in particular by the cardinal, who won.
"I think we are right to highlight that and to shine a light on that kind of discrimination, and hence why bigot of the year was one of our award categories.
"In the past year the cardinal has likened the campaign for same-sex marriage to slavery, he has called it grotesque."