Thursday - July 02, 2009

I’MSORRYI’MSORRYI’MSORRY … WTF is it with these retroactive apologies?

Don’t you just hate this BS.
Get a load of this.

David Cameron has publicly apologised for Section 28 the law introduced by the Thatcher government banning local authorities from promoting homosexuality

Just so you folks back home know, Mr. Cameron is more then likely to become the next PM and he is the head of what passes here for, the Conservative Party, known as Tories.

No pun intended here but I guess he’s sucking up to this crowd for what else?  VOTES!  That’s my guess anyway.  Why in the world is that necessary to begin with?  It was the 80s and he wasn’t in power.  (Lyndon?  What was he doing back then?)
I just see red every time somebody not connected by generation or authority makes these sucky apologies. 

David Cameron says sorry over Section 28 gay law
David Cameron has publicly apologised for Section 28 the law introduced by the Thatcher government banning local authorities from promoting homosexuality.

By Andrew Pierce

The Tory leader, speaking at a Gay deviant pride event, went much further than before in apologising for decisions taken by the party when Baroness Thatcher was leader.

Mr Cameron, the first Tory leader to speak at a Gay queer pride event, said: “I am sorry for Section 28. We got it wrong. It was an emotional issue. I hope you can forgive us.”

Aagghhhh gak.  What the hell is this hope you can forgive US?  US?  Jeez, I bet ya none of the tories in office today were even involved with that decision.
And if any were, so what?  So this is what the Tories and the UK have come to.  TINOs!

Section 28, which became law in 1988, banned local authorities from portraying homosexuality in a positive light. It became a totemic issue for Conservative modernisers. In 2003, when it was abolished by the Labour government, Mr Cameron voted for only the partial lifting of the ban.

Mr Cameron was speaking at an event in London to support Margot James, the Tory candidate for Stourbridge, who is the party’s only openly gay woman candidate. If she wins Stourbridge, one of the party’s key target seats, she will be only the second out gay woman in the House of Commons.

Mr Cameron said: “It is remarkable to have a Conservative leader standing on a gay pride queer platform. Five years ago not many gays would have turned up. Five years ago not many Tories would have turned up either.”

He said one of his “proudest” moments as Tory leader was telling the annual party conference in 2006 that they had a duty to support a “commitment to marriage” among men and women, between a “man and a man, and a woman and a woman”.

Mr Cameron and the shadow cabinet have been on a

(kiss -kiss)

charm offensive with the gay community as new polling research indicates for the first time since 1988 they have moved ahead of the Labour Party.

A survey published today by Jake, gay professionals networking organisation, had Labour on 20.7 per cent, the Lib Dems, on 27.6 per cent, and the Conservatives ahead on 38.2 per cent.

Last year Michael Gove, the shadow schools secretary, said that the party had got it badly wrong on gay issues. ‘I think we indulged prejudice in the 1980s and missed the point,’ he said. ‘It’s not gay men who are abusing women and abandoning children – it’s straight men.” he said.

While Tony Blair said that the introduction of civil partnerships was one of his proudest achievements as Prime Minister Gordon Brown did not attend the Commons to vote in favour of any of Labour’s pro-gay legal reforms. Votes which he missed include the Government’s equalisation of the age of consent, gay couples being able to jointly adopt, civil partnerships, the Equality Act and the abolition of Section 28.

Mr Cameron voted against gay couples adopting but did vote for the introduction of the Civil Partnerships Act, which introduced a form of ‘gay marriage’.

Ben Summerskill, the chief executive of Stonewall the gay rights organisation, said: “This is something people have waited on for many years. It is a remarkably positive step forward. Without any doubt the legacy of Section 28, even after it was repealed in 2003, has been a great deal of electoral damage to the Conservatives among a significant number of people who would otherwise have been natural supporters.”

SOURCE

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