OPINION
that stupid woman Jan Moir, who started
banging on about Stephen Gately’s “gay
lifestyle” being responsible for his death,
before his family had had a chance to even
deal with the shock, and making wild
assumptions before the cause of death had
been established (a pulmonary
oedema resulting from an undiagnosed heart
condition, as it turned out); the loathsome
Richard Littlejohn who outed transgender
teacher Lucy Meadows, in a nasty
transphobic piece, that no doubt contributed
to her suicide. Neither Moir
nor Littlejohn ever
Vitaly Milonov
apologised, but that is the
way with the Daily Mail.
What’s a life when there’s a
good story at stake? What
indeed?
Line them up.
While I’m at it, maybe I
can take steps to burn all
copies of the Daily Mail,
burn down their printing
press and offices, and
literally do everything
possible to prevent it ever
being printed again. I
doubt it would be missed,
and maybe “outraged of
middle England” might
actually end up feeling a
little happier, and even a
little less outraged.
Time now to look further
afield and outside the UK.
First and foremost would
have to be Vladimir
Putin, that confused
despot, who doesn’t know
the difference between
homosexuality and
paedophilia, but delights in
posing for homoerotic
photographs. Poor man
obviously has quite a few
self-esteem issues, as he
Vladimir Putin
regularly apes the Red
Queen from Alice in
Wonderland, screaming
“Off with his head” to anyone brave enough to
contradict him.
Next to him we’ll put Vitaly Milonov, one of
the architects of the present ant-gay law in
Russia, who seems to equate homosexuality
with bestiality, and proclaims he is only doing
God’s work (we’ll get on to religion in a
moment). He is convinced that
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homosexuality is a choice, though one
wonders why anyone in their right mind
would make such a choice in a country where
they are likely to be beaten up, or even killed.
The man is clearly mad. Only recently he has
proposed granting full citizenship to embryos
and forcing women who have not given birth
by the age of 23 to join the army. Eh? “Off
with his head!”
And so I move on to religion, or rather those
who commit crimes of hatred in its name.
Truth to tell, there are
rather too many of them to
put in front of a firing
squad. It would be a very
crowded wall and you
might miss one or two, so I
prefer to take a few
examples and make them
scapegoats. After all,
scapegoating is something
these nasties are all rather
good at.
Now I know he doesn’t
really pose any kind of
threat anymore, not since
he was ousted, I’m sorry, I
meant since he stepped
down (the first Pope to
resign since 1415!), but
Joseph Ratzinger
shouldn’t really be allowed
to get away with years of
shielding paedophile
priests, with subjecting
women in poor countries
to the servitude of
continuous motherhood,
with furthering the spread
of HIV by not allowing
people to use condoms.
There’s no way he should
be holed up in comfort
somewhere in the Vatican
City, safe from the clutches
of journalists. He should
be out to face his crimes.
Talk of Ratzinger reminds
me that it was he who gave
his blessing to Rebecca Kadaga, the
Speaker of the Ugandan Parliament, who
promised to pass the notorious Ugandan “Kill
the Gays” bill as a “Christmas gift”. She
should not go unpunished.
Nor should Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria’s
president, who has just passed a “Jail the
Gays” law, which is already spreading untold