B-BBC Contributor Alan notes “Perhaps I have missed the BBC report into this matter?”:
‘It emerged last week that the ASA is investigating an advertisement from the Coalition For Marriage (C4M), which campaigns against changing the law, following claims it is “offensive” to homosexual people.
Archbishop Cranmer, a popular political and religious blog, was asked to justify carrying the advertisements, which also appeared in a host of other media after 11 complaints to the ASA.If the complaints are upheld the advertisement could be banned.
Yesterday Cranmer voiced disbelief after Lord Smith recorded a message for the “Out4Marriage” website, expressing his support for same-sex marriage.
“We have gained so much over the last 10 or 15 years and civil partnerships have been a major step forward but it still isn’t full equality and that is why I think this is a very important campaign,” he said. “There is a personal reason too – as a gay man I would like to be able to marry.” ‘
Here is a man, Lord Smith Chairman of the ASA, of undoubted high influence, in a position to use his powers to silence critics of gay marriage…and it looks as if this has been attempted. And yet the BBC look the other way and decide to ignore this abuse of power.
However not on all occasions….top billing in ‘gay marriage’ search on the BBC….
X-Men superhero set for same sex wedding
Marvel comic X-Men is to feature its first same sex wedding after gay character Northstar’s marriage proposal to his boyfriend.
No mention of Chris Smith. The Left have for a long while now been ardently campaigning to silence ‘Rightwing’ bloggers and even journalists…..guess this is just another aspect of that and the BBC no doubt agrees in many respects.
What did Andrew Marr say?
“The BBC is not impartial or neutral. It’s a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities and gay people. It has a liberal bias not so much a party-political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal bias”.
Is that what we are seeing here…liberal bias by omission?
Watertight oversight (c) R. Black – the editorial policy that dare not speak its name (but gets used, a lot, when it suits)
I once owned a copy of the Penguin Encyclopaedia of Medicine, printed in the 1970’s. Under ‘homosexuality’ the doctor who wrote it opined that a major psychological difference between gays and everybody else was that they all had a silly streak. Anybody who had a homosexual acquaintance would know his, he added.
I think Smith’s ridiculous action where the conflict of interest is so obvious might be an example of this. Mandy’s managing to have to resign twice for bad behaviour is another. I was accused of abusing homosexuals when I expounded this idea on the Cranmer blog – by one of the gays who permanently patrol there – and at the BBC they would, no doubt, heartily agree with him – then privately just laugh off this scandal as a case of gays being gays.
I have the same book and I have just had a look at it. It’s by Peter Wingate and among his comments was that homosexuality, like promiscuity with the opposite sex, reflected an immature, adolescent pattern of behaviour and that homosexual men were more childish in many ways than their fellows.
He also referred to a suggestion that at least some homosexuality was not the result of a positive urge towards one’s own sex but a kind of phobia about the opposite sex. Haha! at that one, considering the use of p word these days by homosexual campaigners to label anyone who takes issue with the notion of homosexuality as normal or “the same” as or equal to heterosexuality. I see Smith bleating about “full equality” – as if two men or two women is the same as a heterosexual couple.
I remember, years ago, channel 4 began a magazine programme for gays, male and female, but had to drop it, after a few transmissions because the male homosexuals and lesbians got on like cats and dogs and ended up refusing o talk to each other. I’m sure most of the opposition to gay marriage is not based on Biblical notions of it being an abomination, so much as it would make the institution of marriage look ridiculous – a kind of burlesque of the real thing.
Here is another example of BBC bias by omission. recent news stories of the admirable courageous dissident Chen Guangcheng. including an article today regarding the situation of his brother. The pro abortion, Planned Parenthood supporting BBC, has not once given any coverage on the cause that Chen was trying to bring to the world’s attention.
Check this link out and see what our media does not want to bring to the attention of the masses.
Just like the Chinese government the BBC would prefer to suppress Chen by not giving him a voice here also.
To repeat myself, there is no such thing as equality. Just because one wants to be equal doesn’t mean it is achieveable. The socialists/communists/marxists/greens/common purpose types use the issue to pursue their own agendas. If the gay movement ceases to bring about the changes that the communists etc want, they’ll abandon it without any compunction. The useful idiots in the gay movement need to wise up. The bbc needs to wise up about such matters, particularly since their muslim chums will eventually start to throw them off high buildings, once they feel they have sufficient power to do so with impunity. Marriage is between a man and a woman, no matter how these civilisation destroyers rail against this. They are like children having a hissy fit because they can’t get what they want.
Trouble is, they will get what they want, step by step and stuff free speech and democracy. The Islam/gay civil war sure will be interesting when it finally does kick off – the War of the Intolerants, shall we call it. Wonder which side Al-Beeb will come down on?
I think that Alan takes aim but falls far short of a bigger target than he suspects with this post.
It’s a *massive* example of abuse of power; a disgrace both to Smith and the cronies who surround him.
If you replaced the word Labour with Conservative in the DT storyline (try it!) then the BBC would have all newsreaders wearing black ties. Narrow-angle lenses would make a dozen paid-for demonstrators look like a massive crowd and they’d report it as a “hundred thousand peaceful protestors”
Swap the word back from Conservative to Labour and it’s tumbleweed.
The exchange of emails between the ASA and a blogger who is (obviously) merely ashes and a spirit is very enjoyable from the point of view of a libertarian. Tackling the exchanges on multiple post headers (even with the comments) takes a while but if you can them please enjoy the last 8 or 9 days from: archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com
The socialists/communists/marxists believed that an equal society could be achieved by way of political action, and against the wish of the people. They believed in this with such fervour that they ended up committing the greatest mass murder in all human history – 150 million people eliminated in the gulags and labour camps of Russia, China, Cambodia and even Ethiopia in the space of a few decades. And untold number, if not all the survivors scarred for life.
What the Marxists/communists did in the 20th century makes Hitler look like an amateur.
I wonder when the BBC will have a series of programs on the sheer evil of the ideology begotten by Marx?
Answers from Dez? You must have a comprehensive list of past programmes?
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