You could not have turned on the BBC yesterday morning without hearing Elton John pushing his new book on Aids. I like Elton John, I enjoy his music and he has led an interesting life. However the BBC fawned over his every word on one of their favourite themes – the homosexual lifestyle. No challenges were issued. Instead we heard Elton talk about his wish to become a father again. We also heard him talk about the intolerance people show towards Aids victims and if you tuned into Thought for the Day today Ann Atkins was on trying to draw ananlogies between Elton and Christ. Only on the BBC.
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BBC TV news and Sir Elton is asked whether the church should be forced to accept same sex marriage. (Well that is an exaggeration – the question was not phrased in quite that explicit way).
I thought that Elton, quite sensibly, held back from being drawn into theology. In fact he seemed a little taken aback.
Seems the thought was more on the mind of the Beeboid than of Sir Elton.
Anyway I look forward to the Beeb asking the Bishops for their views on Crocodile Rock.
…or asking why, in our increasingly diverse and tolerant society, there aren’t any muslims pressing for the issue of gay marriage being allowed in mosques to be addressed by THEIR religious leaders…and whether or not some religions and cultures have much further to go in achieving more equality and ‘social justice’. These seem like the type of questions that the BBC are usually keen to ask. Waiting…
Yes, a bit like Elton, the BritishBuggeryCorporation don’t beat around the botty bush. Forever crazily thinking they’re spouting on behalf of the majority of British people, they can simply never get enough of promoting disgusting rectum wrecking bum love!
Even according to research commissioned twice by the Guardian, the results of scientific polling into how many people self-selected themselves in anonymous research as homosexual was 1.5% of the population. Bisexuals were a further 0.5%
Funny how the left wing media so willingly ignore their own funded research when the conclusions reached contradict their own agendas.
They should have decided that at 2% of the population, that the LGBT population is certainly NOT representative of the population as a whole. Not even close, and then decided to change their programming accordingly.
Hmmmmmmm “Programming”… When it comes to the BBC, that word is not wrong is it?
Just wondering – what proportion of the population would have to be gay before David Vance stopped being so perennially, obsessively rude about them?
I’m often at odds with many opinions here when the issue of homosexuality is discussed. I support the idea of gay marriage, but many seem to disagree. That’s OK – people ought to be able to express their views openly, but occasionally this will mean that some of the comments will go beyond the bounds of what others deem polite. Everyone’s standards are different, and I would prefer an open forum rather than a highly censored one…but then I’m very rarely offended. I take your point to some degree, but I don’t see that there’s much to cause offence in David’s post above.
“…what proportion of the population would have to be gay before David Vance stopped being so perennially, obsessively rude about them?”
Difficult to say whilst he is living the “ignorant, bigoted racist lifestyle”.
Funnily enough I’ve never had a muslim say stuff like this to me. Get a lot of it round here though.
Have a word with Iqbal Sacranie, former Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain, when he next pops into BBC radio studios for an interview.
Funnily enough I’ve never had a muslim say stuff like this to me.
Maybe conversations in person with 24/7 broadcast gay media folk are more shaped around securing a job with your employers? If I recall there is a procedure that can be adopted to ensure being taken on board.
Also, this being a blog ‘n all, any guarantee that the offending ‘isms you allude to ‘here’ are not written by a Muslim?
Full marks on the logic-light cherry-picking, though.
Well, all the abuse I’ve had thrown my way on here based on my sexuality has come from people who also throw broadsides about Muslims and Islam in ways that they wouldn’t possibly do if they were themselves of that faith.
But as for Guest Who accusing someone else of “logic-light cherry-picking” – well, arrant hypocrisy from Biased BBC will never fail to raise a laugh, I suppose…
Islam and homosexuality is a complicated subject because, however much it may be objected to in principle (although the elect get young boys as well as houris in paradise), any system which discourages contact between unrelated members of the opposite sex is likely to encourage it. A gay friend of mine once told me that everyone east of Athens is bisexual – having never been that far afield myself I wouldn’t know but Thesiger’s line in his ‘Marsh Arabs’ that their young men satisfy each other, behaving with the utmost discretion, tallies with what I heard go on in the house of bedsits I lived in, along with several Muslims in the East End. As in so many things, facade would appear to be all in Muslim societies,( which of course, vary a lot within certain parameters) and I suspect it’s blatant flaunting of homosexuality that is the crime in most places. Sometimes it also seems to be a useful pretext for arresting a political opponent. An apparent hardening of attitudes in recent years may simply be a useful stick with which to beat the decadent west (and appeal to the dislike of homosexuality in sub-Saharan Africa) as a kind of ruse de guerre in the never ending struggle.
“The homosexual lifestyle”?
There’s just one, homogenous lifestyle for all gay people?
Maybe there is in the fantasy world where David Vance is a voice of authority on anything. Here on Earth, things are very different.
It’s a fair point, I suppose. Of the few gay people I know, none of them in any way resemble the strange and slightly creepy attention seekers that seem to take centre stage at most of the gay pride marches I see on the news. Perhaps those are the only ones the media chooses to focus on, and there are plenty of regular gay people in attendance that aren’t in view – I’ve never been to one, so I can’t say. If I were gay, I’d be pretty angry that the media and some activist groups help create an impression that these weirdos are in some way representative.
“I like Elton John, I enjoy his music and he has led an interesting life.”
trans: “Some of my friends are gay.”
correction:
trans: “Some of my best friends are gay.”
Does anyone know, is Elton John’s book about ‘Good’ AIDS or ‘Bad’ AIDS?
I was out with a bunch of doctors/clinicians at the weekend, and they were laughing and joking about putting up a sign on the HIV ward in their hospital in neon saying “Filthy Dirty HIV ward”. Because no-one’s allowed to know where they are – only the doctors know it’s an HIV ward. They also told me the London Borough of Lambeth and Lewisham has the highest HIV rate in the whole of Europe thanks to african immigrants – congrats, Labour, you scumbags…
I too have a lot of time for Elton.
Didn`t hear the interview, but I`m pretty sure that he would be the latest donkey to pin the gay tail on in the cause of militant advocacy for the homosexualist lifestyle.
As if the BBC does not already have more than its share of gays.
Did hear Anne Atkins on TFTD mention the ” Christian response to homosexuality” as raised by Elton himself-and this would be worthy of a debate.
The BBC, however, will never have one…only throw mud at principled people who don`t and won`t buy into to the metrosex/multikult dream, as the Beeb itself seems to push at all times…I for one am sick of the BBCs relentless grooming of us all.
When the BBC is gone, maybe then we shall have that debate…Elton may well be in the kingdom before the local pastor, but either of them will be well ahead of Satans little suckups and Allahs Axminster weaves that comprise 99% of all Propaganda from the BBC.
Time to eviscerate the BBC…keep the foreskin and chuck the rest of it away…or else we`ll be in real trouble very soon.
Judging by their both being particularly impassioned on the topic of gay rights, I’m beginning to wonder if Scott and Dez are running an antique shop togethersomewhere.
Can I just say what a comfort to find somebody who actually
understands what they’re talking about on the internet. You certainly realize how to bring a problem to light and make it important. A lot more people should check this out and understand this side of the story. I can’t believe you are not more popular given that you certainly have the gift.