2008-07-11 - Rider Down, NW11

If a politician tells us that we should kick all the homosexuals out of the country, I am free to tell him I find his ideas contemptuous, I find his views abhorrent. I could probably call him a cunt to his face and not be overly criticized for doing so (even if you may not agree with that kind of language yourself).

If a senior Church of England bishop tells us that the floods that devastated great swathes of the Midlands last year were caused by our increasing tolerance towards gays (Rt Rev Graham Dow, Bishop of Carlisle July 07) - and I walked up to him and I took the same line I took with our politician (going as far as to call him a cunt to his face) - there would be embarrassment all around and calls for me to 'calm down'.
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is this true? not from me there wouldn't. I'd be too busy chipping in "and a bellend".
Just to even up the gender-specific-organ-as-insult quota.

i can't believe someone said that. Tynan are you selectively quoting again.....? hold on...let me find the original statement...

rifles through papers

here we go - he actually said "Due to someone blocking the sink up in the Pink Flamingo in Birmingham - which is a gay bar and was open for several days and nights of revelling - the main Severn Trent distributor pipe serving much of the Midlands eventually exploded under the pressure, causing widespread floods across the region". I'm not sure why he was a bishop of Carlisle was appointed spokesman for the Severn Trent flood squad but there you go...;D