Posts made by raphjd

He doesn't understand why Facebook did what it did.

Nick Clegg said in 2007 that he doesn't believe in god, but he forces his kids to go to catholic church.  That seems like a "just in case" scenario.  Besides, Clegg never had a chance to lead the UK.

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown wore their religions on their sleeves, as did the vast majority of the "new" Labour.  Tony Blair couldn't be Prime Minister and be catholic, because it's against UK law.  That's why he stayed in the "I'm not catholic, but I go to catholic church every Sunday and Wednesday evening with my family" closet until he left 10 Downing St.  This is why Catholic Adoptions Agency got a 7 year exemption allowing them to discriminate against gays, when everyone else had to obey the law immediately.  Ruth Kelly, a cabinet member under Blair and Brown, was/is a member of Opus Dei {of Dan Brown books fame} the ultra conservative catholic self harming lunatic group.

As for the "this isn't America" comment from a civil servant, who cares.  Brits say that all the time when they don't like something someone does.  You can't turn on the tv without something like "it's shit", "then it must be American" every 2 seconds.

Believers in the UK have so much power that they get to use taxpayer money for their exclusive schools, where they can teach young earth creationism and homophobia.  Name me a school in the US that uses tax payer money and gets away with that kind of crap.

Does the US Senate have permanent seats for the official state religion?

The last atheist European leader was gunned down in the street.  I don't remember his name, but he was the bald guy that was murdered in the street a few years ago.

I think it would be nearly impossible for a European leader to get elected unless he/she was a believer.

The UK panders to the believers by giving them taxpayer money so they can have believer schools to brainwash their kids.  When they cleared the House of Lords out of the old system, the left the seats for the the Bishops and Cardinals of the Church of England.

I'm gay for a reason.

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Ab Fab to return for a new 3 episode series.  The scripts haven't been written yet, but the filming is already scheduled to start in August.

This is a surprise considering Jennifer Saunders said she was retiring from show business {writing, acting, directing and producing} 2 years ago, but would still do the odd charity event though.

I don't think it was a "mistake".

I think they had a rule to remove any gay related stuff that got reported.  Usually it would work because most people don't have their own blog to get the news out.  They only changed their minds because of all the bad publicity they received.

You also have to consider that it's illegal to discriminate in the EU, like this.  So Facebook could have received a huge fine for this or been banned in the EU or possibly both.

And you guys keep telling me I'm overly pessimistic about bigotry.

A gay couple kicked out of a pub in Soho area of London for a simple peck on the lips.

A group of gay Labour party supporters were refused service at a pub, for nothing other than being gay.

So that's 3 homophobic things in 2 weeks, that I have read about.  How many more don't we know about?!

I've had this for a while  now {since last July} but never got around to posting it.

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Tired Gay succumbs to Dix in 200 meters

Olympic bronze medalist Walter Dix edged out Tyson Gay in the former world champion's hotly-anticipated return to the 200 meters at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meeting on Saturday.

You can read the rest of the story if you like.

It's most likely a worm that got on your computer either from going to a dodgey website or opening an infected email.

If you have a strong anti virus, that should have caught it.  All of the main anti virus companies do on-line scanning, just google " free antivirus scan online ".

That's the problem, it's not acceptable to treat other group like crap, but treating gays like crap is perfectly acceptable.

This doesn't belong in General News, because it's not "news"  and it doesn't belong here in Support because it's not related to GT.ru or ST.ru.

It belongs in Off Topic.  :police:

I agree, it is harassment and bullying.

However, as I pointed out, if he had made similar sorts of comments about any other group, he would have gotten in trouble immediately.

There are legal issues such as DoMA which forbids the US government from recognizing gay relationships.  This means that gay partners/spouses can not get any of the benefits hetero spouses get; ie base housing, free medical care, etc, etc, etc, etc.  They are going to have to work out a large number of issues like that before DADT can be repealed.

Also, Congress has to vote to approve the full repeal of DADT, which they can reject.

This is not a new world view of history by homophobes.  I've been hearing this claim for decades.

Let's look at the "you need to lighten up" concept outside this single issue.

A Police woman just won a a bunch of money here in Scotland because here supervisor was routinely making homophobic remarks to/about her.  She kept complaining about his constant barrage of nasty comments and every time she was told to "lighten up, he doesn't mean anything by it".

Imagine if she were black or jewish or muslim or some other group.  No one would dare tell her to "lighten up, he doesn't mean anything by it".  The supervisor would have been fired immediately.

Thanks for letting us know what fixed it so others can try that before asking the same thing.  :hug2:

The problem with doing it quickly is that there are legal issues that need to be overcome first.

What he said. ^^^^^

I tried Google and Bing before posting here.

I'm looking for Blu-ray software that does a similar job as ConvertXToDVD.

Any help is greatly appreciated.