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U.K. lord links gay marriage, obesity crisis
Ben Townley, Gay.com U.K.
Friday, May 28, 2004 / 03:54 PM
Lord Tebbit, an influential conservative leader in England, continued his tirade against gay men on Thursday by claiming the country's current "obesity epidemic" can be blamed on the government's support for "buggery."
The comments came during BBC Radio 4's "Today" program, where the former cabinet minister was invited to talk about the ongoing problems of obesity across the United Kingdom.
Asked what the root causes of the problems were, Tebbit, who was made a peer in 1992, drew a tenuous link between the issue and same-sex relationships.
"The root cause of this problem, like a number of others, is the breakdown in family life," he said, arguing that families "don't so often eat together" and that "wives are virtually pressurized into feeling they ought to go to work instead of looking after their children."
He said this decline in family life was due to the current government, which he accused of doing "everything it can to promote buggery."
"The government is pursuing the breakdown of family life -- we've had one thing after another, whether it's tax policy or social policy that undermines marriage," he said.
"At the House of Lords at the moment, we have this gay marriage bill going through. This doesn't help."
"We don’t only have an epidemic of obesity, we have a huge problem with AIDS. And the government's attitude is to do everything it can to promote buggery -- knowing that those two are intimately connected."
The comments are unlikely to surprise many onlookers, who have been aware of Lord Tebbit's aversion to gay issues over the years. He has publicly stated both his support for Section 28 and his opposition to same-sex relationships before.
However, Stonewall's Director of Parliamentary Affairs Alan Wardle, who has been monitoring the House of Lords' response to the Civil Partnership Bill, said he was shocked that Tebbit had managed to incorporate the issue into this argument.
"It's quite alarming that Lord Tebbit manages to get his extreme prejudices into a discussion on obese children," he told Gay.com U.K. on Thursday.
http://www.planetout.com/news/article.html?2004/05/28/4
U.K. lord links gay marriage, obesity crisis
Ben Townley, Gay.com U.K.
Friday, May 28, 2004 / 03:54 PM
Lord Tebbit, an influential conservative leader in England, continued his tirade against gay men on Thursday by claiming the country's current "obesity epidemic" can be blamed on the government's support for "buggery."
The comments came during BBC Radio 4's "Today" program, where the former cabinet minister was invited to talk about the ongoing problems of obesity across the United Kingdom.
Asked what the root causes of the problems were, Tebbit, who was made a peer in 1992, drew a tenuous link between the issue and same-sex relationships.
"The root cause of this problem, like a number of others, is the breakdown in family life," he said, arguing that families "don't so often eat together" and that "wives are virtually pressurized into feeling they ought to go to work instead of looking after their children."
He said this decline in family life was due to the current government, which he accused of doing "everything it can to promote buggery."
"The government is pursuing the breakdown of family life -- we've had one thing after another, whether it's tax policy or social policy that undermines marriage," he said.
"At the House of Lords at the moment, we have this gay marriage bill going through. This doesn't help."
"We don’t only have an epidemic of obesity, we have a huge problem with AIDS. And the government's attitude is to do everything it can to promote buggery -- knowing that those two are intimately connected."
The comments are unlikely to surprise many onlookers, who have been aware of Lord Tebbit's aversion to gay issues over the years. He has publicly stated both his support for Section 28 and his opposition to same-sex relationships before.
However, Stonewall's Director of Parliamentary Affairs Alan Wardle, who has been monitoring the House of Lords' response to the Civil Partnership Bill, said he was shocked that Tebbit had managed to incorporate the issue into this argument.
"It's quite alarming that Lord Tebbit manages to get his extreme prejudices into a discussion on obese children," he told Gay.com U.K. on Thursday.
http://www.planetout.com/news/article.html?2004/05/28/4
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