According to this and this, amongst other sources, David Cameron may have plans afoot to ban kissing between members of the same sex on television before 9pm. What a hugely stupid idea.
It's difficult to really address the situation without just stating the obvious; particularly as I don't have any Cameron-quotes to try and counter directly. I don't know how he's trying to justify this; so there's not a great deal to dispel.
But just to reiterate what you, reader, must surely know already: this will achieve nothing other than demonising homosexuals, branding homosexual activity as wrong when a liberal, virtually-secular government should be neutral on the issue, and sending out a message that homophobia is the right way to go.
It can't be the actual imagery the Tories want to protect our children from; as the still-permitted hetero kisses will look virtually the same. So they must just be trying to deny that gays exist.
I've said it so many times: keeping homosexuality a taboo subject during primary school only ensures that children first encounter the concept through a negative, derogatory lens. It keeps understanding down, and sows division and prejudice in places where there shouldn't be.
I sincerely hope those in the House of Commons have more sense than to brand homosexuals as perverted and dirty in this way. Gay rights have come so far in Britain. Don't start turning back the clock now.
This term's Conservative party promised to the LGBT community that they were different from the Thatcher's Section 28 Tories. The fact of the matter is, they still need to prove it to us.
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