The Daily Telegraph reports today on a new scheme being introduced in Barnsley, hitherto a bastion of pies, pints and rather bulky proles.
The scheme, which is supported by the attractively named Lesbian, Gay and Bi-sexual Forum involves the town's shops being inspected (yes, inspected) by mystery shoppers to make sure that they are "gay friendly" - if they are deemed to be so they receive a "Rainbow tick" (bucket please Matron!).
Heaven knows what lies in wait for any establishment that fails to get a "rainbow tick" - a meringue chucked at their shop window maybe? Or, perhaps they get a trio of non heterosexuals stamping their feet outside their store?
It can only be a question of time before anyone wishing to keep a Christian ambience about their premises will be thrown into jail.
What does the future hold for Catholic bloggers?
Will we be expected to place a little rainbow logo on our blogs to show that we are friendly towards people who blatantly parade their "not nice to think about" sexual preferences.
Maybe we should include an "I love adulterers" sticker or "Fraud is good".....
Who knows where such inanity will end......Wormwood Scrubs or, more likely, Strangeways!
And, just for the record:
The scheme, which is supported by the attractively named Lesbian, Gay and Bi-sexual Forum involves the town's shops being inspected (yes, inspected) by mystery shoppers to make sure that they are "gay friendly" - if they are deemed to be so they receive a "Rainbow tick" (bucket please Matron!).
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It can only be a question of time before anyone wishing to keep a Christian ambience about their premises will be thrown into jail.
What does the future hold for Catholic bloggers?
Will we be expected to place a little rainbow logo on our blogs to show that we are friendly towards people who blatantly parade their "not nice to think about" sexual preferences.
Maybe we should include an "I love adulterers" sticker or "Fraud is good".....
Who knows where such inanity will end......Wormwood Scrubs or, more likely, Strangeways!
And, just for the record:
THIS BLOG IS SYMPATHETIC TOWARDS CELIBATE HOMOSEXUALS BUT IS TOTALLY OPPOSED TO HOMOSEXUALITY
Richard: apparently the food's very good in Strangeways! Bon Appetit!!
ReplyDeleteGod bless!
In future it will be illegal to criticize homosexuality - if it isn't already so.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing I know about Barnsley is that it was referenced in a Monty Python sketch ... "Aye, 'Ampstead wasn't good enough for yer! Yer 'ad t' go poncin' off to Barnsley, yer and yer coal-minin' friends!" And now they have the Gay Police handing out "Rainbow ticks"? Well, I suppose it'll make it's silly way over here eventually.
ReplyDeleteIt brings a whole new meaning to the Barnsley chop.
ReplyDeleteI am interviewing Catholic doctors and med students at the moment for a newspaper article. One of them mentioned some facts of life for the gay population that are not for the faint hearted.
ReplyDeleteIt is quite common to talk of women getting cervial cancer because of the HPV virus, but less is known/it's far less publicised that the incidences of anal cancer caused by the HPV virus is increasingly common among gay men...
Hi Mary
ReplyDeleteThat information needs to get out into the public arena, hopefully, your article will bring it to the fore.
Good providence!
Jane - You sound very well acquainted with the menu!
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Tony, hilariously funny especially as Barnsley, as you will have guessed, is a heavy industrial, ex mining community, rough and tough!
ReplyDeleteDear Mary....
ReplyDeleteYes... please.....get that article printed about the effects of same sex...sex. Canada is trying to keep secret right now is that most of the health care $'s are going towards STD's, and that the cost of care for practicing gays is skyrocketing!!!
I know of someone fired simply for pointing out that his boss, a homosexual, didn't have a family and couldn't understand that he needed at least one day a week to spend time with them.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the apocalypse!
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ReplyDeleteMy husband and I were walking through Soho earlier this week on our way to a restaurant, and I noticed that a printing (photocopying etc.) business had a little rainbow flag up in its window. I wondered what possible difference "gay friendly" photocopying (which was presumably the meaning of the flag) would make. Any suggestions?
ReplyDelete...and while we're at it: GIVE US BACK OUR RAINBOW! I *hate* the way it's been appropriated.
When the Iraq war started, I put a rainbow flag with 'peace' written on it out my window thinking it was meant to represent anti-war sentiments - my 13 year old son pulled it in fast but wouldn't tell me why!
ReplyDeleteI though it was because he was embarrassed because we lived in a military area and he didn't want to offend school friends whose fathers might be fighting in the war.
I am affraid the wrong end of the stick has been grasped here. People dont go into shops and give them a rating. People have to apply to be part of the scheme and then their evidence of how they support LGBT people is looked at and then an award is given and further support and training given to address inequalities. The secret shoppers as they have been called is a post card system where people can give feedback on their experiences of the establishment.
ReplyDeleteIt is all very slating the scheme, but when hate crime is on the increase and people feel threatened surely the best thing is to address the issue and help increase awareness?
Andrew - hate crime? Why should homosexuals be treated any differently from Catholics or Lollipop Ladies or OAPs?
ReplyDeletePlease don't tell a Catholic about hate crime.
I did not say they shoudl be treated any differently than anyone else...hate crime is hate crime no matter who it is against. The scheme has been set up to promote equality as there have been incidents where things have happened to same sex couples that would not happen to heterosexual couples in public places.
ReplyDeleteIf woman were still banned from entering places there would be an uproar, but when it is same sex couples and they make a fuss we are told we want special treatment....not true, just equal treatment
Andrew - we can have a Sikh, Muslim or Hindu monarch on the throne, they may be Homosexual, Bisexual or even Trisexual if it exists but they cannot be Catholic.
ReplyDeleteWe just need to accept inequality from time to time and get on with life rather than making up rather weird regulations for some people to subscribe to.
There is also, inherent in your comment, an indication that homosexual relationships are the same as heterosexual. We do not believe this to be the case. Sorry.
And that is your right, and I respect your right. My main point in the original post is to address what the original author put about how it would happen with the mystery shoppers where the case is you have to apply to be in the scheme and the only secret shoppers are postcards to give feedback.
ReplyDeleteAndrew, if that is the case, I apologise for misleading. I took my information direct from the Telegraph report.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I think it a fine point and one that does not change, overly, what I was trying to say.
I just wanted to address the balance as one of the people working with the rainbow tick here in Barnsley. I have not commented on here to create any animosity or confliction as I do believe there is no reason to do so. Many thanks
ReplyDeleteAndrew, no animosity whasoever, just a difference of opinion. God bless.
ReplyDeleteOr, even, whatsoever!
ReplyDeleteThank you and the same to you and the followers of your blog
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