Phony Blair tries to pass off civil unions as "equality"
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... Thursday night ... Blair delivered the keynote address at a dinner for Stonewall, the UK's biggest gay rights organization -- making Blair what is believed to be the first time a national leader has addressed an LGBT civil rights group while still in office.
Blair told the guests at London's ritzy Dorchester Hotel that one of his proudest accomplishments has been in enacting a national LGBT civil rights law and the passage of Britain's partnership unions law that gives gay couples all of the rights of marriage, although not the name.
Blair said the partnership law gave him "real joy". He said when the first set of ceremonies took place he did "a little skip" in celebration."
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"[By] taking a stand on this issue and by removing a piece of prejudice and discrimination, and by enabling people to stand proud as what they are, it has had an impact that I think is far more profound on the way the country thinks about itself."
The fact that all major political parties are now in favor of equality is a "fantastic thing" Blair said, pointing to the work Stonewall did in educating lawmakers.
Dear Phony -- your government, despite the best efforts of your bigoted Communities Minister, may have removed "a piece of prejudice", but you have not removed it all. Separate-but-equal is not equality, no matter how much lipstick you slather on that pig. And also, we don't need your magnaminity or some second-class status to stand proud as who we are". We have been doing that for decades, no matter what the cultists and the crazies threw against us. We ARE proud, and we don't need approval from straights for that. But as long as "all major political parties are now in favor of equality" ....... how about recognizing it? |
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