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	<title>Comments on: Torchwood&#8217;s John Barrowman bashes bishop over homophobic remarks</title>
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		<title>By: John Robert Walsh</title>
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		<dc:creator>John Robert Walsh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Who cares about gays anyway except silly people who believe in a god and other silly billys who follow Islam.
To me they all the same just another set of fools who think they know best and everybody else is just a fool.

I dont care about any of them they can all go to hell in a handcart for all I care.

There is no such thing as homosexuality its just a personal preference the same as there is no god its just for people who are afraid of death and want their silly little lives to mean something, 

Well your lives dont mean anything and unless you do something great in this life for the benefit of a great deal of people you will be forgotten by your great grandchildren let alone the rest of us.

I will admit though that being gay does seem to produce
 people to be great, like lawrence of Arabia
Alan Turing and the most of the British acting profession</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who cares about gays anyway except silly people who believe in a god and other silly billys who follow Islam.<br />
To me they all the same just another set of fools who think they know best and everybody else is just a fool.</p>
<p>I dont care about any of them they can all go to hell in a handcart for all I care.</p>
<p>There is no such thing as homosexuality its just a personal preference the same as there is no god its just for people who are afraid of death and want their silly little lives to mean something, </p>
<p>Well your lives dont mean anything and unless you do something great in this life for the benefit of a great deal of people you will be forgotten by your great grandchildren let alone the rest of us.</p>
<p>I will admit though that being gay does seem to produce<br />
 people to be great, like lawrence of Arabia<br />
Alan Turing and the most of the British acting profession</p>
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		<title>By: Cyril Fitzgerald</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cyril Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am gay, and proud of that.  I am also proud of the fact that my creator gave me a brain.  A brain enables people to assess opinions, and varying &quot;facts&quot;, and, hopefully, arrive at a balanced conclusion.

Bishop Nazir-Ali, where, exactly, don&#039;t you acknowledge the fact that God creates humankind who are not always attracted to the opposite sex.  I know, you&#039;re going to quote me some biblical text, automatically assuming that the quote is FACT, WRONG.  Why do you automatically assume that what you believe is FACT, by the very nature of religion it is BELIEF... there&#039;s a bit of a difference, but then, because you are &quot;guided&quot;/&quot;instructed&quot; by &quot;God&quot;, obviously you are correct in your biggoted beliefs.  
Does St. Anselm&#039;s Ontological Argument SPELL OUT the irony of your believing that what you are saying is FACT?  I guess not.... YAWN...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am gay, and proud of that.  I am also proud of the fact that my creator gave me a brain.  A brain enables people to assess opinions, and varying &#8220;facts&#8221;, and, hopefully, arrive at a balanced conclusion.</p>
<p>Bishop Nazir-Ali, where, exactly, don&#8217;t you acknowledge the fact that God creates humankind who are not always attracted to the opposite sex.  I know, you&#8217;re going to quote me some biblical text, automatically assuming that the quote is FACT, WRONG.  Why do you automatically assume that what you believe is FACT, by the very nature of religion it is BELIEF&#8230; there&#8217;s a bit of a difference, but then, because you are &#8220;guided&#8221;/&#8221;instructed&#8221; by &#8220;God&#8221;, obviously you are correct in your biggoted beliefs.<br />
Does St. Anselm&#8217;s Ontological Argument SPELL OUT the irony of your believing that what you are saying is FACT?  I guess not&#8230;. YAWN&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: barriejohn</title>
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		<dc:creator>barriejohn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>More about the &lt;i&gt;Life of Brian&lt;/i&gt; debate at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinema.com/articles/2766/life-of-brian-the-background-story.phtml&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.cinema.com/articles/2766/life-of-brian...&lt;/a&gt; . I`d quite forgotten that Lady Stockwood`s parting (cheap) shot was: &quot;You`ll get your thirty pieces of silver.&quot; What an odious, hypocritical bastard! </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>More about the <i>Life of Brian</i> debate at <a href="http://www.cinema.com/articles/2766/life-of-brian-the-background-story.phtml" target="_blank">http://www.cinema.com/articles.....ian&#8230;</a> . I`d quite forgotten that Lady Stockwood`s parting (cheap) shot was: &quot;You`ll get your thirty pieces of silver.&quot; What an odious, hypocritical bastard!</p>
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		<title>By: barriejohn</title>
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		<dc:creator>barriejohn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How very right you are! How many other readers remember that (in)famous television &quot;debate&quot; on &lt;i&gt;The Life of Brian&lt;/i&gt;, when Cleese and Palin were so mercilessly attacked by Malcolm Muggeridge and Mervyn Stockwood, Anglican Bishop of Southwark. Stockwood was a rampant homosexual, who absolutely loved all the trappings of his office, despite being a so-called socialist. He sat in his chair, obviously relishing all the media attention, adorned in his flowing robes, and wearing a cross which Michael Palin remarked on as being the biggest he had ever seen, I believe! Shortly before his death Stockwood was one of the ten C of E bishops &quot;outed&quot; by &lt;i&gt;Outrage&lt;/i&gt;, though their names were not generally published in England until the era of the internet, more`s the pity!! </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How very right you are! How many other readers remember that (in)famous television &quot;debate&quot; on <i>The Life of Brian</i>, when Cleese and Palin were so mercilessly attacked by Malcolm Muggeridge and Mervyn Stockwood, Anglican Bishop of Southwark. Stockwood was a rampant homosexual, who absolutely loved all the trappings of his office, despite being a so-called socialist. He sat in his chair, obviously relishing all the media attention, adorned in his flowing robes, and wearing a cross which Michael Palin remarked on as being the biggest he had ever seen, I believe! Shortly before his death Stockwood was one of the ten C of E bishops &quot;outed&quot; by <i>Outrage</i>, though their names were not generally published in England until the era of the internet, more`s the pity!!</p>
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		<title>By: barriejohn</title>
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		<dc:creator>barriejohn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes. the man`s a cunt, but then he`s a member of the Establishment, isn`t he? Go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.petertatchell.net/hate%20crimes/damilola.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.petertatchell.net/hate%20crimes/damilo...&lt;/a&gt; for the full story.  </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes. the man`s a cunt, but then he`s a member of the Establishment, isn`t he? Go to <a href="http://www.petertatchell.net/hate%20crimes/damilola.htm" target="_blank">http://www.petertatchell.net/h.....ilo&#8230;</a> for the full story.</p>
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		<title>By: barriejohn</title>
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		<dc:creator>barriejohn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>PS There are some very funny cartoons again, as usual!  
 
&lt;i&gt;The Burqas of Calais&lt;/i&gt; (I`ll leave that to your imagination!!)  
 
&lt;i&gt;The Richard Dawkins Darwinian Summer Camp: &quot;I`m sorry, Cuthbert, but because you came last in the running race...you must die.&quot; &lt;/i&gt;!!!  
 
For the rest, buy your own copy! (&#163;1.50 from all disreputable newsagents.) </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PS There are some very funny cartoons again, as usual!  </p>
<p><i>The Burqas of Calais</i> (I`ll leave that to your imagination!!)  </p>
<p><i>The Richard Dawkins Darwinian Summer Camp: &quot;I`m sorry, Cuthbert, but because you came last in the running race&#8230;you must die.&quot; </i>!!!  </p>
<p>For the rest, buy your own copy! (&pound;1.50 from all disreputable newsagents.)</p>
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		<title>By: barriejohn</title>
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		<dc:creator>barriejohn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Shock! Horror! &lt;i&gt;Private Eye&lt;/i&gt; has stolen all our best jokes from off this site!!  
 
&quot;BISHOPS MUST REPENT&quot; Says Tatchell&lt;i&gt; by Aza Nazi-Rally&lt;/i&gt;. 
 
The outspoken Gay Rights activist has shocked many in the Bishoping community by demanding that Bishops should &quot;repent&quot; and &quot;change their ways&quot;. 
He told reporters, &quot;It is no good saying they were born that way or that what they do is in some way natural. We all know that Bishops like dressing up in women`s clothes and hanging about in vestries with a lot of other men.&quot; 
 
BASHING THE BISHOP. 
 
&quot;I have nothing against Bishops&quot;, he went on. &quot;I am not a Bishopophobe, but you wouldn`t want your son to marry one.&quot; </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shock! Horror! <i>Private Eye</i> has stolen all our best jokes from off this site!!  </p>
<p>&quot;BISHOPS MUST REPENT&quot; Says Tatchell<i> by Aza Nazi-Rally</i>. </p>
<p>The outspoken Gay Rights activist has shocked many in the Bishoping community by demanding that Bishops should &quot;repent&quot; and &quot;change their ways&quot;.<br />
He told reporters, &quot;It is no good saying they were born that way or that what they do is in some way natural. We all know that Bishops like dressing up in women`s clothes and hanging about in vestries with a lot of other men.&quot; </p>
<p>BASHING THE BISHOP. </p>
<p>&quot;I have nothing against Bishops&quot;, he went on. &quot;I am not a Bishopophobe, but you wouldn`t want your son to marry one.&quot;</p>
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		<title>By: Skepticsteve</title>
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		<dc:creator>Skepticsteve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Like most chri$tian officials, this bishop is almost certainly just another costumed, self-hating, closeted homosexual and Barryman is wasting his time even acknowledging such a fool. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Like most chri$tian officials, this bishop is almost certainly just another costumed, self-hating, closeted homosexual and Barryman is wasting his time even acknowledging such a fool.</p>
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		<title>By: Ivan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ivan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If memory serves me right, it was Sentamu who was part of the inquiry set up to look into the killing of Damilola Taylor where he used, or rather abused,  his position to stop any discussion of allegations that Damilola had suffered homophobic taunting from the perpetrators prior to their attack on him.   
 
Given his religious stance on homosexuality, the public revulsion against homophobia that might have been stirred up by a conclusion that it played a part in Damilola&#039;s killing would have been most inconvenient to him. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If memory serves me right, it was Sentamu who was part of the inquiry set up to look into the killing of Damilola Taylor where he used, or rather abused,  his position to stop any discussion of allegations that Damilola had suffered homophobic taunting from the perpetrators prior to their attack on him.   </p>
<p>Given his religious stance on homosexuality, the public revulsion against homophobia that might have been stirred up by a conclusion that it played a part in Damilola&#039;s killing would have been most inconvenient to him.</p>
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		<title>By: barriejohn</title>
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		<dc:creator>barriejohn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Someone told me that as well! </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Someone told me that as well!</p>
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