These comments are un-moderated and do not necessarily represent the views of PinkNews.co.uk. If you believe that a comment is inappropriate or libellous please click "Report" or email us. Terms and Conditions · Privacy Policy
London: Gay couple threatened with death in violent late night homophobic assault
141
Government considers watered down same-sex marriage bill to minimise Tory rebellion
133
Tory MP Gerald Howarth: 'There are plenty in the aggressive homosexual community who want more than just same-sex marriage'
94
France: Far right activist commits suicide in Notre Dame following legalisation of equal marriage
93
Philip Hammond: 'No great demand for gay marriage and it's upsetting vast numbers of people'
73
Government to consider abolishing civil partnerships or opening up to straight couples
68
Norman Tebbit: David Cameron has 'f**** things up' with his equal marriage bill
66
David Cameron: Gay teenagers will stand that bit taller following equal marriage vote
63
Tory MP Sir Gerald Howarth defends 'aggressive homosexual community' equal marriage slur
63
Lib Dem Deputy Leader Simon Hughes: 'Marriage should be between one man and one woman'
58
Robert in S. Kensington 703
GulliverUK 353
Jock S. Trap 345
Mark Y 328
Iris 324
That There Other David 296
Tim 296
Rehan 292
Midnighter 281
Wingby 277
They want to burn books do they; first and last resort of dictators and tyrants! How would they feel if Gay people burnt bibles!!!
Let them burn them – as long as they pay for it first. And after they have been reminded that it will contribute to higher carbon dioxide levels. We had a whole collection of bibles given out free at school by the Gideons, which doubled up nicely for wrapping glassware when we moved house. You can make a resource from anything, it seems.
Evidently these people have either never heard of Adolf Hitler or have pin-ups of him on their walls.
defending civil liberties by undermining them?
Freedom through censorship!
Morons, pond scum…
Let them burn them – so long as they’ve paid for them. They have no cause to complain then when people start burning bibles.
Oi, that’s what I said, copycat ;)
They make this book sound so interesting – I just bought a copy! :)
@Monkeychops, Re: wrapping glassware
LOL, you irreverent you. You and your glassware will end up in hell now…
And they call themselves land of the free?
But if this book should be banned and burnt then so should the bible and any other religious text of a bigoted nature.
Just bought a copy from Amazon for .01p plus pp to see what all the fuss was about. An an old fart of a gay activist this is the reason why I am against Pride these days with the loss of activism as the freedom and rights enjoyed today is under threat from these religious fundamentalists.
You confounded BLOCKHEADS, NO Book of any Kind should Burn, Not one Page. Set the Soul of Man on Fire, You Cretins. To burn any work of Literature is a sacrifice to Mans utter stupidity.
@Valerio – It may be hell, but it will contain the finest drinking recepticles that the devil has ever sipped from. Now where’s my bottle of Bollinger gone?
Bless you Derick for all your old fart activism over the years. But I still think we should support Pride. One should never underestimate the power of visibility and that visibility is of itself activism in the positive ‘We are here’ message for a lot of struggling young – and not so young – people.
The plaintiff’s mental and emotional well-being was damaged a long time ago, when people started to fill their brains with religious bull-shit. And if burning a book is not a hate-crime: look what happened in Germany some seventy years ago, and what followed afterwards.
Christians used to be burnt as they were found offensive. It could be time for a revival…
Monkeychops: “We had a whole collection of bibles given out free at school by the Gideons, which doubled up nicely for wrapping glassware when we moved house.”
What were you wrapping? Shot glasses? ;)
As soon as someone starts talking about book burning, you KNOW they’ve got a screw lose.
“They make this book sound so interesting – I just bought a copy!” Me too :o)
Give these idiots a copy of Fahrenheit 451 – on the other hand, don’t bother, they’d probably burn it because Vonnegut was a humanist.
…and for Goddess sake don’t tell them about ‘Witch Baby’ lol
The English student that still resides in me (six years after university) is horrified at the burning of any book, even a horrible one. I mean, I wouldn’t even have Mein Kampf or Ann Coulter’s drivel burned, despite being a member of the Politically Correct Brigade. Plus, it’s a waste of paper.
Christian Fundamentalists – A strategic promotional strategy.
1. Promote anything that is slightly anti-Christian or gay
2. Send then a copy
3. Wait for them to be offend
4. Reap the unrelenting publicity and sales
5, Do not worry about the law suits, the sales will cover this and still leave you with a profit
Market the CFR way – Christian Fundamentalists Rantings
The new good news for marketing gay businesses everywhere
These people are anti-christians for they live, breathe and dish out hate, and to ask for damages against a book, they want to burn is acinine.
It would be better to have them go into a lab for mental adjustment..I’m sure they wouldn’t like that…this is the same of wanting to burn a book, which is symbolic, of the Inquistion right to burn people not books…these people are more than hatemongers, they are potential criminials, by their own actions.
“Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn human beings.” Heinrich Heine
Sounds great, let them burn their books. The author is protected by the First Amendment, and the American constitution makes no provision for hurt feelings. So these senile gentlemen are losing their savings as well as their marbles.
The First AMendment also allows them to burn books – all they need to do is buy their own copy, take it home, and put it on the fire. What’s the problem?
It would be nice to have the address of their legal team, to whom we can send burnt Bible pages to, though.
This week they burn books they don’t like …. next week they burn people they don’t agree with!!!!
No doubt they thought the Nazis were nice God-fearing people!!!!!
I wouldn’t insult pond scum by making a comparison!
Ahh, now there’s the true colours showing through. Nothing like would-be fascists showing their real identities with a good book-burning session. So they were offended by the book being in their local library were they eh? Does that mean I can take any texts with a remotely anti-gay stance from my library and burn them too? No, I didn’t think so, but nor would I want to.
I look forward to seeing this complaint laughed out of court.
Those who burn books, will burn people.
Burn Burn Burn
Let the books burn
Let every one see how ridulous, paranoid and extreme these people are
“Those who burn books, will burn people.”
In the case of christian, Sammy, they want to go back to being able to freely burn people. They did it many times before in the name of god. The Spanish Inquisition was the “Belle Époque” of christianity.
I urge everyone who cares about freedom of speech to buy a copy of this book. Go to your library, and ask them to get it. If you have lots of money, buy a hundred copies.
Around the world there is child slavery, child murder, rape and torture, a large portion of the world dies of starvation every day of every week. A large percentage of america lives in abject poverty and has no healthcare, and all these d*ck headed religious extremists can do is squander money going to court because of a work of fiction.
These relicious fascists are d*ckheads of the worst kind. Myabe they need to fully study the rise of fascism in Pre-Nazi Germany.
Burn books, and you burn humanity. Fools.
The great library of Alexandria was “Accidentally” burnt down by the Romans during the Roman Civil War 48 BC. Academics have mused that this dreadful event set human civilisation back several centuries because of all the lost knowledge and thoughts contained within. as far as I am concerned Libraries should be treated with as much (if not more) respect than religious buildings; they are in fact temples to knowledge and the human spirit; so LEAVE THE BOOKS ALONE!!!!!!
J Mathews, Mike.
You two are just about the only ones who can see sence and speak it. Only mindless cretins would advocate burning books. We would all be the poorer fof lack of Literature of any kind.
They can burn what they like as long as they buy it. It’s their copy. Just as much as it’s my right to buy a bible or Koran and burn that. However, the ludicrous thing is that burning a book, especially in this day and age, is absolutely pointless when everything is online and easy to procure in one way or another. Burning a copy won’t stop people getting hold of the other thousands or however many copies. I wouldn’t even find it symbolic, just a waste of paper. I feel the same about burning flags – pointless and wasteful. Nothing more, nothing less.
Now, if they managed to get a court injunction to censor/prohibit the book, that’s something else – that is curbing freedom of speech and expression. Everyone should get on their feet to oppose it. Until then, let them get on with it and pay little attention to something that is, quite simply, not going to achieve anything.
Lilith:
as Vonnegut sasid: (I hope I quote this corectly) ‘regardless of what anyone tells you we where put on this earth to dick adound.’
Kind of puts book burning into perspective…
As to the individual who said no books should be burned: you, sir, have my wholesale agrement and respect.
Monkeychops,
You are what you say you are, But a brainless Monkey to boot!
Remember when all those hate-filled parents tried to ban King&King???? Same thing here. I used to own a gay and lesbian bookstore and still have a few copies of this book and others by this same author. If all those people claim mental stress at having the book in the library, well perhaps, they shouldn’t make their way to the gay section,,,duh.
By the way, I would not advocate burning the bible. I would not burn the Koran, Mein Kampf or the Communist manifesto even though I do not agree with any of them; they are human thoughts, albiet ones many people disagree with. People have a right to decide to read these books and draw their own conclusions. Many people have rerad them and thought exactly the opposite of the authors at the end of them (and I wouldn’t even burn a Mills & Boon; we all need our fantasies ;-0)
[Now, if they managed to get a court injunction to censor/prohibit the book, that's something else - that is curbing freedom of speech and expression. Everyone should get on their feet to oppose it. Until then,]
Does that mean you will oppose the homo in Canada who objected to a Christian Minister posting on his blog his thoughts on homosexuality as recorded in the Bilble and after reading it complained to the Human Rights Commision and said that he felt vilified and distraught as a result. The Commission jailed the Minister and told him he was not to say anything ever again about homosexuality.
Of course the Commision did not ask the homo how he was vilified or made distraught. Don’t you think that is the curtailment of freedom of speech and a miscarriage of justice inasmuch as the complainant did not have to prove anything?
I’m assuming, Tiglathpilser, that you know how offensive the term “homo” is?
As I haven’t seen the evidence in the case you quote I can’t comment on it. I can however say that hate speech differs from a story that offends merely because it offers a positive view of homosexuality rather than the spitefulview many Xians have of it (“abomination” isn’t a nice word even if you make your god use it!)
“Does that mean you will oppose the homo in Canada who objected to a Christian Minister posting on his blog his thoughts on homosexuality as recorded in the Bible”
It means we will oppose, as any rational thinking and evolved person would, the use of the bible as a means to oppose scientific knowledge, human rights, or the freedoms of another.
Yup, same old homophobes at it again. Sick in their f**king head. Here in American we need to first fight religious terrorism here at home, and worry about it elsewhere later.
Oh yes, btw, I did actually find a bible in the street a month ago, virtually brand new. I have the perfect use for it. It is kept in the bathroom, not for reading, but for when the mood strikes me to send these christian taliban a messsage.
And as soon as I figure out how to edit videos, I will put this books fate up on youtube.
If Mary had only had a coathanger to undo what a roman soldier did to her against her will. In those days, the Jews were a vicious group (Ps I am actually Jewish) – a woman not a virgin on her wedding day would get taken to the house of her father and stoned to death. BTW, if you Brits have most likely heard of the homophobic Palin bible thumper and her whore daughter, I am waiting ms palin, for you to stone your daughter to death. It’s in the bible dearie
But this crazy biz by the christian freakouts (yes there are lots of really good christians btw) shows that they realize they are losing the battle. To hell with them. Give them to the Afghan Taliban for the Taliban pleasure. It would be a fitting end.
And lets make sure that whenever we run into youth who think they are or may be gay, – I often talk to such kids at pride events, be sure to tell them that they are all part of God’s creation and there is nothing wrong with being gay, except in the minds of the religious nazis, many of whom belong to the church headed by a guy named NAZInger (oops Ratzinger). Seig Hiel, Mein Churchfuhrer. I suggest you buy yourself a fire resistant suit for when you meet your maker.
[1.I'm assuming, Tiglathpilser, that you know how offensive the term "homo" is?]
And I assume that you know how offensive everything is to homos if you don’t agree with them which only reinforces the fact that central to their problems is rejection.
[As I haven't seen the evidence in the case you quote I can't comment on it.]
Surprise, surprise!! I thought homos knew everything.
[I can however say that hate speech differs from a story that offends merely because it offers a positive view of homosexuality rather than the spitefulview many Xians have of it ("abomination" isn't a nice word even if you make your god use it!)]
I didn’t make my God use it. He chose it himself.
[It means we will oppose, as any rational thinking and evolved person would, the use of the bible as a means to oppose scientific knowledge, human rights, or the freedoms of another.]
But not if they don’t agree with your demands obviously. Or in other words, we believe in freedom of speech for everyone who agrees with us and gives in to all our demands.
“The plaintiffs, all of whom are elderly, claim their mental and emotional well-being was damaged by this book at the library.”
My goodness they’re laying it on fairly thick. How exactly were they damaged by this book??