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		<title>By: douglas in canada</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/18/gay-disco-could-offend-christians/#comment-102989</link>
		<dc:creator>douglas in canada</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>1] good friday celebrations are normally a morning event in churches.  They would be finished and everyone long gone home by early afternoon, so the mood should have cleared by the evening.

2] Is anyone checking to see that no other &quot;offensive&quot; events are happening in that community?  Or was this event deemed &quot;offensive&quot; only because it was happening in a &quot;community centre&quot;?  Maybe the event should be moved to a private venue.

If the move to a private venue would work for people, then those offended by christianity should be able to request/demand that christian events happen ONLY in the privacy of a church, and not out in the open, where they can cause offense.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1] good friday celebrations are normally a morning event in churches.  They would be finished and everyone long gone home by early afternoon, so the mood should have cleared by the evening.</p>
<p>2] Is anyone checking to see that no other &#8220;offensive&#8221; events are happening in that community?  Or was this event deemed &#8220;offensive&#8221; only because it was happening in a &#8220;community centre&#8221;?  Maybe the event should be moved to a private venue.</p>
<p>If the move to a private venue would work for people, then those offended by christianity should be able to request/demand that christian events happen ONLY in the privacy of a church, and not out in the open, where they can cause offense.</p>
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		<title>By: Patrick</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/18/gay-disco-could-offend-christians/#comment-102898</link>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I came across this site looking at an article to do with kele from bloc party, but when i saw an article about the pope i wondered what sort of comments there would be. Im shocked. Ive seen the pope being called evil, a demon, paedophilie, nazi as well as many people wishing someone would kill him on his visit.
For a forum for a group who are trying to fight for &#039;equality&#039;, you all, apart from a couple of people, undermine your cause. You are projecting hatred on those who dissaprove of a certain aspect of your way of life, and this is certainly not a solution.
I can tell from the posts that many of you display distrust and angst towards the &#039;church&#039; and religion in general. No doubt because of unjust discrimination and as i said earlier, hate, that you most likely would have experianced. The reason is a lack of understanding from the POV of many but not all religious groups. I, myself am a christian and a homosexual, but not a &#039;practicing&#039; homosexual as i would call it. I am against homosexuality but not against homosexuals because i belive we are all equal. If any of you were to read the bible, which i doubt any of you have seeing as how critical of all religions the general comments are, you would find the same view within. Its surprising how much people focus the institution and figure heads and negate to even concider that its function is to support the belifies of the bible. You could call be &#039;brainwashed&#039; or &#039;indoctrinated&#039;, but I would say that I have faith in God and my belifies. I wouldnt want to impose those belifies on any of you, so the next time you use words like &#039;indoctrinated&#039; to describe someone with a different view to you just remember that doing so gives them the right to fire the same accusation back at you. Hatered, anger and violence isnt the solution to your problems. Instead of planning how to make the popes visit to the U.K as unpleasent as possible, which would be less effective than a drop in the ocean, why not try to do something constructive which will actually further your cause?
And by the way the royal family doesnt just sit in buckingham palace all day eating caviar on jewel encrusted gold thrones you know. The two young princes have both served in the army and both work for many charities…. for free! The pope was in the hitler youth army which is the modern day equivalent of scouts and doesnt really make him a nazi. No.28, the pope cant excommunicate hitler because hes dead. Patrick, some guy already said earlier that the crusades were started by the muslims, and besides, events that occured about 600 years ago shouldnt be anything to hold a grudge over. And i think you will find that muslims are a lot less understanding to gays than the pope is. 


Comment by CC — March 20, 2010 @ 22:08



Well well cc &quot;catholic curate&quot; by any chance…..so we are all wrong to be lambasting those whose sole purpose in life is to make life as unpleasant as possible for others and go around dressed in frocks raping little children or at very least ..as in the case of the Vile sean brady being apologist for them and covering up their vile acts by making little children sign confidentiality clauses and then allowing the perpetrators to go on for another 20 years raping and abusing children before he is caught.

I see from your post that you adhere to the teachings of the bible , just about the most evil book ever published. A book that was ccompiled over three to five thousand years by a fearful band of desert tribes who were 100% illiterate and so their paranoid stories were for thousands of years passed dowe orally.
Then along came Emperor Constantine who deceided that, like the Egyptians, he needed a religeon to consolidate his power and picke up on a small sect that had been around for a couple of hundred years or so and made it his Thing if you will.
He invented most of its &quot;miracles&quot;, prayers and so on , like the creed and its founder, a mythical figure called Jesus Christ who supposedly was, like most of the Egyptian Gods before , born of a virgin , who , and i kid you not, remained a virgin after his birth and ran with it and made it into a world religeon by playing on the fears and superstitions of a vastly uneducated people.
Fast forward another thousand years or so and we have another despot , king James who deceided that he would compile his version and so we were saddled with the King james bible, that was to wreak havoc on the rest of the world for another 5/600 years until people started to be educated and think for themselves. Meanwhile the decendants of Constantine went on to found Roman Catholicism and spent the last 1500 years raping and sadistically abusing those they professsed to protect. And all under the protection of their own made up laws …Cannon Law which noone dared to question under pain of Excommunication, which to uneducated people who knew no better, meant damnation in hell (wherever that is ) for eternity.
Its a bit rich of any christian to sit and pass judgment on anyone about violence , when the religeon you profess has just about the most vilont history on this planet, all in the name of a myth propagated by an organisation solely engaged in rape and sadistic abuse of human beings ,but especially children almost from its inception.
you can call that a hate filled rant is you dare , but be prepared to point out where you think it is wrong. That , whether you like it or not, is the factual history of religeon and if your limited education allows, you can research and prove all of the above to be true. By the way i forgot the inquisition, the slaughter of the Native american , the slaughter of almost the entire original inhabitants of the entire American continent in the name of christianity.
I feel neither hatred anger or violence towards anyone caught up in this evil cult,only pity and some alarm that they still cling to such nonsense in the twenty first century when proof of their delusion is staring them and us all in the face.
I dont know whether you are british or not but your lack of knowledge of for instance the windsors would indicate that you are not. Well grab hold of this pet.. the parasites who currently inhabit buck house are just that. They have never until recently paid any taxs on their vast wealth and the taxes they do pay now were negoitaited with a condescending tory government and are way below what ordinary citizens of this country pay.
They claim that there wouldnt be any tourists without them, but Ireland, a much smaller country with a population a tenth in size that of the Uk, has about three times the tourist traffic of the UK and it doesnt have any parasites leeching off the population

It may be that the two youngest members of this clan of parasites are in the army but that is a ploy by which to keep the natives quiet,as was their decision to pay SOME TAXES, so that they will be seen as being somehow patriotic britons and fool everyone.

Contrary to your assertion that the exnazi paedophile protector currently installed in Rome cant excommunicate Hitler, it didnt stop them excommunicating in the past when even dumb animals could be excomunnicsted. He did however re communicate the Holocaust denier bishop and gave him an important job in the cesspool they call the Vatican. I hold no grudge against anyone, but especially the deluded,because i recognise that they are indoctrinated and for the most part do not possess the intellectual faculties to tear themselves away from the irrational fears engenderd by such delusion. As for the crusades you are entirely wrong to say the also deluded Muslims started the crusades,just because they invaded Spain and settled peacefully there until attacked and ejected by a paranoid catholic church as were the Jews, and who wanted an entirely christian europe. Much the same as was seen in recent times when the Christian serbs tried to ethnically cleanse the Baltic of muslims and hitler who tried to rid europe of the Jews. and finally. your assertion that the nation of islam is more homophobic than the pope, well you seem to forget that their faith also springs from that same Abrahamic myth.
so when you take me on be sure you know what you are talking about,cc</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I came across this site looking at an article to do with kele from bloc party, but when i saw an article about the pope i wondered what sort of comments there would be. Im shocked. Ive seen the pope being called evil, a demon, paedophilie, nazi as well as many people wishing someone would kill him on his visit.<br />
For a forum for a group who are trying to fight for &#8216;equality&#8217;, you all, apart from a couple of people, undermine your cause. You are projecting hatred on those who dissaprove of a certain aspect of your way of life, and this is certainly not a solution.<br />
I can tell from the posts that many of you display distrust and angst towards the &#8216;church&#8217; and religion in general. No doubt because of unjust discrimination and as i said earlier, hate, that you most likely would have experianced. The reason is a lack of understanding from the POV of many but not all religious groups. I, myself am a christian and a homosexual, but not a &#8216;practicing&#8217; homosexual as i would call it. I am against homosexuality but not against homosexuals because i belive we are all equal. If any of you were to read the bible, which i doubt any of you have seeing as how critical of all religions the general comments are, you would find the same view within. Its surprising how much people focus the institution and figure heads and negate to even concider that its function is to support the belifies of the bible. You could call be &#8216;brainwashed&#8217; or &#8216;indoctrinated&#8217;, but I would say that I have faith in God and my belifies. I wouldnt want to impose those belifies on any of you, so the next time you use words like &#8216;indoctrinated&#8217; to describe someone with a different view to you just remember that doing so gives them the right to fire the same accusation back at you. Hatered, anger and violence isnt the solution to your problems. Instead of planning how to make the popes visit to the U.K as unpleasent as possible, which would be less effective than a drop in the ocean, why not try to do something constructive which will actually further your cause?<br />
And by the way the royal family doesnt just sit in buckingham palace all day eating caviar on jewel encrusted gold thrones you know. The two young princes have both served in the army and both work for many charities…. for free! The pope was in the hitler youth army which is the modern day equivalent of scouts and doesnt really make him a nazi. No.28, the pope cant excommunicate hitler because hes dead. Patrick, some guy already said earlier that the crusades were started by the muslims, and besides, events that occured about 600 years ago shouldnt be anything to hold a grudge over. And i think you will find that muslims are a lot less understanding to gays than the pope is. </p>
<p>Comment by CC — March 20, 2010 @ 22:08</p>
<p>Well well cc &#8220;catholic curate&#8221; by any chance…..so we are all wrong to be lambasting those whose sole purpose in life is to make life as unpleasant as possible for others and go around dressed in frocks raping little children or at very least ..as in the case of the Vile sean brady being apologist for them and covering up their vile acts by making little children sign confidentiality clauses and then allowing the perpetrators to go on for another 20 years raping and abusing children before he is caught.</p>
<p>I see from your post that you adhere to the teachings of the bible , just about the most evil book ever published. A book that was ccompiled over three to five thousand years by a fearful band of desert tribes who were 100% illiterate and so their paranoid stories were for thousands of years passed dowe orally.<br />
Then along came Emperor Constantine who deceided that, like the Egyptians, he needed a religeon to consolidate his power and picke up on a small sect that had been around for a couple of hundred years or so and made it his Thing if you will.<br />
He invented most of its &#8220;miracles&#8221;, prayers and so on , like the creed and its founder, a mythical figure called Jesus Christ who supposedly was, like most of the Egyptian Gods before , born of a virgin , who , and i kid you not, remained a virgin after his birth and ran with it and made it into a world religeon by playing on the fears and superstitions of a vastly uneducated people.<br />
Fast forward another thousand years or so and we have another despot , king James who deceided that he would compile his version and so we were saddled with the King james bible, that was to wreak havoc on the rest of the world for another 5/600 years until people started to be educated and think for themselves. Meanwhile the decendants of Constantine went on to found Roman Catholicism and spent the last 1500 years raping and sadistically abusing those they professsed to protect. And all under the protection of their own made up laws …Cannon Law which noone dared to question under pain of Excommunication, which to uneducated people who knew no better, meant damnation in hell (wherever that is ) for eternity.<br />
Its a bit rich of any christian to sit and pass judgment on anyone about violence , when the religeon you profess has just about the most vilont history on this planet, all in the name of a myth propagated by an organisation solely engaged in rape and sadistic abuse of human beings ,but especially children almost from its inception.<br />
you can call that a hate filled rant is you dare , but be prepared to point out where you think it is wrong. That , whether you like it or not, is the factual history of religeon and if your limited education allows, you can research and prove all of the above to be true. By the way i forgot the inquisition, the slaughter of the Native american , the slaughter of almost the entire original inhabitants of the entire American continent in the name of christianity.<br />
I feel neither hatred anger or violence towards anyone caught up in this evil cult,only pity and some alarm that they still cling to such nonsense in the twenty first century when proof of their delusion is staring them and us all in the face.<br />
I dont know whether you are british or not but your lack of knowledge of for instance the windsors would indicate that you are not. Well grab hold of this pet.. the parasites who currently inhabit buck house are just that. They have never until recently paid any taxs on their vast wealth and the taxes they do pay now were negoitaited with a condescending tory government and are way below what ordinary citizens of this country pay.<br />
They claim that there wouldnt be any tourists without them, but Ireland, a much smaller country with a population a tenth in size that of the Uk, has about three times the tourist traffic of the UK and it doesnt have any parasites leeching off the population</p>
<p>It may be that the two youngest members of this clan of parasites are in the army but that is a ploy by which to keep the natives quiet,as was their decision to pay SOME TAXES, so that they will be seen as being somehow patriotic britons and fool everyone.</p>
<p>Contrary to your assertion that the exnazi paedophile protector currently installed in Rome cant excommunicate Hitler, it didnt stop them excommunicating in the past when even dumb animals could be excomunnicsted. He did however re communicate the Holocaust denier bishop and gave him an important job in the cesspool they call the Vatican. I hold no grudge against anyone, but especially the deluded,because i recognise that they are indoctrinated and for the most part do not possess the intellectual faculties to tear themselves away from the irrational fears engenderd by such delusion. As for the crusades you are entirely wrong to say the also deluded Muslims started the crusades,just because they invaded Spain and settled peacefully there until attacked and ejected by a paranoid catholic church as were the Jews, and who wanted an entirely christian europe. Much the same as was seen in recent times when the Christian serbs tried to ethnically cleanse the Baltic of muslims and hitler who tried to rid europe of the Jews. and finally. your assertion that the nation of islam is more homophobic than the pope, well you seem to forget that their faith also springs from that same Abrahamic myth.<br />
so when you take me on be sure you know what you are talking about,cc</p>
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		<title>By: Suzi Sue</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/18/gay-disco-could-offend-christians/#comment-102863</link>
		<dc:creator>Suzi Sue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yet again we have people using Christianity as a weapon against us going about our lives. Christianity should not be able to dictate whether we have a disco or event ot not becasue Christianity is only a theory that is without a shadow of doubt based on imagination. It is time that those who have enforced the cancelation of the  event maybe read Hawkins as well as maybe exploring the alternative beliefs of Human Rights and Equality--something that the majority of Religions faile to comply with.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yet again we have people using Christianity as a weapon against us going about our lives. Christianity should not be able to dictate whether we have a disco or event ot not becasue Christianity is only a theory that is without a shadow of doubt based on imagination. It is time that those who have enforced the cancelation of the  event maybe read Hawkins as well as maybe exploring the alternative beliefs of Human Rights and Equality&#8211;something that the majority of Religions faile to comply with.</p>
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		<title>By: Patrick</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/18/gay-disco-could-offend-christians/#comment-102668</link>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2264829.ece</description>
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		<title>By: I live in homophobic Cornwall</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/18/gay-disco-could-offend-christians/#comment-102633</link>
		<dc:creator>I live in homophobic Cornwall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This event was to have been held at the ‘Miners &amp; Mechanics Institute’at St. Agnes 

As a former Chemical Mineral Flotation’s operator at one of the last Cornish tin mines, Mount Wellington, nr Bissoe, where I worked right up until its closure in 1981, I guess that makes me one of the last of the Cornish Tin miners.

…errr, I’m also gay and according to my mum, I’m also part of a family. 

The attitude of this Cornish charitable? committee smacks of blatant homophobic prejudicial attitudes which are so prevalent &amp; embedded within organizations &amp; institutions in Cornwall...in particular the police!

God (irony) knows we&#039;ve tried to raise the problem of Cornwall&#039;s inherent homophobic institutional &amp; authorities attitudes over the years...usually to be shouted down by appeasing sycophants like Intercom Trust, who are so happy to take their thirty pieces of silver (£400,000+ in funding)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This event was to have been held at the ‘Miners &amp; Mechanics Institute’at St. Agnes </p>
<p>As a former Chemical Mineral Flotation’s operator at one of the last Cornish tin mines, Mount Wellington, nr Bissoe, where I worked right up until its closure in 1981, I guess that makes me one of the last of the Cornish Tin miners.</p>
<p>…errr, I’m also gay and according to my mum, I’m also part of a family. </p>
<p>The attitude of this Cornish charitable? committee smacks of blatant homophobic prejudicial attitudes which are so prevalent &amp; embedded within organizations &amp; institutions in Cornwall&#8230;in particular the police!</p>
<p>God (irony) knows we&#8217;ve tried to raise the problem of Cornwall&#8217;s inherent homophobic institutional &amp; authorities attitudes over the years&#8230;usually to be shouted down by appeasing sycophants like Intercom Trust, who are so happy to take their thirty pieces of silver (£400,000+ in funding)</p>
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		<title>By: Anon</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/18/gay-disco-could-offend-christians/#comment-102627</link>
		<dc:creator>Anon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Unfortunately Cornwall is very backward with regard to equality...

The local Social﻿ Services, Police, Health Authority...and other institutions &amp; authorities all have reputaions of homophobic prejudice and have yet to grasp homosexuality was decriminalised in the UK over 40yrs ago.

I have file cases of homophobic abuse, intimidation, murders, hate crime incidents over a period of two decades in Cornwall...the video barely scratchs the surface.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MUiccStmHw</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unfortunately Cornwall is very backward with regard to equality&#8230;</p>
<p>The local Social﻿ Services, Police, Health Authority&#8230;and other institutions &amp; authorities all have reputaions of homophobic prejudice and have yet to grasp homosexuality was decriminalised in the UK over 40yrs ago.</p>
<p>I have file cases of homophobic abuse, intimidation, murders, hate crime incidents over a period of two decades in Cornwall&#8230;the video barely scratchs the surface.</p>
<p> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MUiccStmHw" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MUiccStmHw</a></p>
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		<title>By: Harry</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/18/gay-disco-could-offend-christians/#comment-102610</link>
		<dc:creator>Harry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The bi-sexual son of the person involved is claiming on other sites that his mother never made the remarks complained of. We shall see.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The bi-sexual son of the person involved is claiming on other sites that his mother never made the remarks complained of. We shall see.</p>
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		<title>By: theotherone</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/18/gay-disco-could-offend-christians/#comment-102591</link>
		<dc:creator>theotherone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>alas alan for these people the idea that there are Queers in the world is a pressing concern.

I believe the phrase is &#039;get a life.&#039;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>alas alan for these people the idea that there are Queers in the world is a pressing concern.</p>
<p>I believe the phrase is &#8216;get a life.&#8217;</p>
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		<title>By: Alan</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/18/gay-disco-could-offend-christians/#comment-102588</link>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is funny when you go on the gay chat room,there are lots of Christians on there, It willonly upset a few. But nobody seems to worry about the number of gay people that will be upset by this rubbish.

God made us all so what give a NON gay christian the right to say who can have a disco or not.

As I gay person I would not get upset if a NON gay christian has a disco.

So why should they when it is the other way around.

There are much more important things to worry about.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is funny when you go on the gay chat room,there are lots of Christians on there, It willonly upset a few. But nobody seems to worry about the number of gay people that will be upset by this rubbish.</p>
<p>God made us all so what give a NON gay christian the right to say who can have a disco or not.</p>
<p>As I gay person I would not get upset if a NON gay christian has a disco.</p>
<p>So why should they when it is the other way around.</p>
<p>There are much more important things to worry about.</p>
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		<title>By: Yewtree</title>
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		<dc:creator>Yewtree</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>... and due to the likelihood of high concentrations of homophobes</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230; and due to the likelihood of high concentrations of homophobes</p>
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		<title>By: Yewtree</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/18/gay-disco-could-offend-christians/#comment-102572</link>
		<dc:creator>Yewtree</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>BREAKING NEWS... Christian discos could offend gays... (due to lack of anyone having any fun at them)

FFS.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BREAKING NEWS&#8230; Christian discos could offend gays&#8230; (due to lack of anyone having any fun at them)</p>
<p>FFS.</p>
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		<title>By: Chester</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/18/gay-disco-could-offend-christians/#comment-102566</link>
		<dc:creator>Chester</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>a minority of christians are not homophobes</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>a minority of christians are not homophobes</p>
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		<title>By: theotherone</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/18/gay-disco-could-offend-christians/#comment-102558</link>
		<dc:creator>theotherone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i just had a look matt, they&#039;re still there. you have to click the option to see friends posts and you&#039;ll see them.

only three so far - come on folks, I&#039;m sure more than three of us have facebook accounts.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i just had a look matt, they&#8217;re still there. you have to click the option to see friends posts and you&#8217;ll see them.</p>
<p>only three so far &#8211; come on folks, I&#8217;m sure more than three of us have facebook accounts.</p>
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		<title>By: dave</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/18/gay-disco-could-offend-christians/#comment-102554</link>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have just phoned the national lottery fund and spoken to some one who was very heplful and have asked them top look into the funding of a public building that has choosen to exclude members of the community and the use of the term &quot;family&quot;. Dont know it is any good , but the lady in question did say that the case will be reviewed. Please phone the nation lottery and compain. I feel it is the mis use of public funds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have just phoned the national lottery fund and spoken to some one who was very heplful and have asked them top look into the funding of a public building that has choosen to exclude members of the community and the use of the term &#8220;family&#8221;. Dont know it is any good , but the lady in question did say that the case will be reviewed. Please phone the nation lottery and compain. I feel it is the mis use of public funds.</p>
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		<title>By: matt</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/18/gay-disco-could-offend-christians/#comment-102548</link>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, and all complaints on facebook have been removed. Surprise, surprise!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, and all complaints on facebook have been removed. Surprise, surprise!</p>
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		<title>By: matt</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/18/gay-disco-could-offend-christians/#comment-102547</link>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Heritage Lottery fund will not take complaints about this, and their caseworker who funded this centre is conveniently unavailable. The conspiracy thickens!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Heritage Lottery fund will not take complaints about this, and their caseworker who funded this centre is conveniently unavailable. The conspiracy thickens!</p>
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		<title>By: Iris</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/18/gay-disco-could-offend-christians/#comment-102538</link>
		<dc:creator>Iris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Might I suggest you write directly to Prince Charles, as this place, is partly funded by the duchy of cornwall trust, which is headed up by Prince Charles, as Duchy of Cornwall.&quot;

That&#039;s a good idea, J Matthews. And - although I don&#039;t wish to stir up the politics row, I would point out that ALL the MPs in Cornwall are Lib Dems. 

I don&#039;t think the homophobia in this case is due to political reasons - to me, it seems that the woman herself has issues and needs education about LGBT people. Of course, meeting a few - like if this disco was held - might have helped her realise that we&#039;re not satanic monsters,that we have families of our own and that we&#039;re just like anyone else apart from our sexuality.

I imagine that if she&#039;s worried about &#039;offending Christians&#039;, this Centre must hold very few events. No mixed fibres (tough luck if you want to do your aerobics in a leotard); no prawn sandwiches.... It&#039;d be interesting to see the remit of this Centre. It&#039;s NOT a Christian facility. It was given to the community by Passmore Edwards, the Victorian philanthropist, who also sponsored a lot of libraries and hospitals. It&#039;s a community centre attempting to exclude one section of the community. Disgusting.

What makes me laugh is that it advertises itself as &quot;A Community Hub for the Future&quot;, when it&#039;s obvious that some of the committee who run it have their feet planted firmly in the past. If committe members can&#039;t keep their personal views away from doing their job, they should resign.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Might I suggest you write directly to Prince Charles, as this place, is partly funded by the duchy of cornwall trust, which is headed up by Prince Charles, as Duchy of Cornwall.&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s a good idea, J Matthews. And &#8211; although I don&#8217;t wish to stir up the politics row, I would point out that ALL the MPs in Cornwall are Lib Dems. </p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think the homophobia in this case is due to political reasons &#8211; to me, it seems that the woman herself has issues and needs education about LGBT people. Of course, meeting a few &#8211; like if this disco was held &#8211; might have helped her realise that we&#8217;re not satanic monsters,that we have families of our own and that we&#8217;re just like anyone else apart from our sexuality.</p>
<p>I imagine that if she&#8217;s worried about &#8216;offending Christians&#8217;, this Centre must hold very few events. No mixed fibres (tough luck if you want to do your aerobics in a leotard); no prawn sandwiches&#8230;. It&#8217;d be interesting to see the remit of this Centre. It&#8217;s NOT a Christian facility. It was given to the community by Passmore Edwards, the Victorian philanthropist, who also sponsored a lot of libraries and hospitals. It&#8217;s a community centre attempting to exclude one section of the community. Disgusting.</p>
<p>What makes me laugh is that it advertises itself as &#8220;A Community Hub for the Future&#8221;, when it&#8217;s obvious that some of the committee who run it have their feet planted firmly in the past. If committe members can&#8217;t keep their personal views away from doing their job, they should resign.</p>
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		<title>By: J Mathews</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/18/gay-disco-could-offend-christians/#comment-102535</link>
		<dc:creator>J Mathews</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Prince of Wales (Prince Charles, Duchy of Cornwall), can be contacted via his website, but in matters such as this, a written letter is more likely to be effective.  

His London address is;

Clarence House, London, SW1A 1BA

This is his published address for communications.


Remember, don&#039;t argue with the bigots, they are just fools, argue with the people who provide the money.  It is ALWAYS much more effective.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Prince of Wales (Prince Charles, Duchy of Cornwall), can be contacted via his website, but in matters such as this, a written letter is more likely to be effective.  </p>
<p>His London address is;</p>
<p>Clarence House, London, SW1A 1BA</p>
<p>This is his published address for communications.</p>
<p>Remember, don&#8217;t argue with the bigots, they are just fools, argue with the people who provide the money.  It is ALWAYS much more effective.</p>
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		<title>By: J Mathews</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/18/gay-disco-could-offend-christians/#comment-102533</link>
		<dc:creator>J Mathews</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Might I suggest you write directly to Prince Charles, as this place, is partly funded by the duchy of cornwall trust, which is headed up by Prince Charles, as Duchy of Cornwall.

I do think the person involved in this silly decision is very ill informed, and the place should have ALL of its charitable funding removed if it intends to actively discriminate against members of our community.

Oh, and by the way, who should anyone care about offending &#039;christians&#039;, as they are just a bunch of weak willed people who cannot think for themselves, and base their life around superstition and a magical invisible imaginary man in the sky.  I regard most &#039;christians&#039; as slightly nuts.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Might I suggest you write directly to Prince Charles, as this place, is partly funded by the duchy of cornwall trust, which is headed up by Prince Charles, as Duchy of Cornwall.</p>
<p>I do think the person involved in this silly decision is very ill informed, and the place should have ALL of its charitable funding removed if it intends to actively discriminate against members of our community.</p>
<p>Oh, and by the way, who should anyone care about offending &#8216;christians&#8217;, as they are just a bunch of weak willed people who cannot think for themselves, and base their life around superstition and a magical invisible imaginary man in the sky.  I regard most &#8216;christians&#8217; as slightly nuts.</p>
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		<title>By: SimonQ</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/18/gay-disco-could-offend-christians/#comment-102529</link>
		<dc:creator>SimonQ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>xians are the enemy of lgbt equality and human rights and where they are involved with lgbt organisations and groups they are acting as fifth columnists.  They are not to be trusted.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>xians are the enemy of lgbt equality and human rights and where they are involved with lgbt organisations and groups they are acting as fifth columnists.  They are not to be trusted.</p>
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