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3 June 2013
Baroness Knight: Parliament can’t help blind people see, so can’t help ‘artistic’ gays get married 128 During the equal marriage debate during the second reading of the Marriage (same sex couples) Bill, Tory peer Baroness Jill Knight, who introduced Section 28, compared being gay to being blind, said that gay people were "delightful, very artistic", and said the bill was "built on lies".
9 April 2013
Sussex Police tipped to become the next force to record attacks on subculture groups 2 Sussex Police could become the next force in the country to recognise alternative subculture as a recordable motivation for hate crime.
4 April 2013
UK: Hate crime charity welcomes Greater Manchester Police’s decision to record attacks on subculture groups 8 Stop Hate Crime UK has welcomed Greater Manchester Police’s decision to recognise attacks on members of subcultures, such as goths, punks and emos, as hate crimes.
4 April 2013
Greater Manchester Police to treat crimes against goths and punks as seriously as homophobia 12 Greater Manchester Police is to become the first force in the country to recognise alternative subculture – such as “goths, emos, punks and metallers” as a recordable motivation for hate crime.
8 February 2013
US Columnist: ‘Bowing to calls for equality is like letting a disabled child play with matches’ 38 A columnist for a US conservative news site has written that bowing to pressure from a "militant homosexual lobby" on LGBT rights was like "capitulating to a developmentally disabled child who wants to play with matches".
15 December 2009
Updated: Christian registrar Lillian Ladele loses appeal 254 An Islington registrar who refused to carry out civil partnerships for gay couples has lost her appeal.
14 December 2009
Straight teacher loses homophobic harassment claim 12 A straight Scottish teacher who tried to make a claim for homophobic harassment has lost his case.

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