Musical Homophobia - or The Homophobia Histories

[amateur51]

Despite my views on SSM, human rights dictats, border control and the velfarundependencziestaaten, I am a very modern man capable of cosmopolitan and trendy imaginationing.

Not in Welsh you're not - mind you, neither am I (it was only an 'O' level)

[Resurrection Man]

No 'we' don't scotty - we know of people who were sacked for failing to provide a public service to lesbians and gay men by reason of their prejudice, quite a different matter.

The use of the word 'prejudice' in this instance is very pejorative but not exactly unexpected coming from you. Many of these people had deeply held religious beliefs.

[Resurrection Man]

AH's prose is methodically and meticulously punctuated, stonme roller.

Some might argue that there are too few full-stops but the punctuation is most certainly there.

Ah, my stalker has returned.

[Bryn]

Ah, my stalker has returned.

That is indeed what your user name implies.

[amateur51]

Ah, my stalker has returned.

Ah the roller logic - reply to his messages and you're a stalker.

[amateur51]

The use of the word 'prejudice' in this instance is very pejorative but not exactly unexpected coming from you. Many of these people had deeply held religious beliefs.

Religion is a human artefact which cannot be allowed to be above the secular law. Someone who chooses to withhold their professional services to someone whom they have not met but because of their sexuality is prejudiced, without question.

[Tony Halstead]

Ah the roller logic - reply to his messages and you're a stalker.

!

<rolling eyes>
<larff>

[Resurrection Man]

Ah the roller logic - reply to his messages and you're a stalker.

Well, my little TweetMeister, it depends on whether you actually reply ...most of the time it is just a snipe.

[amateur51]

Well, my little TweetMeister, it depends on whether you actually reply ...most of the time it is just a snipe.

Wasn't it said of Tristram Garel-Jones, a former Tory MP of the Thatcher era, that he was so wet you could shoot snipe off him?

[Resurrection Man]

Religion is a human artefact which cannot be allowed to be above the secular law. Someone who chooses to withhold their professional services to someone whom they have not met but because of their sexuality is prejudiced, without question.

You are mixing up two things. I agree with your first sentence. But if I were to withhold my professional services simply because I don't like gays then that is prejudice. Wishing to withhold my professional services because of deeply held religious beliefs is not. The law would prevent me (see first sentence) but it is not prejudice.

It IS prejudice to suggest that having religious beliefs that are against homosexuals makes one prejudiced.

[Resurrection Man]

Wasn't it said of Tristram Garel-Jones, a former Tory MP of the Thatcher era, that he was so wet you could shoot snipe off him?

No idea, sunshine, you're the one fixated on the Tories.

[Mr Pee]

To the heart of the matter Mary, as so often

No. To the heart of the matter as you perceive it, that's all.

Music is only about notes and sounds. At the most basic level, that is all there is. We then put onto that our own interpretations, emotional responses, etc., etc.,. If some listeners choose to read all about the composer's life, cultural background, sexual peccadilloes, or breakfast preferences, then that's up to them. But one can get an equally rewarding experience by just....listening to the notes, and the sounds they make.

[Mr Pee]

No idea, sunshine, you're the one fixated on the Tories.

I think to be strictly accurate, RM, Amateur has four fixations:- The Tories, Murdoch, Homosexualist rights, and whatever happens to be in that day's Guardian newspaper.

[MrGongGong]

Music is only about notes and sounds. .

No it's not
and i'm not sure that you know the difference between notes and sounds

[jean]

...Homosexualist...

I thought it was only Sydney Grew who ever used that word!