Category Archives: Equality

When equalities collide

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It’s all too easy to mock comment pieces over on the Gruniad’s comments make free – but I’ve never been afraid of going for easy targets and this recent piece just amused me too much. Jane Fae is it seems convinced that “an unstoppable impulse is about to sweep away traditional ideas of gender – and we’ll all benefit”. It’s nice to see that they’ve noticed that the marriage equality bill didn’t bring equality as quite a few people observed at the time, though not from quite such a narrow perspective as Ms Fae is concerned about. However enough of … Continue reading →

Inequality gets royal consent

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Today the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill got royal assent and passed into law. If you want to read lots of happy articles singing this as a great triumph, I suggest you ask a search engine or elsewhere – I’m going to piss in everyones cornflakes. Though before I do that I would like to wish well to all the same sex couples for whom this is actually important. I’ll also ask those that campaigned for equality: 1) Why did you settle for inequality? 2) Why do you want the state involved at all? Now on with the pissing. A … Continue reading →

It’s still not equality

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Catching up on the news that’s happened whilst I’ve been traveling I note that the marriage “equality” bill has got through the lords. I put equality in quotes as it still doesn’t provide equality as I muttered about earlier. Apparently the evil wrecking amendment would extend civil partnerships to heterosexual couples, yep in a bill for equality asking that it actually deliver equality should be rejected because it would delay things and cost too much, cost not being a concern that I’ve noticed for the bill as it stood. If equality is the right thing to do then surely it’s … Continue reading →