Very few people here actually see further that the single issue of equality (which ironically is all but out of the hands of the British government anyway).

Like your partner I was recently the subject of an anti-terroist search, which at the time i believed was wrong and upon investigation I now find was illegal.

Civil rights have gone down the toilet with the State closing in on us all the time. The anti-terroist police are now performing a number of the functions carried out by the ‘secret’ police in East Germany. New Labour has also introduced an Enabling Act, which fundamentally undermines the very principles of the democracy this country has enjoyed for centuries.

It is frightening to watch the spread of State control over so many things and even more frightening that so few people are noticing or caring.

Sticking your head in the sand is one way of coping with your parties heterosexism and homophobia . . .

With regards Mr Ian Duncan Smiths views with about the LGBT community – when he uses terms like “Downgrade” . . . let me put this succintly, we are not a community that will accept a second class status in relation to heterosexuals.

My partner and I fear for the future of our country, which is falling apart before our eyes. We have gained equality, but lost some of our basic human rights along the way. Things are so bad now, especially now that the country is effectively broke, that we’ve decided to move to France for a better future.

I find it disappointing that, on here, there is so much cant and mud-slinging. IDS’s recommendation that the right of same-sex couples to adopt be “downgraded” does not matter much to us and I suspect most other gay people are not really interested in the issue. Furthermore, nobody can take it for granted that all gay and lesbian people are in favour of gay adoption. I certainly am not in favour, neither is my partner. And I just think that there are more important issues to deal with right now.

An elected government doesn’t just govern for minorities like us – they govern for everyone. We are sensible enough to look outwards at the real issues that affect us all. David Cameron, when referring to the surveillance state that had been created by New Labour, said that he would sweep the whole rotten edifice away and for that, and that alone, he gets my vote.

We are voting for parties, not individuals. The vast majority of the Conservative party has a terrible record of voting for LGBT rights.

I don’t know what his personal views are on such matters and therefore I’m not going to comment.

Oh, he’s made it abundantly clear what his views on the matter are a couple of times. The links at the bottom of the page will help you find out, as will Google.

No doubt unless you were elected BECAUSE you were gay, rather than elected AND gay, they’ll still be in denial.

They are still of the view that the world is flat also ….

David Cameron rightly said that Civil Partnerships were one of the good things that Labour had done. He also said that marriage and civil partnerships should be recognised in the tax system. As many people are aware, he’s already said the Party was wrong over Section 28 and he has apologised for it. At an event I attended in London, he also admitted that his own voting record hadn’t been the best and that he too had been wrong. You can’t say fairer than that. I’ve never heard Gordon Brown speak on any LGBT matter let alone say anything open, honest or fair about such things.

I’ve met Iain Duncan-Smith on a number of occasions. He is one of the most genuine and sincere people you could ever wish to meet. I don’t know what his personal views are on such matters and therefore I’m not going to comment. However, I should stress that the Centre for Social Justice is a separate body and is not part of the Conservative Party – like many think tanks. Therefore, it’s wrong to imply that such views would become Party policy.

Stephen Ellis
Deputy Chairman, LGBTory

Of course it’s not. We all know that.

But how appropriate is it to have a member of a specifically homophobic organisation, try to ‘mend broken society’?

IDS is a homophobe.

He should not be allowed anywhere near a post where he can try to inflict his homophobia on all of society.

Why not?

I tend to agree with Dave, the Tories have to overturn a hundred seat majority first. LGBT issues will not be upper most in peoples’ minds; many of the electorate will have tax credits to consider when casting their vote.

Really, any Cameron lead government will only serve a Countryside Alliance agenda and reversal of fox hunting ban. They will also cause trouble for the divolved Parliament and a reduction of Scottish MPs at Westminster. I don’t think there would be any room in parliamentary time for LGBT issues of any kind.

All the best.

L

. . . However that cannot be said for those he surrounds himself with . . . Ian Duncan Smith . . . Philippa Stoud to mention but a few.

Various think tanks (left and right) have views on all sorts of things, and it makes poke all difference to party policy, so if you’ve got nothing better to do than cite what you heard when you were drunk and standing in the queue at the petrol station buying fish fingers and micro chips as fact, you really need to get out more (and preferably not just to the petrol station)

Rose:

“If the tories get in, EVERYONE except the upper middle classes will suffer. LGBT people seem the only ones who’ve realised it yet!!!! ”

Labour have lost the BME vote. They have lost the council estate vote and they have lost the gay vote. Do you NEVER read, listen to, or watch the news?