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Title: Homophobia in DT letters
Post by: Slacker on June 20, 2012, 09:53:12 PM: Started off as a comment about Elton John concert an ended up as a homophobic rant by a bible basher. Son'y think it's on the DT website yet but I'm sure it will provoke replies.
Title: Re: Homophobia in DT letters
Post by: Pete on June 21, 2012, 08:24:20 AM: Link?
Title: Re: Homophobia in DT letters
Post by: Slacker on June 21, 2012, 10:31:29 AM: Only seen in paper, as my post should have read but something appears to have gone wrong
Title: Re: Homophobia in DT letters
Post by: Old Cruser on June 21, 2012, 06:10:58 PM: I couldn't find it in the paper :(
Title: Re: Homophobia in DT letters
Post by: Fly on June 21, 2012, 06:19:18 PM: Quote
Son'y think it's on the DT website
Quote
Only seen in paper

q? You been drinking LOL ;)
Title: Re: Homophobia in DT letters
Post by: Slacker on June 21, 2012, 07:18:23 PM: My computer has broken and I haven't got spellcheck on here
Title: Re: Homophobia in DT letters
Post by: Fly on June 21, 2012, 07:26:00 PM: I wasn't pulling your spelling down Andy ;)
Just the fact nobody can find the story you posted about lol
Title: Re: Homophobia in DT letters
Post by: Stuart on June 21, 2012, 08:31:19 PM: The letter's on page 8. Complains that people paid to watch a guy sing songs he wrote 40 years ago. And Charles Wesley wrote "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" just the other week, I suppose. Not overt homophobia, as I read it, but plenty of religious tosh and warnings as the the hellfire and damnation that awaits anyone who might be tempted to go round shagging a member of the same sex.
Title: Re: Homophobia in DT letters
Post by: Fly on June 21, 2012, 08:49:52 PM: How do I find page 8 from here ?
http://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/community/letters (http://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/community/letters)
Title: Re: Homophobia in DT letters
Post by: Stuart on June 21, 2012, 09:27:00 PM: First, they have to publish pages one to seven.
Title: Re: Homophobia in DT letters
Post by: Fly on June 21, 2012, 09:35:43 PM: The battery's in the tail section, and the tail section's missing lol 8)
Title: Re: Homophobia in DT letters
Post by: Slacker on June 21, 2012, 10:14:07 PM: Spend 70p you tight **** ;D
Title: Re: Homophobia in DT letters
Post by: Pete on June 21, 2012, 10:45:01 PM: I bought it, I read it, he's a nutter.

I'm surprised they ran it.

Not worth getting your knickers in a twist about, if you ask me.
Title: Re: Homophobia in DT letters
Post by: Slacker on June 21, 2012, 10:48:08 PM: I think the DT is getting more dependent on interaction rather than reporters whether it be the letters page, Facebook or Twitter
Title: Re: Homophobia in DT letters
Post by: Pete on June 21, 2012, 10:55:34 PM: Yer probably right.
Title: Re: Homophobia in DT letters
Post by: Old Cruser on June 22, 2012, 09:51:10 AM: I found it last night.
The point with this that
A - the churches failed to 'move with the times for years' whilst the majority of the population moved forward with our changing ways. Had the church been more 'on the ball' with this instead of wanting to keep things as they have been for the last thousands of years people would probably carried on attending.
B The passage in the Bible regarding the 'gay community' is disputed within the religions as to how it should read and the meaning behind it, this is why some will be ok with the gay marriages and others not.
The person who wrote the article is clearly homophobic and as stated on here a 'bible basher'
I my self firmly believe that there are many fornicated people involved in the churches of religions and don't practise indoors what they preach to the rest of us.
Title: Re: Homophobia in DT letters
Post by: Pete on June 22, 2012, 10:18:47 AM: I always wondered whatever happened to Arthur Brown.
Title: Re: Homophobia in DT letters
Post by: Old Cruser on June 22, 2012, 04:41:09 PM: Maybe burned
Title: Re: Homophobia in DT letters
Post by: Fly on June 22, 2012, 05:35:15 PM: I must have looked through the DT 4 times, and couldn't see the article.
Mentioned it to our_lass this morning, she picked up the DT and turned straight to the page :-[

So, after reading said article, IMHO, the man's a barking idiot :))
Title: Re: Homophobia in DT letters
Post by: k4blades on June 27, 2012, 02:38:45 PM: Quote from: Slacker on June 21, 2012, 10:14:07 PM
Spend 70p you tight **** ;D

:)) :)) :))