Filed under: News News - I'm often grateful for gay rights activist PeterTatchell. He certainly has a voice that is heard, and worth listening to...and then you get this- Speaking to The Stage Tatchell criticised UK broadcasters for presenting audiences "camp, ... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
I was sent an article today written by PeterTatchell and Fran Singh of the Inquirer which detailed another 'politically correct' disaster. It seems that with the hosting of Abu Usamah, the extremist Islamist preacher by University College London to address the Islamic Society of the University, this educational institution has gone a step too far. It seems that City University had beaten...
Over at CiF, PeterTatchell is giving his backing to a heterosexual couple who want to have a civil partnership, not a marriage. OutRage! has long held the position that separate can never be equal and has also argued that any two people in a relationship of mutual care and commitment sharing a home ought to [...]
... Rights in Iraq’s Issam Shukri; Iran Solidarity’s Bahar Milani; Human Rights Campaigner PeterTatchell; National Secular Society’s Keith Porteous Wood and the rally’s Master of Ceremonies, Iranian Secular Society’s Fariborz Pooya. The rally heard from people with direct experiences of Sharia law, including Iranian-born activist Sohaila Sharifi and Somali-born...
International Humanist and Ethical Union 24 November 2009 Based on a report from PeterTatchell, Video Cannel Sighteffect Muslims, ex-Muslims and non-Muslims joined forces in London to protest against Sharia and against all religious laws and courts. The rally took place in Hyde Park, Saturday 21 November 2009. Speakers included: Roy Brown, of the International Humanist and Ethical Union...
... who have been granted exemptions from anti-discrimination law," said human rights campaigner PeterTatchell. "It is a big embarrassment for the British government, which has consistently sought to appease religious homophobes by granting them opt-outs from key equality laws. The European commission has ruled these opt-outs are excessive." ...Keith Porteous-Wood, executive...
Received this by e-mail and thought I'd put it up for comment . Straight couple defy civil partnership ban Exclusion of heterosexual couples challenged Bid for civil partnership equality backed by PeterTatchell A London straight couple, Tom Freeman and Katherine Doyle, plan to challenge the ban on opposite-sex civil partnerships by filing an application at Islington Registry Office in...
... civil partnerships. Freeman and Doyle, who are supported by the human rights campaigner PeterTatchell, plan to seek legal advice. "If necessary, we are ready to take our appeal all the way to the European court of human rights," Freeman, a civil servant, said. In a joint statement, the pair said they were "saddened and disappointed" that they had been been refused...
Let us support the courageous Muslims who, often at great personal risk, are campaigning against religious extremism Comments (564) Peter Tatchell guardian.co.uk, Thursday 19 November 2009 21.00 GMT Article history This Saturday's London rally against sharia law and all religious tyrannies should be huge. Millions of people are suffering at the hands of clerical regimes, especially our Muslim
... advice and take it to the European Court of Human Rights if necessary." Noted gay activist PeterTatchell supports the couple, saying, "Two wrongs do not make a right and we want equality in law for everyone." Subscribe to Joe.My.God.
... and all other couples should also have a choice, irrespective of their sexuality.” Here comes PeterTatchell – “This segregation based on sexuality is just as reprehensible as a legal apartheid based on race”: “The ban on heterosexual civil partnerships is heterophobic. It is discriminatory and offensive.” You offended? Oh, Brave new World. An Islington Council spokesman says: “The...
“The Vice Chancellor of City University London, Julius Weinberg, should resign. He is refusing to take any action after the Islamic Society hosted a fundamentalist preacher, Abu Usamah, who advocates the murder of gay people and of Muslims who give up their faith,” said human rights campaigner PeterTatchell. Abu Usamah was recorded on Channel Four’s [...]
... the murder of gay people and of Muslims who give up their faith,” said human rights campaigner PeterTatchell. Abu Usamah was recorded on Channel Four’s television documentary, Undercover Mosque, as saying: “Do you practice homosexuality with men? Take that homosexual man and throw him off the mountain.” On Muslims who leave the faith he said: “If the Imam wants to crucify him, he...