Census time is almost upon us again. It does seem that every ten years, someone pops up with what they think is a wonderfully subversive idea to put something in the box that asks “religion”. In the past we’ve had “Jedi”, and this time around there is a move (encouraged by the likes of Amy Lame and Ben Summerskill of Stonewall) to encourage gay and lesbian Brits to put “lesbian” for their religion. And of course there is the obligatory Facebook page for it as well (you can see it HERE) which Stonewall supports and promotes.
Quite frankly, people like Summerskill should know better – but of course this is the very same man who refused to support marriage equality for gay and lesbian people then inexplicably changed his mind and said the government was not moving fast enough when in fact moves towards full equality are already underway.
Peter Tatchell has called her a hypocrite
Amy Lame backtracks on putting “lesbian” as religion on the census? Tweet deleted!
6 03 2011Regular readers of my blog will see that on Friday, I wrote about the folly of putting “Lesbian” as your religion on the upcoming UK census. You can read that post HERE.
As I mentioned in my original blog post, this was encouraged by Amy Lame, posting on her Twitter feed on 25 February:
“writing #lesbian as my religion in next month’s #ukcensus bcse no section for sexual orientation…how else r we meant 2 count the queers?”
Since then, Ben Summerskill of Stonewall picked up on it too and commented on it in his March 2011 “ebulletin” for Stonewall.
Imagine my surprise today then when I went to try to find the original tweet on Amy’s feed, only to find she had deleted it!
Did I ruffle some feathers? Did she read my blog post and realise what a silly idea it really was? Or was she just embarrassed by being associated with such an ill-conceived proposal in the first place? I can’t answer for her of course – but in case you missed it, CLICK HERE for the original tweet as published on her feed. Isn’t web caching wonderful?
I’ve also published a screen shot of it (below) in case the cached link stops working too.
UPDATE: 16:00 on 6/3/11 – I now find that Amy has BLOCKED me from following her on Twitter. Come on, Amy – can you not deal with a bit of dissent? Don’t like criticism? Why can you not engage in a reasoned debate? Blocking people doesn’t shut them up, nor does it make the issue go away…
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