Via Storyful:
Jim Wells, Northern Ireland’s health minister, claimed that children of same sex parents were more likely to be neglected and abused. The Democratic Unionist Party politician made the comments at a hustings event in Downpatrick on Thursday, April 23.
Thanks Donie O’Sullivan
(DUP)
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So wrong. Glad that the crowd called him out on it at least.
What an idiot. I’d love to see his supporting evidence. Given he changed his term from evidence on ‘homosexual marriage’ to that on ‘non stable marriage’ would imply that the data he may (or may not have) is not in relation to homosexual marriage, but actually in relation to non-stable marriage. Which, in Ireland, have zero evidence of being linked.
How do these people get into government?!
By riding people – ironically
you know – that way
Idiot in saying idiotic things shocker.
He’s a minister for health…some relevance perhaps? As this is the North, where the normal rules don’t apply, he’ll get away with it.
Bigoted Northern Irish politician talks load of bigoted ****. Well I never – what’s the world coming too?
Take out the Northern Irish and put in Unionist for extra accuracy. He don’t speak for all of us.
Implying their Republican counterparts aren’t bigots, in one form or another.
Not everyone in the northeast is a foamy mouthed Britisher or Provo. Some are nice, normal foamy mouthed gaeilgeoirs. :-)
republicans aren’t bigoted. they painted the free derry wall pink to support gay rights long ago.
@Ultacht – No I’m sure they aren’t
Who you been talking to Odis?
Ultach will fight agus beidh an ceart aige.
Or at least blether on til the other man/wan gets fed up and switches off.
Let me be the first to jump in with “it’s his opinion so he has the right to express it and even though it’s a lie designed to hurt, humiliate and incite prejudice, it’s an opinion of exactly the same value as any other so you can’t disagree with it”.
That feels a bit weird.
An opinion based on…..??
*please all tick boxes which apply;
Evidence [ ]
Fear [ ]
Discrimination / Bigotry [ ]
Ignorance [ ]
Preachin’ [ ]
#justsayin [ ]
Oh I’ve no idea, all of the above, I imagine. I’m really only parroting the opinions I’ve been reading about No posters all morning where the mood seems to be that all opinions are equal, even if they’re lies and are of exactly the same merit as opinions based on reality.
+1
Well IMO, I think that when you’re the minister for health and you’re referring to your opinions as facts it’s a little different.
You are either Helen or the Anti ABM. Get back to the Pits of Hell that spawned you.
He didn’t state an opinion. He is trying to claim that there is evidence indicating that same sex marriage results in child abuse. There is no such evidence in Ireland. So unlike the posters there is no subjectivity, or opinion, to concern yourself with. Easy. We can all agree on this one. He is factually wrong.
Ahhh.
There is no such evidence ANYWHERE in the world, not just in Ireland.
I agree. But, to remain in the factual manner (which is his approach, so let’s smash it), there is no possibility of this in Ireland, as he is focusing on homosexual marriage and adoption. So not only is the ‘fact’ wrong, there is no method for his evidence to have been gathered.
The posters that state that the referendum will effect surrogacy and adoption are just as much of a lie as this fellas opinion
Yes, I agree 100%, but their removal is illegal, and also not in the interest of the yes campaig.
He did not express an opinion.
He made a false statement as a fact. And doing so as a Minister for Health is disturbingly wrong on many, many levels.
>statement of (non) fact
>disturbingly wrong on many levels
Goes with the patch really. You’ll probably find its what he has to do to get votes from his constituency. Of course South of the Border, our politicians would never do anything like that.
go and wash yourself anois le do thoil
Not a pip on BBC “national” news. If a minister in Scotland or Wales came out with this it would be all over the shop. But then, I suppose this isn’t really news. Kerry on Peddys, es long as you aaan’t blewing ap Landan.
Correction, it’s just popped up way down at the bottom of the website, right under “Johnson free to play for Sunderland”. Someone in Landan is reading Broadsheet by the looks.
Shh, you’ll get me sacked.
In fairness, there would be little time for reporting anything else if they were to report on the mad stuff that the DUP come out with.
Whatever else you can say about the politicians in the rest of Ireland, they at least believe in evolution & climate change!
Heresy!
You’d think they’d be putting the DUP under more scrutiny considering they might very well be in government in Westminster in a few weeks…
Been a bit of that going on on, wait for it, BBC Radio Ulster. So you might have missed it. As might people in Blighty.
They gave up on reporting on Unionists after peak Paisley. It was much to alien for the average Brit to conceive.
Well
You have to remember
Iris says
You can catch the gay
Which is how her ex son in law got it
Tis catching
Up thur
His condition is electoratis dumb@$$is
If you are expecting reason and logic from a member of the DUP then you will be waiting for a long time.
Reason and Logic – That’s all feckin heathen Greek stuff.
Reason, logic and gayness!
Enough already
Not surprised you wouldn’t get the Ted reference.
No I didn’t. But then I stopped watching it years ago. I think the fact that its constantly repeated detracts from its original brilliance. I prefer to remember it as it was – if that makes sense.
Very silly comment on Twitter that made me giggle nonetheless:
“His teeth have been abused!!”
Not at all. Have you not heard of English Teeth?
Finding Nemo tie.
Class.
Ha!
Wonder does he have the other characters.
Since he know’s….perhaps he’d enlighten us on the going’s on at Kincora
all those years ago, it hasn’t gone away you know.
what are these people so afraid of that such things, which are contrary to evidence, are said? seriously, how can we help them get over this fear? let’s stop harassing them and shouting at them, they’re afraid; why? I refuse to believe such otherwise nice people are just hate mongers, no person is that two dimensional.