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You brainless utter twat

There is a school of thought that says that you should ignore the stupid. I can understand that. Why even give them the oxygen of publicity when you're criticising them - why not just not mention them at all? It's a fair idea, but unfortunately when people make public proclamations of stupidity, wilful ignorance and downright brainlessness, and when these people, far from being the man on the Clapham Omnibus are senior figures, they deserve both barrels.

Say hello to John Devine, Bishop of Motherwell. Not some vicar of a tiny parish, but a bishop. Remember that when you hear him say

"The homosexual lobby has been extremely effective in aligning itself with minority groups.
"It is ever present at the service each year for the Holocaust memorial - as if to create for themselves the image of a group of people under persecution."

And what were the pink triangles on the concentration camp uniforms for then, John? Any ideas? No? No, you wouldn't know, would you. You ignorant twit. Maybe the reason they're there at the Holocaust Memorial is that gay people, like Jews, were targeted by the Nazis. But no, it's all some big conspiracy isn't it, the big bad gay lobby trying to infect our children.

"I want to ask you if you are able to see the giant conspiracy that's taking place before our eyes, even if we didn't see it at the time.

No, there isn't a conspiracy at all. Just freedom of thought and expression. Do you have a problem with that?

"In this New Year's Honours List, I saw actor Ian McKellen being honoured for his work on behalf of homosexuals.
"A century ago, Oscar Wilde was locked up and put in jail."

For 'homosexual acts not amounting to buggery'. Is the bish really saying a return to those times is a good idea? Is he really advocating prison for gayness, not even for - gasp - gay sex? And besides, McKellen was knighted for services to theatrical arts as well as campaigning for equality - not 'working on behalf of homosexuals'.

He said: "Like Mel Gibson, who said, 'I'm going to pick a fight', so am I."

Mel Gibson said that? Don't you mean William Wallace, played by Mel Gibson in the film Braveheart? And what kind of role model for good religious folk is Gibson, who drunkenly insulted Jews when he was arrested? He too claimed there was a conspiracy, but at least he had the excuse of being as pissed as a fart at the time. Devine doesn't have that to explain away his disgraceful comments.

It's tough on Christians, and Catholics in particular I should hope, that berks like Devine should claim to speak for them. Surely there is more to the Christian faith than attacking minorities and claiming some sort of gay mafia is trying to pervert the world. Surely we've come further than that? Surely to be a bishop you have to actually have some brains? Don't you?

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