![]() All of those children are being cheated of a sound start in life-yes, cheated. Too often, our children don’t get the education they need-the education they deserve…Ĭhildren who need to be taught to respect traditional moral values are being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay. This backlash coincided with her successive “family values” and “Victorian values” campaigns, which urged a return to traditional morality and family life. Like human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell writes, “At the Conservative party conference in 1987 Mrs Thatcher mocked people who defended the right to be gay, insinuating that there was no such right.ĭuring her rule, arrests and convictions for consenting same-sex behaviour rocketed, as did queer bashing violence and murders. They may tell you that she was stubborn and, if they really fancy rocking the boat, that “some people saw her as fairly divisive”, but that Thatcher was behind Britain’s first new anti-gay law since 1885 is so utterly embarrassing that chances are you won’t hear about it. Which, you will understand, hardly sits at ease with the relentless campaign to portray her as Holy. In particular, the way her rampant homophobia became integral to British law. In the flurry of hagiographies and tributes to Margaret Thatcher, her long list of heinous political acts seems to have been ENTIRELY forgotten.
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