“I often feel the natural place for a gay person is on the right. Conservatives should be all about an individual’s right to his or her own life, his or her own business, without the interference of hypersensitive, offended others. And it follows that true conservatives ought to support gay marriage, particularly those partial to family values. It’s difficult to argue that society doesn’t benefit from stable relationships. And what better way to encourage stable relationships than to support gay marriage? It is hard not to snicker at the idea that same-sex marriages would threaten straight ones. We straight people in Canada and the US have done a good job of bringing the divorce rate close to 50 percent all on our own.” – Rondi Adamson, Christian Science Monitor.
FIGHTING THE BBC: The beginnings of a protest movement against the BBC seems to be in the air. This week, the BBC released their own annual report. It was full of the usual self-serving pabulum and ignored the massive criticism that the BBC has endured for its pro-Saddam coverage of the Iraq war. It was widely savaged, and the critics included an influential Labor MP:
Committee chairman Gerald Kaufman MP accused the governors of being “utterly gushing” in their assessment of the last year. He questioned how long the BBC could go on arguing that it should be funded by “a tax” as it “goes on shrinking, as it is shrinking and will shrink”. The corporation has also been under political scrutiny following its public row with 10 Downing Street over a BBC story that claimed the prime minister’s office “sexed up” a dossier on Iraqi weapons. Mr Kaufman said the BBC should sack Andrew Gilligan, the reporter who prompted the Iraq weapons row. He added that Mr Gilligan and other journalists should be sacked for writing what he called “contentious” articles for the newspapers.
Meanwhile another Brit has gone to court to resist having to pay the BBC tax.
The Dish 