By Voice for Justice UK
On 30th June, while hosting a Pride event at 10 Downing Street, Sir Keir Starmer proudly announced that the British House of Commons is “the gayest Parliament … in the world.” “I’m really proud that we’ve got the gayest Parliament,” he declared. “I don’t think, just of all time, anywhere in the world, I don’t think there’s any Parliament that is gayer than this Parliament. That is fantastic.”
With 76 MPs identifying as LGBT – 62 from the Labour party, 8 from the LibDems, 4 from the Conservatives, and 1 from the Green Party – he is probably right. And certainly it is appropriate that different sections of society deserve proportionate representation in public life. But Sir Keir does not explain why, in a country where only 3.7% of population identifies as gay or bisexual, that minority deserves 11.7% of the votes in Parliament.
Such open preference of one minority over the majority of the population, and proclamation of partisan support for those of its members who advocate an ideology that runs counter to democracy in its determination to suppress what it sees as ‘the opposition’, branding any and all who raise concern as hate-filled bigots, is hardly, one feels, a cause for celebration.
Notwithstanding, Sir Keir went on to boast of the Labour Government’s record on LGBTQ+ rights, specifically mentioning the proposed ban on what he called abusive conversion practices – a ban, let it be remembered, that will potentially criminalise not just deliberately coercive practitioners, but spiritual directors, priests offering prayer support, and parents trying to dissuade their vulnerable young child from irreversible and damaging physical mutilation, that in later life they may well regret.
In fact, taking Sir Keir’s words at face value, the only answer for a gender-questioning child would appear to be unquestioning acceptance, while someone older and ‘unhappy’ with their same sex attraction clearly has a problem accepting who they really are, and should presumably receive therapy to help them acknowledge their true identity! In other words, under the guise of disapproving of conversion, it is reversion to a person’s natural state that is to be condemned, whilst conversion to a different gender is actually to be condoned, and encouraged.
Only the day before this adulatory gay-fest, His Majesty’s government had announced a £21 million three year commitment to advance LGBT+ rights internationally, supporting greater protections for the LGBT+ community, and appointing Lord Collins as the new UK envoy, charged with championing UK efforts to support LGBT+ people globally.
Sad to say, the phrase ‘fiddling while Rome burns’ comes to mind. There are so many threats facing our nation at this time – that indeed threaten our very survival – yet all of these apparently pale into insignificance beside our standing on the world stage as the leading champion of ‘gay rights’. Not only is this misplaced but, to be brutally frank, it is dishonest.
We have removed previous discriminatory practices, so as to treat all members of society equally, but we are now seeing activists using their position to attack other sections of society, so that it’s no longer the LGBTQ+ community that needs protection, but rather their abused opponents – because anyone today who may have a different opinion and dares take issue, even on the grounds of faith, with the new Weltanschauung, find themselves labelled bigoted fascists, who must at all costs be silenced, lest they pollute society with their intolerant and judgmental views.
And if this sounds extreme, then consider the number of people arrested in recent years for having quoted from the Bible, or for having offered to pray with someone who confessed they were finding life difficult. Consider too the vicious campaigns launched against women who have protested the invasion of female-only space by trans activists.
But there’s another side to the State-sponsored prioritisation of ‘gay rights’ that should alarm us all. We live in a world increasingly riven by conflict. Ukraine is fighting a war for its survival, which threatens at any moment to spill over into the rest of Europe; nations in the Middle East, egged on by the US and others, continue to lob missiles at each other, and the whole region could go up in flames at any moment; and all the while China continues its unremitting campaign of cyber-attack and espionage, aimed at further destabilising the West.
In light of all this, military analysts warn that Britain could find itself at war as early as 2030. A war for which we are woefully unprepared, because, after years of chronic underfunding, our armed forces are at an all-time low. We lack personnel, and we lack fire-power, and the truth is that, if we were attacked tomorrow, as things stand, it is unlikely we could survive.
President Trump has made his assessment of our armed forces all too clear, and Telegraph defence editor Tom Cotterill estimates that we need £70 billion to bring our defence capabilities up to speed. So the question is, when surplus funds are limited or supposedly non-existent, does Sir Keir Starmer honestly believe that using his position shortly before leaving office to pour public money into the bottomless pit of LBGTQ+ demands for ever-greater ‘equality’ is money well spent?
The security of all of us is at stake, and this is surely not the time to waste vital resources promoting the imposition of extreme views held by a vocal minority onto the more traditionally minded majority of society. If Sir Keir Starmer’s only legacy is to have overseen the gayest Parliament in the world and made it an offence to offer help to someone unhappy with same sex attraction, while potentially criminalizing parents struggling to protect their child from unnecessary and irreversible mutilation, then we have a problem. Our outgoing Prime Minister’s boasted prioritisation of LGBTQ+ ideology over religious freedom and freedom of expression is yet another nail in the coffin of British democracy. It endangers the survival of us all.
