The Conservatives, especially the liberal side of the party, are completely out of touch on the issue of gay "rights". The vast majority of the population do not see homosexuality as an equally valid "lifestyle", and in a recent poll in the Scotsman, around 50% of respondants believed gay "sex" should be illegal.

The Tory party keeps saying they think homosexuality is fine and acceptable and "equal", and then suggesting we keep Section 28 and the ban on gay couples adopting. It looks to me like they're just trying to please everyone, and ending up pleasing nobody and making their ideas and party look foolish. The Tories need to either start zealously backing their stance against gay adoption and in favour of Section 28, a stance that the majority of the voters out there back, even if the out of touch liberal MP's don't, or be honest and make it clear they support homosexuality, so that another more sane party can pick-up their votes.

Why on earth don't the Tories come out of the closet and admit where their ideology stands on the issue. It's not the fact they're seen as "nasty" that puts the voters off, it's the fact they look like ineffectual fools with no particular concrete principles on this issue or in fact many other issues such as Europe (which the majority are also sceptical of).

Another issue which is disturbing is the stealthy and quiet way that MP's steamrollered through the removal of our laws on Gross Indecency. These laws were passed for a reason, that certain homosexual acts were depraved enough to cause widespread offence and therefore should be banned. One case involved a man who was arrested for making depraved videos of "gay" men engaged in sado masochistic acts and homosexual group-sex. The videos involved such disgusting scenes that the police, for a change, decided to act, and arrested him for Gross Indecency. He was charged and found guilty, however he appealed to the European Court of Human Rights. As the result of a case in the European Kangaroo Court of Human Rights, the government was ordered (by this foreign court) to remove our laws on the subject. Soon it will be perfectly legal for a man to go around soliciting gay sex, yet illegal for a heterosexual to do the equivilent. In addition, it will soon be perfectly legal for homosexuals to hang around public toilets and practice homosexuality in public places. The police will have no powers to stop them. How would you like to have to try and use a public toilet with these disgusting perverts in there? If you did anything about it it'd be _you_ in trouble, not them.

MP's are out of touch:

Most parents want Section 28 strengthened, most MP's want it removed.

Most people don't agree with gays being allowed to adopt, most MP's do.

A large section of the population (up to about 50% even) want sodomy made illegal again, you'd be hard pressed to find more than a handful of MP's who would agree with this.

When the liberal lefties argue for a more "representative" House of Commons, they should start by ensuring people's views on this subject are represented for a change, rather than just ignored and ridden roughshod over to please the European Kangaroo Court of Human Rights.