UK leader fears sperm-donor lesbian queen!

[DonViejo]

An outrageous view on gay marriage from a former conservative leader would be shocking, if it wasn't so funny

BY MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS

We here in the colonies do a pretty great job of finding ludicrous justifications for our homophobia. Exhibit A: Antonin Scalia, our chief judicial defender against sodomy. But every now and then, the motherland shows us how it’s really done. Take, for instance, former Tory chairman Lord Norman Tebbit, who on Tuesday warned Big Issue magazine of the perils of marriage equality — and totally took the cake for crazy.

“When we have a queen who is a lesbian and she marries another lady and then decides she would like to have a child and someone donates sperm and she gives birth to a child, is that child heir to the throne?” he asked. “It’s like one of my colleagues said: We’ve got to make these same-sex marriages available to all. It would lift my worries about (the) inheritance tax because maybe I’d be allowed to marry my son. Why not? Why shouldn’t a mother marry her daughter? Why shouldn’t two elderly sisters living together marry each other?”

The 82-year-old also expressed his assessment of Prime Minister David Cameron’s current government, saying, “Most of them haven’t even worked in a bank! They went straight into politics. The consequences are that they don’t perceive much of what’s going on in the rest of the world. They fucked things up.” Now, I’m not a British MP, but I suspect when the guy who thinks civil rights will lead to royal lesbian sister marriage says you’re a screw-up, that one just rolls right off.

Tebbit is, amazingly enough, not the first esteemed Englishman to make the leap from LGBT equality to incest. Last month, noted cable TV star Jeremy Irons expressed his own fears on the subject. “Could a father not marry his son?” he asked. ” If I wanted to pass on my estate without death duties, I could marry my son and pass on my estate to him.” Anyone who’s read a Jane Austen novel knows that British inheritance laws have historically been complicated. But who knew they’d kick up so much concern regarding same-sex marriage? Say what you will about the US of A and the likes of the National Organization for Marriage – they’ve never once cited the threat of confusion over property rights as an argument against gay unions.

full article
http://www.salon.com/2013/05/21/uk_leader_fears_sperm_donor_lesbian_queen/

[dipsydoodle]

1. That is an extreme inappropriate illustration

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[Ganja Ninja]

2. What if we had a lesbian straw man who became Queen and yadda yadda yadda

[DetlefK]

3. Lesbian straw-man? That's new.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. So, what's stopping you from marrying your daughter right now? But,...

real problems arise when the male heir is presumed to be the primary beneficiary but he has a sex change and becomes a lesbian. But, he had his sperm frozen in case he wanted an heir of his/her own...

Oh, the complexities of life becoming a barrister full-employment program. How about just sitting back and letting people be?