Pat Robertson's Network Cheers Thatcher

Yesterday Pat Robertson's CBN network quoted Margaret Thatcher's support for Britain's infamous Section 28 and applauded her campaign to have Christianity taught in public schools.

Quote Of The Day - Deacon Nick Donnelly

"Faithful Catholics and Christians of the United Kingdom owe Margaret Thatcher our lasting gratitude for attempting to protect our children from homosexual propaganda being taught in schools and for stopping local councils promoting homosexuality through Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 until its tragic repeal in 2003.  Margaret Thatcher had the foresight to see that homosexual activists would seek to indoctrinate children at school with the false idea of the ‘acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship’ and the political and moral courage to legally prohibit the promotion of homosexuality by teaching. The tragedy is that the Conservative party is now led by David and Samantha Cameron who are hell bent on foisting on the country the ultimate homosexual pretense of a family relationship, same-sex marriage. God bless you Margaret Thatcher for trying to protect our children from homosexual ideology being taught in the class room."- Deacon Nick Donnelly of the Diocese of Lancaster, writing for Defend The Pope.

HomoQuotable - Sir Ian McKellan

"Lest we forget, this nasty, brutish and short measure of the third Thatcher administration, was designed to slander homosexuality, by prohibiting state schools from discussing positively gay people and our 'pretended family relations.' Opposition to Section 28 galvanised a new generation of activists who joined with long-time campaigners for equality. Stonewall UK was founded to repeal Section 28 and pluck older rotten anti-gay legislation from the constitutional tree. This has taken two decades to achieve.

"Pathetically, in her dotage, Baroness Thatcher was led by her supporters into the House of Lords to vote against Section 28's repeal: her final contribution to UK politics. She dies too early to oppose Parliament's inevitable acceptance of same–gender marriage. Thatcher misjudged the future when, according to her deputy chief whip, she 'threw a piece of red meat (Section 28) to her right-wing wolves.' Some of these beasts survive her, albeit de-fanged. When, to take a recent example, a disgraced cardinal delivers anti-gay diatribes, the spirit of social Thatcherism is revealed as barren, hypocritical and now pointless." - Sir Ian McKellan, writing on his website.

UK: Ding Dong Hits #2

Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead finished the week at #2 on the British pop singles chart after an internet campaign to download the song as a final protest of Margaret Thatcher's support for Section 28.  As expected, the BBC only played a five-second snippet of the track during this weekend's countdown show.

SCOTLAND: Top Anti-Gay Activist Confesses To Child Porn Charges

The Scottish school board administrator who was a leader in the campaign against repealing the UK's anti-gay Section 28 law has confessed to possessing and distributing child pornography. Enacted in 1986 during the Thatcher administration, Section 28 made it illegal to "promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship."

Alan Smith - then Scottish School Board Association president - was a key figure in bus tycoon Brian Souter's failed fight to keep Section 28. The SSBA were bankrolled by Souter during the campaign that ended in 2000 when Donald Dewar repealed a bar on discussing gay issues in classrooms. Shamed dad-of-two Smith, 53, now faces jail a fter after being snared with 4000 child porn photos on his computer. He admitted distributing indecent photos of kids in 2006 and having the material at his home last year. While sending the sick images to other paedophiles, Smith was working in primary and secondary schools. He mixed with pupils as a director of the Learning Game, an education firm in Milngavie, Glasgow. Norma Corlette, his former boss at the firm who went into liquidation two years ago, said: "Crucially, no member of our staff was allowed to work with children without a member of the school staff accompanying them at all times. This policy was rigorously enforced across the organisation." Smith was caught when Metropolitan Police officers monitoring suspicious web activity tipped offcops in Scotland. His Paisley home was raided last June and on his laptop there were more than 4000 vile images. Police also found Smith had communicated with another chatroom user known as Babylover1.

Famed UK gay activist Peter Tatchell nails it: "Alan Smith's conviction for child pornography confirms the theory that people who oppose gay equality are often hypocrites. They pose in public as icons of moral virtue while privately leading immoral, debauched lives. Their attacks on gay people are diversions to disguise their own sexual crimes."

UK: Conservative Party Apologizes For Anti-Gay Section 28 Legislation

In 1988 the UK enacted Section 28, a law which ordered that schools "shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality" or "promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship." The law was not repealed until 2003.

Yesterday, at a gay Pride event in London, the Conservative Party apologized for having sponsored the legislation.

David Cameron has issued an extraordinary apology on behalf of the Conservative Party for legislation banning the promotion of homosexuality in schools. He said the party had 'got it wrong' when it introduced Section 28 in the late 1980s. It is one of a series of apologies Mr Cameron has made for his party's actions in government. [snip]

Section 28 was introduced by Margaret Thatcher's government in response to evidence of Left-wing councils promoting gay relationships in schools. It prevented councils and schools from intentionally promoting homosexuality, but became a focal point for anger for gay rights campaigners. Mr Cameron insisted he was making his apology because the legislation had been ' offensive to gay people'. 'I'm sorry for Section 28. We got it wrong. It was an emotional issue. We have got to move on and we have moved on,' he said.

He insisted that under his leadership the party was embracing gay rights and predicted it would produce Britain's first gay Prime Minister. 'Yes, we may have sometimes been slow and yes, we may have made mistakes, including Section 28, but the change has happened,' he said.

Britain's first openly gay Prime Minister, a Tory?