Tory MEP, Roger Helmer, has been receiving some criticism on blogs today. The Pink News seems to have just discovered that he expressed an opinion on his blog three weeks ago that they disapprove of.

The blog post in question was, I thought, very tolerant of homosexuals. He doesn’t support same-sex ‘marriage’ but why should he? Oh yeah, all politicians are expected to be namby pamby, ‘all-inclusive,’ national sovereignty-hating, anti-religion, green and globalist, ultra-liberal freaks. I remember now. It’s the only way to ensure ‘equality’ apparently.

He is accused of saying that homophobia doesn’t exist, based on this:

…let me point out that the neologism “homophobia” is not so much a word as a political agenda. In psychiatry, a phobia is defined as an irrational fear.  I have yet to meet anyone who has an irrational fear of homosexuals, or of homosexuality.  So to the extent that the word has any meaning at all, it describes something which simply does not exist.  “Homophobia” is merely a propaganda device designed to denigrate and stigmatise those holding conventional opinions, which have been held by most people through most of recorded history.

What he means, of course, is that the word no longer means what it says on the tin. People are sometimes mistreated because of the lifestyles they have chosen, which Mr Helmer should have made clear to avoid criticism. As has been said a million times before, there are laws in place to protect everyone (just not enough coppers allowed away from their desks).

Mr Helmer continues:

It is frightening evidence of the way in which political correctness is threatening our freedom.  It is creating “thought crimes”, where merely to hold a conventional opinion is seen, in itself, to be unacceptable and reprehensible.  I’m sorry, but I don’t buy it.

It is a great shame that more people in the so-called Conservative Party don’t see sense on the issue of sexual immorality that has been dressed up as a ‘rights’ concern. Those commentating on the Pink News article are calling for David Cameron to discipline Mr Helmer, thus confirming his statement about threats to our freedom.

Comment number 14 is by Brian Burton who I have exchanged messages with recently. He claims to be a fellow Christian, yet considers me to be an outsider for holding with traditional Christian teachings. He writes:

Thats the problem holding opinions that have been held since the beginning of recorded history. They are history, and Tory Boys like you should try and live in the 21st. Centuary. He’s a Typical political Idiot.

Not only is his spelling and punctuation dodgy, but his argument is illogical, e.g. murderers and robbers have been arrested since the beginning of recorded history.

Julian Ware-Lane has written a piece for LabourList. He says:

All people should be treated equally and this means that discrimination must be stamped out.

In other words anyone expressing their opinion must be silenced. That really is the danger. It is also happening with other issues. For many years you were branded a ‘racist’ if you objected to mass immigration. Today you can be labelled a ‘climate change denier’ (meant to equate you with a Holocaust denier) or a ‘xenophobic little Englander’ for wanting out of the tyrannical EU. I’m Scottish anyway. I have even been accused of hating women for speaking against abortion.

The masses are being trained to sing like canaries anything our elite masters want them to.

Mr Ware-Lane concludes by writing:

I am also wondering what he means by a “conventional opinion” – it strikes me that it is Mr Helmer who holds the unconventional opinions.

Erm, no he doesn’t. He is just unconventional in that he’s not afraid to say what he thinks and by gum do we need more of that today!