Calls for Theresa May’s Advisor to Resign After Intensely Homophobic Remarks Surface
Several Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs have called for Theresa May’s new housing czar to be sacked after his intensely homophobic remarks have resurfaced in the press, report BuzzFeed News and The Guardian.
Roger Scruton, a conservative philosopher and May’s new housing czar, claimed homophobia doesn’t exist in a 2015 interview with BBC Radio 4’s A Point of View.
“Deviate in the smallest matter from the orthodoxy, and you will be accused of homophobia,” he said.
In a 2007 article for The Telegraphhe wrote: “This ‘right’ for gays is an injustice to children,” and that being gay was “not normal” but instead a “moral inversion that is infecting modern society.”
“Every now and then, we wake up to the fact that, although homosexuality has been normalised, it is not normal,” he continued.
“Our acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle, of same-sex couples, and of the gay scene has not eliminated our sense that these are alternatives to something, and that it is the other thing that is normal.”
On same-sex parents adopting children he wrote: “(adoption) means providing the child with a father and a mother. Anything else would be an injustice to the child and an abuse of his innocence.
“It is no more an act of discrimination to exclude gay couples than it is to exclude incestuous liaisons or communes of promiscuous ‘swingers.’
“Indeed, the implication that adoption is entirely a matter of the ‘rights’ of the prospective parents shows the moral inversion that is infecting modern society.
“We are being asked to overlook all that we know about the fragility of homosexual partnerships, about the psychological needs of children, and about the norms that still prevail in our schools and communities, for the sake of an ideological fantasy.”
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