Poorly thought out, unneeded “Gay” legislation will cause hilarity and chaos

Oh! we just cant wait to see how many spotty school kids will be dragged off to court in the cause of this latest “PC” waste of money Jack Staw has come up with! Of course the media are missing the point as usual, the question they should be asking is “Why on earth do we need this expensive waste of tax payers money legislation anyway”

People get called names every day I cannot begin to tell you how many times a week I get called “Fatso” if people are “glad to be gay” and have such events as “Pride” surely they are comfortable enough with themselves NOT to need a policeman taking people off for calling them “Nasty Names”?

This is yet another example of people being told how they need to think how “gay” is that!!!

Courtesy The Daily Telegraph

Charity: Pupils risk prosecution for 'gay' slur

By Stephen Adams

Last Updated: 8:17am BST 10/10/2007

Children who call their classmates “gay” risk being arrested for committing a hate crime even if they do not know what the word means, a leading charity warned last night.

Under new proposals issued by Justice Secretary Jack Straw, it will be illegal to use threatening words or behaviour on the grounds of sexual orientation.

Those convicted would face up to seven years in jail.

But the charity Kidscape warned many youngsters who used “gay” as an insult did not even know what it meant.

Claude Knights, the charity’s training manager, said to many children the word now meant only “the opposite of cool”.

Children say things like, 'Your trainers are gay.’ “It is almost in youth culture now. You get kids in primary school using it and they don’t have any idea what the word means

However, there have already been cases where children have been arrested for using the word “gay” in the playground.

In April four policemen were sent to deal with 11-year-old George Rawlinson from Widnes, Cheshire, after he called one of his schoolfriends “gay”. Two were sent to his primary school and two to his home.

Cheshire police only dropped the matter when the boy explained he meant his friend was “stupid” rather than as a homophobic insult. Schools have also been told to clampdown on use of the word as a playground slur amid fears it legitimises homophobia.

Seems UK kids no longer think "Gay" = Cool

So thats bad news for Scout Masters and Vaseline Inc then.