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		<title>By: Eddy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eddy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No, RobN, it is not that I have dared to stick my head above the parapet, as you put it, it is, instead, that I, unlike you, have a wonderful and integrated life and do not always have time to visit this site.  

Unlike you I am not a homophobic nerd or self-hating gay, whichever one of those you are, sitting forever at his monitor spitting hatred at the progress of gay liberation as documented in Pink News.</description>
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<p>Unlike you I am not a homophobic nerd or self-hating gay, whichever one of those you are, sitting forever at his monitor spitting hatred at the progress of gay liberation as documented in Pink News.
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		<title>By: RobN</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>J Mathews: &quot;You post homophobic bilge on this site all the time&quot;
Your Holiness, please let me elaborate.
Like I said, you see anyone that criticises the &quot;party line&quot; of left-wing, PC poofs as homophobic. I have no problem with gay sex or sexuality. I just don&#039;t like the attitude of most of the people that practice it. 

Eddy: I see you&#039;ve decided to stick your head above the parapet after many weeks absence just to do your usual wave of mudslinging and insults; Are you finished yet? Please f--k off again for a few more months. Your input is pointless anyway.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>J Mathews: "You post homophobic bilge on this site all the time"<br />
Your Holiness, please let me elaborate.<br />
Like I said, you see anyone that criticises the "party line" of left-wing, PC poofs as homophobic. I have no problem with gay sex or sexuality. I just don't like the attitude of most of the people that practice it. </p>
<p>Eddy: I see you've decided to stick your head above the parapet after many weeks absence just to do your usual wave of mudslinging and insults; Are you finished yet? Please f&#8211;k off again for a few more months. Your input is pointless anyway.
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		<title>By: Eddy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I would have decked him. Simple technique that works every time&quot; wrote RobN.

We&#039;ve quite a picture of this individual now after months and months of bilge.  Now we know he&#039;s a thug.  &quot;Decking&quot; people is thug-talk.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>"I would have decked him. Simple technique that works every time" wrote RobN.</p>
<p>We've quite a picture of this individual now after months and months of bilge.  Now we know he's a thug.  "Decking" people is thug-talk.
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		<title>By: J Mathews</title>
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		<dc:creator>J Mathews</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Quote from the ever caring RobN;

&quot; I have serious problems with arsewipes like you. You have &quot;victim&quot; tattooed on your forehead, a chip on your shoulder, and your brains in your bollocks. Anyone that criticises you is automatically homophobic. Maybe I just can&#039;t stand twats. Is there such a thing as &quot;twatophobic&quot;? Or is that equally socially unacceptable?&quot;


Oh, dear RobN, it strikes me you just have problems. period.  

Keep shouting, and we all see you for the complete fraud you are.  You post homophobic bilge on this site all the time, thinking you are so clever, that nobody can see through what you do, pretending it is just political correctness you don&#039;t like.  

If you are gay, then I am his holiness the pope.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Quote from the ever caring RobN;</p>
<p>" I have serious problems with arsewipes like you. You have "victim" tattooed on your forehead, a chip on your shoulder, and your brains in your bollocks. Anyone that criticises you is automatically homophobic. Maybe I just can't stand twats. Is there such a thing as "twatophobic"? Or is that equally socially unacceptable?"</p>
<p>Oh, dear RobN, it strikes me you just have problems. period.  </p>
<p>Keep shouting, and we all see you for the complete fraud you are.  You post homophobic bilge on this site all the time, thinking you are so clever, that nobody can see through what you do, pretending it is just political correctness you don't like.  </p>
<p>If you are gay, then I am his holiness the pope.
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		<title>By: Brian Burton</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brian Burton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>RobN,

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<p>Don't SCUMBAGS like you talk Big? That's because you have a very small mind!
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		<title>By: RobN</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thomas: &quot;It doesn&#039;t help the greater good of our world or equality of opportunity exchanging insults.&quot;

That is, assuming I give a flying toss about either.
If the man gives me abuse, I give him stick in return. If he said that to me face to face, I would have decked him. Simple technique that works every time.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thomas: "It doesn't help the greater good of our world or equality of opportunity exchanging insults."</p>
<p>That is, assuming I give a flying toss about either.<br />
If the man gives me abuse, I give him stick in return. If he said that to me face to face, I would have decked him. Simple technique that works every time.
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		<title>By: John M.J.</title>
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		<dc:creator>John M.J.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes, I agree with Thomas at comment 32. Let us be civil, for Heaven&#039;s sake!</description>
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		<title>By: John M.J.</title>
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		<dc:creator>John M.J.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Comment 18 to this post, from the poster ‘Zotova’, reads as follows
First of all, you, homosexuals, have to address your habits! It is so unfair that today no one can freely say what homosexuality is. It is a sickness, that is, gender identity disorder, which does serious harm to a person&#039;s life and society. Well, of course, homosexual activists portray it in a different light, but, oh man, what harm they do to those poor sick people and to our society! So, leave the tax alone and think better about what madness you are in!!!
Let me say, Zotova, that homosexuality is not a habit – it is what we are and what we are made, we did not choose to be gay. We are gay, and were born this way. Secondly, our sexuality is not a sickness nor is it a disease, nor is it, as you state, a ‘gender identity disorder’. Our homosexuality is, simply, part of the vast panoply of difference within our species: some of us humans have dark skins, some of us have light skins, some of us are female, some of us are male, some of us have dark hair, some of us have light hair, some of us have green eyes and some of us have brown eyes. Some of us are inclined to be conservative (note the lower case ‘c’) and some of us are inclined to be leftist (note the small ‘l’). Some of us humans like the ocean and some don’t. Some like and appreciate modern art and some don’t. Some of us are gay and some aren’t. Being gay, or being straight, is just a natural part of being human.

Being gay, or straight, does no harm to a person’s life nor does it do any harm to society unless people like you let it do harm by twisting your loving relationships into hatred and falsehood by deliberately denying that people can be different, are allowed to be different, in every respect. I suggest that you examine the harm that you do by your petty and ill-considered calumnies against gay people.

Your desperate attempt to divide gay people into two groups – ‘homosexual activists’ and, presumably, the ‘habit’ ridden others who merely follow our lead – is silly and illogical. There is absolutely no evidence that we who are the ‘homosexual activists’ of your wild and silly imaginings, that you decry, do any harm whatsoever, but there is ample evidence that you, and people like you, destroy lives and relationships and cause great harm and great hurts – but, of course, you would deny that, for you, and others like you, deny that you can cause pain. What is much worse is that you, and your cohorts, deny that we gay people can feel pain – you, and people like you, don’t just see us as other, as different but the same, you see us in some sense as non-human. That is what I find most worrying about your reply on this thread – the sense that you view gay people as being somehow not human.

Finally, we do not inflict harm upon our societies – upon your societies. You, and others like you, merely assume that we do because you have a completely irrational hatred of difference. Our caring societies move on and improve themselves and accept, despite your denial, that partnerships, that sexual relationships of all sorts, have to be included in the body legal and the body politic – that all of us, no matter how we love, have to pay our taxes and serve our countries and get some form of recognition in return.

Homosexuality is not a sickness – it is a natural part of being human. It is part of what we, us humans, are. The sickness, the real sickness, the sickness which you so copiously demonstrate, is the denial of our infinite diversity as a species. The sickness, the real sickness, is the silly assertion which you make that everything is allowed to have many different meanings and expressions and ways of being and doing, but human sexuality must not, is not, allowed to have that right.

I’m reminded, irresistibly, of the old joke:

A researcher bursts into his supervisor’s office. “I’ve just ascertained, by experiment, that there are one hundred different ways of having sex,” he loudly asserts.

“Nonsense,” replies the supervisor, “There is only one way of having sex – the man on top of the woman,!”

“One hundred and one!” the researcher immediately exclaims.

You’re stuck at the one hundred and incapable of moving to the one hundred and one, ‘Zotova’. You start from the false premise that homosexuality equals sin and then you go on from there. You don’t have any real understanding of human sexuality and you deny any sense of the science which underpins our understanding of sex and sexuality. Your ignorance is profound, staggeringly so, and your willingness to insult, to denigrate and belittle the life experience of others, is quite unbelievable.

You hate – simply because you hate. May I ask who taught you to hate as you do? May I ask, further, can you free yourself from such hate? Can you do it? Can you learn to love? Can you learn to see our society as a society of differences that co-operate? But, most importantly of all, can you learn to love?

Can you learn, ‘Zotova’, to love?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Comment 18 to this post, from the poster ‘Zotova’, reads as follows<br />
First of all, you, homosexuals, have to address your habits! It is so unfair that today no one can freely say what homosexuality is. It is a sickness, that is, gender identity disorder, which does serious harm to a person's life and society. Well, of course, homosexual activists portray it in a different light, but, oh man, what harm they do to those poor sick people and to our society! So, leave the tax alone and think better about what madness you are in!!!<br />
Let me say, Zotova, that homosexuality is not a habit – it is what we are and what we are made, we did not choose to be gay. We are gay, and were born this way. Secondly, our sexuality is not a sickness nor is it a disease, nor is it, as you state, a ‘gender identity disorder’. Our homosexuality is, simply, part of the vast panoply of difference within our species: some of us humans have dark skins, some of us have light skins, some of us are female, some of us are male, some of us have dark hair, some of us have light hair, some of us have green eyes and some of us have brown eyes. Some of us are inclined to be conservative (note the lower case ‘c’) and some of us are inclined to be leftist (note the small ‘l’). Some of us humans like the ocean and some don’t. Some like and appreciate modern art and some don’t. Some of us are gay and some aren’t. Being gay, or being straight, is just a natural part of being human.</p>
<p>Being gay, or straight, does no harm to a person’s life nor does it do any harm to society unless people like you let it do harm by twisting your loving relationships into hatred and falsehood by deliberately denying that people can be different, are allowed to be different, in every respect. I suggest that you examine the harm that you do by your petty and ill-considered calumnies against gay people.</p>
<p>Your desperate attempt to divide gay people into two groups – ‘homosexual activists’ and, presumably, the ‘habit’ ridden others who merely follow our lead – is silly and illogical. There is absolutely no evidence that we who are the ‘homosexual activists’ of your wild and silly imaginings, that you decry, do any harm whatsoever, but there is ample evidence that you, and people like you, destroy lives and relationships and cause great harm and great hurts – but, of course, you would deny that, for you, and others like you, deny that you can cause pain. What is much worse is that you, and your cohorts, deny that we gay people can feel pain – you, and people like you, don’t just see us as other, as different but the same, you see us in some sense as non-human. That is what I find most worrying about your reply on this thread – the sense that you view gay people as being somehow not human.</p>
<p>Finally, we do not inflict harm upon our societies – upon your societies. You, and others like you, merely assume that we do because you have a completely irrational hatred of difference. Our caring societies move on and improve themselves and accept, despite your denial, that partnerships, that sexual relationships of all sorts, have to be included in the body legal and the body politic – that all of us, no matter how we love, have to pay our taxes and serve our countries and get some form of recognition in return.</p>
<p>Homosexuality is not a sickness – it is a natural part of being human. It is part of what we, us humans, are. The sickness, the real sickness, the sickness which you so copiously demonstrate, is the denial of our infinite diversity as a species. The sickness, the real sickness, is the silly assertion which you make that everything is allowed to have many different meanings and expressions and ways of being and doing, but human sexuality must not, is not, allowed to have that right.</p>
<p>I’m reminded, irresistibly, of the old joke:</p>
<p>A researcher bursts into his supervisor’s office. “I’ve just ascertained, by experiment, that there are one hundred different ways of having sex,” he loudly asserts.</p>
<p>“Nonsense,” replies the supervisor, “There is only one way of having sex – the man on top of the woman,!”</p>
<p>“One hundred and one!” the researcher immediately exclaims.</p>
<p>You’re stuck at the one hundred and incapable of moving to the one hundred and one, ‘Zotova’. You start from the false premise that homosexuality equals sin and then you go on from there. You don’t have any real understanding of human sexuality and you deny any sense of the science which underpins our understanding of sex and sexuality. Your ignorance is profound, staggeringly so, and your willingness to insult, to denigrate and belittle the life experience of others, is quite unbelievable.</p>
<p>You hate – simply because you hate. May I ask who taught you to hate as you do? May I ask, further, can you free yourself from such hate? Can you do it? Can you learn to love? Can you learn to see our society as a society of differences that co-operate? But, most importantly of all, can you learn to love?</p>
<p>Can you learn, ‘Zotova’, to love?
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		<title>By: Thomas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Now Now Boys - J Mathews and RobN - it doesn&#039;t help the greater good of our world or equality of opportunity exchanging insults. You may not agree with each of other&#039;s point of view but that is fine, it would be a very dull world if there were just one opinion. For goodness sake accept that others will think differently and celebrate the fact that in this country we can express these differences - it is a luxury those in many countries like Iran cannot do openly right now. RobN is clearly not a homophobe and has every right to express his views and likewise so does J Mathews - some will agree with one and some the other but torrents of abuse help none of us, so lets raise the level of discussion out of the gutter and be civil to one another.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now Now Boys &#8211; J Mathews and RobN &#8211; it doesn't help the greater good of our world or equality of opportunity exchanging insults. You may not agree with each of other's point of view but that is fine, it would be a very dull world if there were just one opinion. For goodness sake accept that others will think differently and celebrate the fact that in this country we can express these differences &#8211; it is a luxury those in many countries like Iran cannot do openly right now. RobN is clearly not a homophobe and has every right to express his views and likewise so does J Mathews &#8211; some will agree with one and some the other but torrents of abuse help none of us, so lets raise the level of discussion out of the gutter and be civil to one another.
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		<title>By: RobN</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tony: Thank you for that explanation. However, social benefits, dole, support etc are not the remit of the Inland Revenue. I realise there are differences, and it&#039;s appreciated you can explain that, but going on the original thread, are there spcific differences in tax law between gay and straight people?

J Mathews: You wish you could get a copy, yet you state &quot;Tax advice for gay people is different, for many reasons, and so it makes sense to do this.&quot; - Either you do understand it, or you don&#039;t.

As for me being a closeted wee homophobe fighting his sexual identity, you really do talk utter shite. I have been quite out and open for many years, had numerous partners, and have absolutely no problem with my sexuality. However, I have serious problems with arsewipes like you. You have &quot;victim&quot; tattooed on your forehead, a chip on your shoulder, and your brains in your bollocks. Anyone that criticises you is automatically homophobic. Maybe I just can&#039;t stand twats. Is there such a thing as &quot;twatophobic&quot;? Or is that equally socially unacceptable?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tony: Thank you for that explanation. However, social benefits, dole, support etc are not the remit of the Inland Revenue. I realise there are differences, and it's appreciated you can explain that, but going on the original thread, are there spcific differences in tax law between gay and straight people?</p>
<p>J Mathews: You wish you could get a copy, yet you state "Tax advice for gay people is different, for many reasons, and so it makes sense to do this." &#8211; Either you do understand it, or you don't.</p>
<p>As for me being a closeted wee homophobe fighting his sexual identity, you really do talk utter shite. I have been quite out and open for many years, had numerous partners, and have absolutely no problem with my sexuality. However, I have serious problems with arsewipes like you. You have "victim" tattooed on your forehead, a chip on your shoulder, and your brains in your bollocks. Anyone that criticises you is automatically homophobic. Maybe I just can't stand twats. Is there such a thing as "twatophobic"? Or is that equally socially unacceptable?
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		<title>By: tony</title>
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		<description>@RobN
Civil partnership differs greatly from common-law-marriage. With civil partnership your partner can inherit from you without paying tax, but in a common-law-marriage the inheritance is zapped by death tax. Also as a civil partner if you are unemployed you cannot claim dole if your partner is working. These are just two examples, but the list is long.

Civil partnership is nothing like common-law-mariage- which has no real legal standing. It is far more like civil marriage.

There are lots of ways in which gay people might need different tax advice. I can claim over £1000 a year against tax for childcare- how does this work as a gay co-parent? I have no idea. I will have to find out if my babymother and her wife can both claim the same or if the amount is limited per child. All three of us are legally entitled to certain parental benefits so how does this translate into tax. That is just one example of many.</description>
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Civil partnership differs greatly from common-law-marriage. With civil partnership your partner can inherit from you without paying tax, but in a common-law-marriage the inheritance is zapped by death tax. Also as a civil partner if you are unemployed you cannot claim dole if your partner is working. These are just two examples, but the list is long.</p>
<p>Civil partnership is nothing like common-law-mariage- which has no real legal standing. It is far more like civil marriage.</p>
<p>There are lots of ways in which gay people might need different tax advice. I can claim over £1000 a year against tax for childcare- how does this work as a gay co-parent? I have no idea. I will have to find out if my babymother and her wife can both claim the same or if the amount is limited per child. All three of us are legally entitled to certain parental benefits so how does this translate into tax. That is just one example of many.
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		<description>Eddy, near the top.  I could not agree with you more.  There are too, too many young gay people who quite wrongly think they are completely protected, and yet they are not.  My thoughts go to those who knew your friend who passed away.

Please don&#039;t respond to RobN, he is a nasty wee homophobe, hiding in the closet.  It is impossible to reason with him, whilst he fights his sexual identity.  He gets a kick from those who reply to him.

As regards the tax advice, I cannot see what the problem is, I just wish I could get a copy, without having to travel to London pride in order to do so.

Those complaining are simply using this as a flimsy cover for their rampant homophobia.  Why is giving tax advice politically correct???  I cannot fathom it at all.  

Tax advice for gay people is different, for many reasons, and so it makes sense to do this.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eddy, near the top.  I could not agree with you more.  There are too, too many young gay people who quite wrongly think they are completely protected, and yet they are not.  My thoughts go to those who knew your friend who passed away.</p>
<p>Please don't respond to RobN, he is a nasty wee homophobe, hiding in the closet.  It is impossible to reason with him, whilst he fights his sexual identity.  He gets a kick from those who reply to him.</p>
<p>As regards the tax advice, I cannot see what the problem is, I just wish I could get a copy, without having to travel to London pride in order to do so.</p>
<p>Those complaining are simply using this as a flimsy cover for their rampant homophobia.  Why is giving tax advice politically correct???  I cannot fathom it at all.  </p>
<p>Tax advice for gay people is different, for many reasons, and so it makes sense to do this.
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		<description>I am gay.  I have just enetered into a civil partnership.  I have no idea of the tax implications.  So, yes, this is helpful.  Why would anyone object to something so eminently sensible?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am gay.  I have just enetered into a civil partnership.  I have no idea of the tax implications.  So, yes, this is helpful.  Why would anyone object to something so eminently sensible?
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		<description>RobN
A Civil Partnership definitely differs from a &quot;common-law&quot; marraige in the fact that the former is a legal relationship, while the latter doesn&#039;t actually exist as a legal entity.

However a gay man with a partner (not a CP) will still be treated as mutually dependant for benefit purposes (as unmarried couples are).  And because CPs are a new invention I imagine there&#039;s a lot of law to test</description>
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A Civil Partnership definitely differs from a "common-law" marraige in the fact that the former is a legal relationship, while the latter doesn't actually exist as a legal entity.</p>
<p>However a gay man with a partner (not a CP) will still be treated as mutually dependant for benefit purposes (as unmarried couples are).  And because CPs are a new invention I imagine there's a lot of law to test
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		<title>By: RobN</title>
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		<description>Tony: Can you please elaborate how a gay man differs from a single man&#039;s tax, or civil partnerships differ from a common law marriage?
I am sure everything you need to know is already out there in some form or another, and to wrap it in this PC nonsense is extravagant and unnecessary.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tony: Can you please elaborate how a gay man differs from a single man's tax, or civil partnerships differ from a common law marriage?<br />
I am sure everything you need to know is already out there in some form or another, and to wrap it in this PC nonsense is extravagant and unnecessary.
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@RobN  Of course there is a lot of specific advice needed by LGBT people. I just started writing some examples from my own life and suddenly realised there was quite a lot, but that I was going into much more intimate personal detail than I wanted. There are issues about different forms of partnership legislation, tax credits, parenting arrangements, wills, tax returns etc etc.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://twitter.com/RobN" rel="nofollow">@RobN</a>  Of course there is a lot of specific advice needed by LGBT people. I just started writing some examples from my own life and suddenly realised there was quite a lot, but that I was going into much more intimate personal detail than I wanted. There are issues about different forms of partnership legislation, tax credits, parenting arrangements, wills, tax returns etc etc.
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		<description>Brian Burton: Either make a sentient point, or put a fucking sock in it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brian Burton: Either make a sentient point, or put a fucking sock in it.
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;It is a sickness&quot;. So it&#039;s not a choice then?

Tell me, Zotova, how has your life been directly affected by greater public acceptance of homosexuality? And what is the &quot;cure&quot; to this serious and contageous &quot;illness&quot;. I&#039;m just curious. I&#039;m sure you&#039;ll read this because homophobes, like yourself, seem to love spending time on gay websites.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>"It is a sickness". So it's not a choice then?</p>
<p>Tell me, Zotova, how has your life been directly affected by greater public acceptance of homosexuality? And what is the "cure" to this serious and contageous "illness". I'm just curious. I'm sure you'll read this because homophobes, like yourself, seem to love spending time on gay websites.
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>do these people that think we don&#039;t have the right to this info also critise leaflets being available in foreign languages? I think its good that services and info are tailored to minority groups, and what a good idea this to make the info available at the pride</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>do these people that think we don't have the right to this info also critise leaflets being available in foreign languages? I think its good that services and info are tailored to minority groups, and what a good idea this to make the info available at the pride
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		<description>RobN,

You are Too political-Correct yourself and you expect everyone to follow your ultra-supid examples, Go crawl back under that rock you ninny!</description>
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<p>You are Too political-Correct yourself and you expect everyone to follow your ultra-supid examples, Go crawl back under that rock you ninny!
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