Positive Liberty

Now look, people. I’ve heard of demonization, but this is ridiculous.

A high ranking Conservative member of the House of Lords says that the push for civil rights by gays is leading to a nation of obese people.[....]

Tebbit, the former chair of the Tory party and its current Whip in the Lords, was debating the growing problem of obesity with a member of the governing Labor party on a British radio program.

He suggested Labor’s “promotion of buggery” was “intimately connected” to the increasing number of overweight people.

“Families now so seldom eat together. They don’t prepare meals properly. Wives are pressurized into thinking they ought to go out to work instead of looking after their children. And it is the breakdown of family that is at the root of it.”

And here I thought the stereotypical gay man–in the words of Jerry Seinfeld–was “thin, single, and neat.” Maybe so, but they’re making everyone else fat, and it’s got to stop.