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November 28, 2003


Councilman calls gays perverts; police disown him

English police have criticized a local councilman for whipping up a gay hate storm by branding queer people as perverts. In a letter to the Wiltshire Times headlined "gays and lesbians are perverts," never a good start, Liberal Democrat Councillor Ben Biddulph says gayness is an anti-Christian practice on a par with bestiality and pedophilia. An article in the paper last week about two lesbians who were attacked after kissing in a pub sparked the outburst from Biddulph, 27.

This is Wiltshire




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