Masters. Western Philosophy. Hypocrisy presentation. Ben Summerskill: Nice to have pride. Shame about the bias that lingers - Commentators - Opinion. One of the starkest retorts to the BBC from The Independent on Sunday's latest Pink List is an evident 21st-century truth.
Not that all gay people are the same, but that they're hugely different. A similar list executed 50 years ago might have featured Sir Norman Hartnell, Sir John Gielgud and Sir Noël Coward, subject to their not being imprisoned for their inclusion. (After yet another Metropolitan Police witch-hunt against gays in the early 1960s, the Queen Mother observed to a dining companion: "If they go on like this, we'll have to go self-service. ") Half a century later, for every high-profile gay couturier there's a corporate accountant; for every entertainer there's a multimillionaire entrepreneur. But anti-gay sentiment certainly isn't dead in modern Britain: the List is unable to feature a single one of our talented lesbian and gay sportspeople.
Six weeks ago, it emerged that the Archbishop of Westminster had sacked a press officer after discovering he was gay. Ben Summerskill. Biography[edit] Summerskill was educated at Cobden Road Infants School, Amherst County Primary School, Sevenoaks School, where he held a scholarship, and Merton College, Oxford, where he was an Exhibitioner (holder of a junior scholarship) but which he left after two years without taking a degree.
He later wrote in The Guardian: "I still recall being struck dumb on being shown, as an undergraduate, a note from an Oxford tutor to a successful candidate's father: 'Many thanks for lunch, and the trip in the Rolls.'"[4] As chief executive of Stonewall, he succeeded Director Angela Mason in early 2003, expanding its work from parliamentary lobbying into other fields including workplace equality and campaigning against homophobia in schools. In 2006, Summerskill was appointed a Commissioner on the Britain's new Equality and Human Rights Commission. Sumerskill stood down as Chief Executive of Stonewall in January 2014.[9] “Welcome Gays, No Gay Behavior Allowed” An issue about religious freedom and discrimination has been a hot topic at philosophy blogs, recently.
You can check it out here, here, and here. The background: The American Philosophical Association (APA) has an anti-discrimination statute that forbids discrimination on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. Nevertheless, it accepts ads from Christian colleges that require all employees to sign contracts and promise not to engage in various “un-Christian” behaviors. Having a gay partner is one of these un-Christian behaviors. Now, by tolerating these schools, is the APA living up to its own statutes? A petition has been signed by about 1,200 APA members to the effect that the APA should stop accepting ads from Christian colleges.
What? So…if a college knowingly hires gay and lesbian faculty, is it discrimination based on sexual orientation if they are expected to get rid of their partners, or seek no partners, while their straight colleagues enjoy marriage and family? UK Lifts Lifetime Ban on Gay Men's Blood Donations. Blood donations by men who have sex with men (MSM) have been a controversial topic ever since the emergence of AIDS in the 1980s.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration still has a lifetime ban for all men who have sex with men since 1977. While the donation restrictions apply to the female sex partners of MSM, women who have sex with women or with heterosexual men are not affected. Gay advocates argue that the MSM ban discriminates against gay men in monogamous relationships and who practice safe sex and undertake regular HIV tests. They say authorities are hypocritical for ignoring promiscuous heterosexuals. According to a BBC report, the British gay rights group Stonewall called the move was a step in the right direction, but chief executive Ben Summerskill said high-risk heterosexuals still find it easier to donate blood than low-risk gay men. Proponents of the lifetime restriction cite the risk of false negative test results and higher prevalence of HIV/AIDS infection among gay men.
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