Must not call probable homosexuals "gay"???
Batty Britain again. Isn't homosexuality supposed to be wonderful there?
"A man and a 14-year-old boy have been banned from attending football matches for three years for shouting homophobic chants at Portsmouth and former England defender Sol Campbell [pic above]. Ian Trow, 42, from Milton Keynes in southern England, and the boy – who cannot be named for legal reasons – pleaded not guilty to indecent chanting but were convicted by magistrates in Portsmouth overnight.
The chants were aimed at Campbell during a match against his former club Tottenham at Portsmouth's Fratton Park stadium in September last year.
After a three-hour trial, Georgette Holbrook, chairwoman of the magistrates' panel, found the two defendants had chanted: “Come on gay boy, that's my gay boy.” She said: “We find that the words used were in extremely bad taste, they were inappropriate, shocking and disgusting, and as such they were indecent.”
In a statement read to the court, Campbell said he had felt “totally victimised and helpless by the abuse I received.
Both Trow and the boy were banned from watching football matches for three years, while Trow was also fined STG500 ($1000) and ordered to pay STG400 ($800) costs.
The prosecuting authorities in England said that while cases of racist chanting have been prosecuted before, this was the first case of indecent chanting to be brought to the courts.
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"gay" is "indecent"? Whatever happened to "gay pride"? Some very confused thinking there.
Note that Campbell does not deny being homosexual above but that he has never "come out". The fact that he is black may account for that. The view that he is homosexual is widespread because of a number of unusual things about him -- such as an interest in fashion, an inability to bond with fellow footballers and a high level of emotionality.
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The entire nation of Britain should be put into a padded cell and medicated so they can't hurt themselves, or anyone else. It is truly amazing to me to see how this one great nation (well, some may think so) has fallen to such depths of stupidity and weakness, for only a weak-minded people whould allow political correctness to change not only how they think and speak, but how they actually live their lives. BTW, the US is sinking into that same pit.
Some day, "if" people ever regain their ability to think for themselves, they will realize that political correctness is a much greater threat to their freedom than is terrorism.
"gay" is an indecent word?
Sounds like the courts are using hate speech. Some one should prosecute the judge.
Ruling: Judge is homophobic, banned from the courts for three years.
That'll go over like a fart in church.
A word can be indecent depending on the context it's used.
In this case, "gay" was used as an insult.
What does surprise me is that anyone actually cared, sports fans often shout the most vile insults during the games. The brits would be better off worrying about hooligans.
Perhaps soccer matches should be banned for 3 or more years - as they hardly bring out the best in people - it's a reversion to base group hysteria. On the other hand it may act like the Romans' "bread & circuses" to defuse the frustrations of the masses and deflect a political revolution.
The lads should have intoned the POOFER chant!
Is it just me or is all this "hate speech" crap starting to sound a lot like the Salem witch trials?
"That'll go over like a fart in church."
One of my favourite pastimes.
Hey, if the butt plug fits....
Man I can't live in Britain the fact that freedom will soon be a distant memory in the United States leaves me depressed and I can't help but feel disgust at the people who made this slip into a police state!
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