UKIP Scotland
So much for Free Speech in the CONservative Party
Wednesday, 28th April 2010
What a knee jerk reaction to the PC brigade by the CONservative Party. Sacking a candidate for speaking out on a subject many voters have concerns about. So much for Free Speech in the CONservative Party.
Mr Lardner was suspended by party chiefs within minutes of the blog entry being publicised
THE CONservatives were rocked yesterday after the party was forced to suspend one of its Scottish candidates after he described homosexuality as "not normal" and called for a public ban on promoting gay relationships to be re-imposed.
Philip Lardner, the Conservative candidate in North Ayrshire and Arran, used a blog entry to declare that most of the population believed homosexuality "to be somewhere between unfortunate and simply wrong". He added that the promotion of homosexuality in schools had been "correctly outlawed by Mrs Thatcher's government", and added that "in the interests of freedom", Christian groups should be allowed to discriminate against gay men and women.
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