(July 31, 2017 at 6:00 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Can you reveal now who person a and b were?
Lutrinae found it, it's Scottish politics. Person A is David Mundell MP, Person B is Oliver Mundell MSP, the Blogger is Wings Over Scotland.
The additional twist to the story is that a prominent politician from a different party called the comment homophobic in her newspaper column and in parliament, and is now being sued for defamation.
The whole thing is causing various dramas in Scottish political discussions. I agree with the vast majority here, it's clearly dickish but not homophobic. I wanted to get a clean reaction from people with no dog in the fight, because everybody fighting about it online for the past week has too many dogs in the fight.
To be honest, while many of those people have called the comment homophobic, none has provided a clearly argued reason for it. I hoped if there was such a case, this would be the place to find it. Astonished's first comment came the closest, and I think he made some very valid points, but still not enough to push it from "hurtful and dickish" to anything actually discriminatory.
Thank you all for your input, it's been very refreshing to hear impartial perspectives.
