Ukip donor pays for Telegraph advert to claim 'sodomy has always been a crime'.
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[i]Demetri Marchessini, who gave two donations of £5,000 each to Ukip last year, as pictured on his blog. This is not believed to be a recent photograph.[/i]
[quote]A businessman who gave £10,000 to the UK Independence party hastaken out an advertisement in the Daily Telegraph describing "sodomy" as a crime and saying there is no such word as "homophobic".
Demetri Marchessini, who gave two donations of £5,000 to Ukip last year, paid for an open letter to be published in the newspaper attacking Times columnist Libby Purves after she wrote about Russia's "bashing" of gay people in the runup to the Sochi Olympics.
In the advertisement, which appeared the day after Ukip leader Nigel Farage said he wanted to distance his party from barmy types, Marchessini declared "sodomy has always been a crime" and homosexuality has been a sin for 2,000 years.
"It has already been repeatedly explained to her [Purves], that there is no such word as 'homophobic'. It cannot be found in any dictionary, nor does it have any meaning," Marchessini wrote, even though it is listed in many.
"What Miss Purves and many others cannot grasp is the fact that when our government made homosexuality legal, it did not make it moral. Governments can decide on laws, but only God decides on morality. How can anybody, let alone Miss Purvis [sic], tell people what they should think about homosexuality?"
The Greek businessman has previously caused controversy for saying women dressed in trousers are showing hostile behaviour, unmarried mothers deserve a good smack and that date rape is an invention of feminists.[/quote]
[url]http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jan/28/ukip-donor-telegraph-advert-sodomy-crime-libby-purves[/url]
duh, crime play is hot
[QUOTE]homosexuality has been a sin for 2,000 years[/QUOTE]
Did this man just claim that the Old Testament was written 2,000 years ago and was not completely adopted from Judaism, which had existed before the Christian religion had ever been brought into existence with the birth of Jesus, who was killed under laws written in the same collection of books?
I am impressed at how stupid this man is. We should put him on display and have people laugh at him.
[QUOTE]How can anybody, let alone Miss Purvis [sic], tell people what they should think about homosexuality?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, well, I think it's not all that big of a deal, so how about fucking right off.
[QUOTE=Snowmew;43742502]I am impressed at how stupid this man is. We should put him on display and have people laugh at him.[/QUOTE]
We should put the whole of UKIP on display for this purpose as well.
[QUOTE=Snowmew;43742502]I am impressed at how stupid this man is. We should put him on display and have people laugh at him.[/QUOTE]
we should pay a newspaper to run an ad exposing his stupidity
oh wait
So what?
Someone could donate £5 to UKIP and then murder someone.
[b]Headline! All UKIP Donors Are Murderators![/b]
[QUOTE=SCopE5000;43742530]So what?
Someone could donate £5 to UKIP and then murder someone.
[b]Headline! All UKIP Donors Are Murderators![/b][/QUOTE]
it's okay, I can't read either :smile:
[QUOTE=SCopE5000;43742530]So what?
Someone could donate £5 to UKIP and then murder someone.
[b]Headline! All UKIP Donors Are Murderators![/b][/QUOTE]
That's spinny
so if like MaxOfS2D murders someone, he becomes a murderator?
I wonder if society will get more and more conservative as human lifespan gets longer, because these bastards aren't dying.
[QUOTE=SeamanStains;43743734]I wonder if society will get more and more conservative as human lifespan gets longer, because these bastards aren't dying.[/QUOTE]
Those damn liberals are too busy marrying gay people and helping the underprivileged to develop immortality.
(it should not have to be said that younger generations are traditionally more liberal throughout recorded history, especially in the past few centuries)
[quote] when our government made homosexuality legal, it did not make it moral.[/quote]
[quote]mor·al
ˈmôrəl,ˈmär-/
holding or manifesting high principles for proper conduct.[/quote]
she is confusing the words here, the government making homosexuality and sodomy legal does make it moral, morality is what society determines to be right or wrong, and the legal code reflects society, the word she is looking for is ethical, and that is wholly internal, what is ethical to one person maybe unethical to another. morals are statements of what is right or wrong, the government says its right, then you are wrong to say its not. ethics are the questioning of why something is right or wrong. she believes it is wrong because of her religion, that is fine, but that doesn't mean its wrong to people who are gay.
[editline]31st January 2014[/editline]
*he,
wow edit isn't working...
also its not a case of if its right or wrong to you personally, britain's laws have destroyed the lives of countless people, people which have not harmed others or done anything wrong themselves. laws exist to do the most good for the most people for the least amount of effort, banning sodomy and homosexuality doesn't help anyone, it doesn't change anyone, and it hurts a select group of people directly by establishing a 2nd class citizenship for them, its an amoral law.
It's just a goofy old man, he comes from a different time. Why is this newsworthy.