[quote]Over 3,000 people in the space of a day have signed a petition calling for the DUP's Edwin Poots to resign or be removed from his post as Northern Ireland's health minister.
The senior politician has come under fire for his stance on issues like gay people donating blood or adopting children.
Those behind the online petition are accusing him of "squandering public money in the pursuit of a personal agenda against unmarried and same sex couples".
Mr Poots has previously told UTV that, in taking the legal battle against the extension of adoption rights to the Supreme Court, his actions were not aimed at any particular community.
He claimed that "95% of people" in Northern Ireland were opposed to the legislation being changed to accommodate unmarried or same sex couples.
"Queen's University have a report which started in 2003 which identified that 99% of children in adopted homes had stability," Mr Poots added.
"And the reason for that was the rigorous assessment process that took place."
Those behind the petition against the health minister claim that Mr Poots has spent £17,000 on the adoption issue, "denying children the best opportunity to a loving and stable family".
They estimate the final cost as being in the region of £40,000 and claim that data used to justify the action is, "by his own department's admission", flawed.
On the issue of blood donation, the petition's creators claim £37,000 has been spent preventing gay men participating, "at complete odds with blood donation advice in every other part of the UK".[/quote]
SOURCE: [URL]http://www.u.tv/News/Thousands-sign-petition-against-Poots/33999e9b-1c58-463b-b57a-e9aed5ccf6e4[/URL]
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