Results 1-12 of 12 for gay speaker:Julian Brazier

Orders of the Day: British Board of Film Classification (Accountability to Parliament and Appeals) Bill (29 Feb 2008)

Julian Brazier: ...turn to one more example, from a quarter that might surprise some Members of the House. Boyz magazine has given me the following quote and asked me to use it: "As the leading and longest-standing gay weekly magazine, Boyz has taken a stance against bareback videos"— that is, sex scenes showing males operating without condoms. It goes on to say that "we reported last October that...

Orders of the Day: British Board of Film Classification (Accountability to Parliament and Appeals) Bill (29 Feb 2008)

Julian Brazier: ...grateful to my hon. Friend and I hope that my next example will make that point almost as well as he has just made it. Let me return to the testimony from Boyz magazine, our largest circulation gay magazine, as this particular provision is the one that it most strongly supports: "If there was an independent body in place with the power to hear appeals against the BBFC's decisions, then...

Voluntary Adoption Sector (21 Feb 2007)

Julian Brazier: ...prefer the word "interests" to the word "rights", because the rights dialogue gets us further into a muddle—conflict with those of the prospective parents. The practical fact is that only one gay couple has ever approached the Catholic Adoption Society, while hundreds of children have been through its hands. If the regulations go through, thousands of children will be unable to have...

Voluntary Adoption Sector (21 Feb 2007)

Julian Brazier: ...children have now been adopted, and they are progressing well within their own limitations. However, all that is being put at risk. Nobody is missing out on the opportunity to adopt under the current arrangements. Gay couples form only 4 per cent. of the pool and, as far as the records show, only one gay couple has ever applied to the Catholic Children's Society. They were courteously and...

Voluntary Adoption Sector (21 Feb 2007)

Julian Brazier: The essential issue with regard to a refusal to treat gay people is whether an individual gets treatment. Ministers themselves have said that the most important issue in this case is the welfare of children. Stopping the activity of the Catholic Children's Society will not allow a single extra placement, but it will mean losing the hundreds of placements that are handled at the moment by the...

Voluntary Adoption Sector (21 Feb 2007)

Julian Brazier: It is not a question of blackmail; the issue is straightforward. The Catholic Church will not place children with gay couples and has a conscientious objection to doing so, and it cannot continue to do so within the scope of the new law. A number of wider issues are raised. I mentioned that of abortion, but one that is more immediately topical is that of governors' appointments of teachers to...

Adoption and Children Bill: Clause 44 — Suitability Of Adopters (4 Nov 2002)

Mr Julian Brazier: ...clear when I answered the question of my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham earlier that my first choice for adoption would always be a married couple. I accept the principle of the occasional gay adoption, but only when there is no one else available. Hard cases make bad law—[Interruption.] I give way to the hon. Gentleman.

Sex Education (25 Apr 2001)

Mr Julian Brazier: ...schools. One that has been extensively discussed before is the video provided by Avon health authority, which invited 14-year-olds to act out roles such as a married man caught cottaging--having gay sex in a public lavatory. The same video featured a 13-year-old advising pupils to try both boys and girls until they found which they preferred. In my own patch, East Kent health authority...

Orders of the Day — Prohibition on Promotion of Homosexuality: Bullying (5 Jul 2000)

Mr Julian Brazier: ...health authority warned that teachers should not use resources which advocate monogamy or marriage as a solution to HIV. A north London health authority produced a curriculum of material, including gay material, to be used in primary schools. The fact that nearly all the worst examples come from health authorities not covered by section 28 suggests to me that the section is making a...

Orders of the Day — Prohibition on Promotion of Homosexuality: Bullying (5 Jul 2000)

Mr Julian Brazier: ...of the rest of society—lifestyles and values which most people reject. The Anglican Bishop of Liverpool, the Rev. James Jones, said that section 28 seeks to prevent the promotion of a gay lifestyle as a moral equivalent to heterosexual marriage. It recognises that education is a formative experience and has a unique role in the development of not just individual pupils but of society...

Points of Order (28 Jul 1998)

Mr Julian Brazier: ...on a point affecting the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, which may help hon. Members later this evening? It has been widely canvassed that, if the House decides to drop the amendment relating to the gay age of consent, it may come back in a new measure in the new Session. Would you rule on whether the 12-month delaying power of the other place would be triggered tonight or on Second Reading...

New clause 3: Amendment of Law Relating to (21 Feb 1994)

Mr Julian Brazier: Has my hon. Friend seen the figures from America, where different states have a range of approaches to the age of consent and gay rights? Does she know that in those states and cities, such as San Francisco, where the laws are most liberal, the incidence not only of AIDS but of hepatitis A, hepatitis B and gay bowel syndrome is vastly higher than in those states that have tight laws on...