LGBT Groups: Mental-Health Needs

Part of Health, Social Services And Public Safety – in the Northern Ireland Assembly at 2:30 am on 30 June 2008.

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Photo of Iris Robinson Iris Robinson DUP 2:30, 30 June 2008

Over the past few weeks, some people have attempted to suggest that I indicated that homosexuality is a mental-health issue, and they have twisted everything that was said on Stephen Nolan’s radio show. I have got broad shoulders, and can take the brickbats that followed from that. However, nothing could be further from the truth. What I did say was that homosexuality —

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Keith Simpson
Posted on 2 Aug 2008 6:42 pm (Report this annotation)

How can you say that HOMOSEXUALITY is a sin; you know everything do you...?
God Himself told you so did He?
I do not think so.
You so-called religious types make me sick to my stomach and you are as far from true understanding of Christianity as can be.
I was a Roman Catholic and so I have been at the 'high table' so to speak, a member of a 'proper' religion, in fact the true religion and yet I have dumped that and haven't been in a church for almost 50 years and won't do so, not even when I am dead; I hate religion, all of it and all of you.
You have not a clue what homosexuality is, not a clue none of you.
I am homosexual and I HAVEN'T a clue what it is; how can YOU?
I did not choose it and I personally think it is in the genes but we do not know; not for sure.
Until we do, kindly keep your silly traps shut; kindly keep your pontificating to your immediate circle of like-minded twits (and in that I include the Pontiff)
and remember the Lord, your Master, Who, when the stone-casters had slowly melted away from their victim asked her where her accusers were.
She, not knowing, said to Jesus that she did not know.
He replied saying.....
Well you know what He said.

Keith Simpson.