Hmmm!! A tricky one this. On the one hand there's the possibility that the firemen could have been displaying anti-gay prejudice - but I'll reserve judgement on that because I haven't heard their side of the story.

On the other hand there's more than a whiff of politically correct self-righteousness here. I've learned, in my longish life, that there are a lot of sanctimonious gits out there who will jump on any PC bandwagon in order to demonstrate how morally superior they are to the rest of us. All that this behaviour does is to stifle legitimate debate.