The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #157252   Message #3710197
Posted By: Steve Shaw
20-May-15 - 07:39 AM
Thread Name: BS: Can't have your gay cake and eat it
Subject: RE: BS: Can't have your gay cake and eat it
Dead right, Nigel. These activists, who are fighting a centuries-old tide of bigotry and discrimination, are such nuisances, aren't they? Let's look at it another way round. Without "test cases" the bigotry holds sway for another ten, twenty, thirty years? Let sleeping dogs lie, eh? Just shrug and find another cake shop, eh? But, whatever you do, don't make a noise?

I don't know whether the chap was an activist looking for a test case or not. But, if he was, then I say all power to his elbow for hurrying along the cause of getting rid of discrimination against gay people. We make progress because of people like him. We stay where we are by doing that peculiarly British thing of "not making a fuss".