Originally Posted by
DavidJames:
“Ah, I can fogive anyone who shoehorns a Leslie Nielsen reference, may he rest in peace. 
And it's reasonable.
So I'm wondering if anyone's actually got evidence of Ann making unambiguously homophobic comments? Or, has she simply occasionally acted in a way which is consistent with homophobia?
Hmmm... that sounds like the OP to me... 
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Yes, she's said lots of homophobic things, I quoted some earlier. She's done lot's of homophobic things, which is more valid evidence.
In 2000, she said gay lifestyles did not have “equal validity” with heterosexual relationships.
btw, I don't really care if she thinks it's ok to say that because neither do 'unmarried people' gay people can never get married here, hence they don't have equality,
Ann: "I do not back the Civil Partnerships Registration Scheme as it means homosexual marriage in all but name."
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ar...#ixzz16zLkLTnM
Quote:
“Former Tory MP Ann Widdecombe has attacked a judge’s decision to allow two gay asylum seekers the right to stay in the UK.
Writing in the Daily Express, Ms Widdecombe argued that the decision was “absurd” and that the pair should not have been allowed asylum because neither were facing immediate risk of death or imprisonment.
She wrote that the men, from Iran and Cameroon (where they have the death penalty and imprisonment for gays respectively), “seem to have wanted to come here merely so that they can be overt about their lifestyles”.”
Quote:
“Gay lifestyles do not have "equal validity" with heterosexual relationships, shadow home secretary Ann Widdecombe has told a Scottish newspaper.
Miss Widdecombe told Scotland on Sunday that homosexual relationships were not equal to the "preferred model" of marriage.
Earlier this week shadow chancellor Michael Portillo called for the Conservatives to accept gays in their ranks.
But in an interview with the paper, Miss Widdecombe said she did not understand what Mr Portillo's "social tolerance" meant.
As long as you have a preferred model then you can't afford things equal validity
Ann Widdecombe, shadow home secretary
"I don't understand this phrase," she said.
"But if that means we are tolerating anti-social behaviour or making all forms of lifestyle equal and not having a preferred model, then we have never been that sort of party and we don't propose to be that sort of party."
However, Miss Widdecombe did attempt to minimise differences between herself and Mr Portillo.
She said their vision of Britain were not "radically different".
"If Michael's vision of Britain was so radically different from mine then I would have a problem," she said.
"But there are differences of emphasis - I would not go back to the days when homosexuality was illegal or when you stamped 'illegitimate' all over a baby's head if it was born out of wedlock, but I do want a preferred model and that is the issue.
"And as long as you have a preferred model then you can't afford things equal validity."”
