More from Moir

Jan Moir has issued a statement to respond to the complaints about her article about Stephen Gately's death.

She says:
"Some people, particularly in the gay community, have been upset by my article about the sad death of Boyzone member Stephen Gately. This was never my intention. Stephen, as I pointed out in the article was a charming and sweet man who entertained millions.
"However, the point of my column-which,I wonder how many of the people complaining have fully read - was to suggest that, in my honest opinion, his death raises many unanswered questions. That was all. Yes, anyone can die at anytime of anything. However, it seems unlikely to me that what took place in the hours immediately preceding Gately’s death – out all evening at a nightclub, taking illegal substances, bringing a stranger back to the flat, getting intimate with that stranger – did not have a bearing on his death.
"At the very least, it could have exacerbated an underlying medical condition.
"The entire matter of his sudden death seemed to have been handled with undue haste when lessons could have been learned. On this subject, one very important point. When I wrote that ‘he would want to set an example to any impressionable young men who may want to emulate what they might see as his glamorous routine’, I was referring to the drugs and the casual invitation extended to a stranger. Not to the fact of his homosexuality.
"In writing that ‘it strikes another blow to the happy-ever-after myth of civil partnerships’ I was suggesting that civil partnerships – the introduction of which I am on the record in supporting – have proved just to be as problematic as marriages.
"In what is clearly a heavily orchestrated internet campaign I think it is mischievous in the extreme to suggest that my article has homophobic and bigoted undertones."

Ahhh, the poor little old lady thinks that the mischievous poofs are picking on her!!
You would think that an intelligent woman, as she is alleged to be, would know when to just shut her mouth!
Apparently no one has actually read the article! Personally, I did find it difficult to actually find the full article as I was desperately trying to avoid fuelling Daily Mail advertising funds by clicking on their website to see it. But, when I did find it, I could not help but read the whole article in my disbelief that anyone could be so vile, in the press in this day and age. It kept me going until I reached the anticipated punch line of her bad taste joke. Unfortunately there was no punch line, just a punch at a dead man and his family.
Her comments on Civil Partnerships were meant to convey her thought that they are proving to be as problematic as marriages? This comparison seems to have been missed by everyone, probably because it was not mentioned or even hinted at. In fact she does quite the opposite. In her original article Moir states that "Gay activists are always calling for tolerance and understanding about same-sex relationship, arguing that they are just the same as heterosexual marriages" then says, "in many cases they are." "In many cases" implies that the rest (most cases?) are nothing like heterosexual marriages.
Let's just hope, for her sake, that someone has a quiet word in Ms Moir's ear and tells her to shut the f*ck up before someone sets the Lesbian Avengers on her.