THE relentless march of minority jihad tramples on another group of fine people. The firefighters of Cowcaddens Red Watch, disciplined last week for not attending a gay pride march to "hand out fire safety leaf lets", have become the real minority victims of this sorry tale of PC-driven ineptitude.
We are at a stage now when a march merely to show off a group's pride in being homosexual or lesbian has ridden roughshod over the working lives, rights and families of some very fine people. This includes a devastating financial loss of GBP5000 a year to one of their number, which will have ramifications for many years to come. This is no one-off fine: it is a severe and ongoing loss not merely for him but for his family, as it will affect his pension for the rest of his life.
This was no gathering of civil rights marchers trying to make sure that members of their minority are not murdered for being of the wrong type in the wrong place. This was, in fact, not a march to promote anything other than the right to f launt sexual preference in the faces of people who in the main don't give a damn. The firefighters refused to attend this march because it forced them to actually take part, then attempt to engage participants on the subject of fire safety during the "Oot in the Square" party afterwards. This was an event where militant gay men and women (some dressed as priests and nuns, with some barely dressed at all) , would have been consuming alcohol, only to then be confronted by firefighters in full uniform.
Strathclyde Fire and Rescue had asked for volunteers to take part in this march and none of its employees, including, presumably, its gay ones, came forward. The men of Red Watch then became the lambs on the altar of politically-correct expediency rebranded as community safety and were ordered to attend regardless of personal unease and lack of training.
In writing this letter I will be branded a homophobe by the minority jihadi industry; let's not let the truth get in the way of a good witchhunt.
P M Dickson, 59 Mailing Avenue, Bishopbriggs.
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