Daily Mail Lives Up To Their Homophobic Nature

This article originally had the headline “Why there was nothing ‘Natural’ about Stephen Gately’s death” before being changed.

To me, the whole purpose of this article is to attack homosexuals and to cite homophobic hatred. Jan Moir’s insensitivity is not just of Stephen’s death, but also brings Matt Lucas’ ex-partner into the equation as well to prove a pathetic point.

Let’s get something straight (pardon the pun), Stephen’s sexuality had nothing to do with his unfortunate death. Neither has what had happened that night. As confirmed in the coroner’s report, Stephen died of acute pulmonary edema, yet Jan Moir continues to express in her article that she doesn’t believe this is to be true and that it was Stephen’s lifestyle which was the cause of his death.

What qualifications does Jan have to make such an outrageous accusation without firstly, doing the autopsy herself (or even seeing the full report…and understanding it) and secondly, understanding the full situation of the event running up to Stephen’s death? As she has pointed out in the article she doesn’t know anything (by asking a lot of irrelevant questions) more than everyone else, yet feels she is in a position to say otherwise!!! Wrong!!!

This article then goes on to criticise civil partnerships, hinting that she disagrees with them using this and another recent incident of Matt Lucas and Kevin McGee to strengthen her weak argument.

Let’s stress that, Matt and Kevin’s partnership breakdown has no comparisons to Stephen and Andrew’s relationship (they were still happily living together). So why was it used?

She has mentioned a couple of relationships which didn’t work, however never mentioned a single straight relationship that have been in similar situations.

I am not going to sit here and say that all gay relationships are perfect. However, I am not going to say that about straight relationship’s either.

If you look at passed straight relationships and see if there is any similarities then you know no matter what sexuality, there is always going to be up and downs.

For example, their was the Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie love triangle. Then you have Chris Tarrant and his affairs. Plus what about Jude Law and the ‘wife’ swapping scenario that he supposedly did. Although, I was not a huge biology fan, I am sure that these are straight relationships and goes to show that just like civil partnerships, marriages don’t always last either!!! Unfortunately, some relationships do end no matter who is in them.

But what needs to be remembered is that Stephen and Andrew’s relationship was not on the rocks. They were still happily together.

In relation to what happened the night of Stephen’s death. I am not going to judge people and how they act behind closed doors. As long as both are happy then so be it. People are entitled to a little privacy.

As you can imagine, Jan Moir’s hatred has caused an uproar on the Internet, with celebrities such as Stephen Fry and Antony Cotton providing their opinion. Plus, larger advertisers, such as Marks & Spencers and Nestle have asked for their adverts to be removed the page with the article stating the ‘do not tolerate any form of discrimationation’ and ‘comments were in breach of the Swiss company’s code for “mutal respect and tolerance”‘. Personally, I don’t feel the companies went far enough. If they were totally against these comments, then they should have removed all future adverts with the Daily Mail (paper and online) with immediate effect.

There has supposedly also been over 1000 complaints made to the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) about the article which led to it crashing. Let’s hope that something is done about this pathetic excuse of journalism!!!

If you want to make sure your voice is heard, then make a complaint to PCC. As tweeter kenrayner says, “[Jan Moir] breaches 1, 3, 5 & 12 of the code”.

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Daily Mail: A strange, lonely troubling death…
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