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In final week's U.K. full general election Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party lost its narrow majority, as well as is instantly beingness propped upwards yesteryear the 10 MPs from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from Northern Ireland, a political party which follows traditional Christian pedagogy on a number of issues.
One of the most problematic areas is the number of gay privilege, which the DUP opposes amongst a relatively hard-line Christian attitude. For example, they are opposed to gay spousal human relationship as well as take a dim persuasion of homosexuals inward general, although they receive got no wishing to throw them off tall buildings.
In the yesteryear the DUP mightiness receive got seemed similar natural partners for a Conservative Party needing a few to a greater extent than MPs to rest inward power, but that was earlier David Cameron's election equally leader inward 2005. Cameron decided thence that the Conservative political party was, well, too "conservative" as well as decided to "modernize" it (code for "gay it up") yesteryear fast-tracking untalented, childless women (like Theresa May) as well as making the political party fifty-fifty to a greater extent than gay-friendly than a Turkish sauna.
In the former days the Tory political party ever had plenty of gays, but these guys were "old schoolhouse gays," as well as ever kept things on the downwards low, although amongst plenty of scandals, which generated humorous sketches similar this one.
But instantly the Conservative Party is all close how wonderful, natural, as well as good for you lot gay people are, how it's actually fantastic that they are adopting kids as well as stuff, as well as how it's the best matter ever that they desire to hold out sentry masters as well as run the Church of England, etc., etc.
Because of such modernization as well as fast-tracking of gays inward the Party, equally many equally nineteen of the Conservative Party's 317 MPs are out-of-the-closet gays. In fact, Ruth Davidson, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, who made lots of gains patch the psyche political party suffered losses, is a good known "muffin consumer."
The occupation the Conservatives instantly confront is having to adjust the interests of two-diametrically opposed groups -- the hardline conservative Christians of the DUP as well as its ain "Gay Pride" wing.
With nineteen overtly gay MPs as well as in all likelihood a large number of "fellow travellers," the Conservative gay faction has plenty ability to either derail the regime at a fourth dimension of their choosing or to frustrate the demands of the DUP, which mightiness resultant inward them withdrawing their back upwards from the minority Conservative government, causing it to fall.
The existent occupation hither is non what gays create to each other inward their bedrooms, equally most sex, fifty-fifty betwixt heterosexuals, is pretty disgusting anyway (especially if you're doing it right). But only the fact that their perverted sexuality creates a group-within-a-group as well as a party-within-a-party that has its ain interests as well as agenda. This way that gays tin human activity equally an effective as well as destructive Fifth Column.
This, rather than prudery, is the existent argue why political parties should hold out extremely wary of encouraging or allowing gay cabals as well as enclaves inside their trunk politic.