- It was, famously, the love that dared not speak its name.
Now the word "homosexual" is to disappear altogether as part
of a new government drive to promote equality in the workplace.
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- After complaints from groups that found the word offensive
and outdated, Barbara Roche, the Equalities minister, has decided it should
be replaced in forthcoming anti-discrimination legislation.
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- Draft regulations, which are certain to become law by
December 2003, instead use the phrase "orientation towards people
of the same sex" to define gays and lesbians. The new law will for
the first time make it illegal for an employer to discriminate against
an employee or prospective employee on the ground of sexuality.
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- The issue first arose when the minister asked for opinions
on her plans to protect people who were discriminated at work because of
their "homosexual, heterosexual or bisexual" nature. Gay lobby
groups, trade unions and others objected to the word "homosexual"
and called instead for a wider definition of "sexual orientation"
that would encompass every group in society.
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- Mrs Roche told The Independent: "It's not about
political correctness. You are actually making a statement that these issues
have moved on."
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- http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=355612
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- Comment
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- From Harry Mason
- orbitx@iinet.net.au
- 11-30-2
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- In response to my forwarded article on the recent banning
of the term Homosexual by the UK I have received the following gem from
my UK mate the Left Honourable Neville Chamberlain --
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- Harry,
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- If you think they have gone mad, then how about the use
of the word "SPADE.
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- In order to avoid any racial connotation, in the loony
left councils of East London, builders now have to refer to a SPADE as
a "non mechanical earth displacement facilitator".
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- Neville
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- I am also reminded of the politically correct jokes I
heard on my last visit to England where the new PC definition of woman
was "Person Without Willie"................
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- Harry
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