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Wed Dec-03-08 10:31 AM
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In Belfast, DUP MP Iris Robinson stirs up some familiar hatred...

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From the Belfast Telegraph...

Police probe over Iris Robinson's gay remarks
Complaints lead to serious crime branch inquiry

By Deborah McAleese
Wednesday, 3 December 2008

Officers from the PSNI’s serious crime branch are carrying out interviews as part of an investigation into DUP MP Iris Robinson’s controversial remarks over homosexuality, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal.

The First Minister's wife caused a storm when she told the House of Commons, during a debate on the assessment and management of sex offenders, that “there can be no viler act, apart from homosexuality and sodomy, than sexually abusing innocent children”.

Her comments were made just days after she told a radio programme that homosexuality was an abomination and that gay people could be “cured”...

MORE at http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/police-probe-over-iris-robinsons-gay-remarks-14090262.html

Well, at least we know that hating gays is an issue that seems to bring folks together, the world over. :puke:

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