“We need to protect our children from the advertising of food products which are high in sugar, fats or salts. This will help parents in their task of raising our children well.�?
So said Eamon Ryan in his speech to the Green Party Conference today.
Our hostess Liz when reading this out to me said ‘Great – keep them healthy but don’t let them have rights under flakey civil partnership laws (hard to believe that Green Party goings on get followed so closely over in London they’ll be thinking they’ve really made it!!)
I’ll say it now before the Green’s bombard the comments – The Heads of the Civil Partnership/Cohabitant Rights Bill if not the 200 pages themselves are due soon and the Green Party say that the rights of children already being parented are going to be included.
Interesting to note that there was a workshop on Blogging and New Media today at the conference. I expect loads of comments and new blogs from party members spinning their part in government shortly! Mick what did you teach them??
“the Green Party say that the rights of children already being parented are going to be included.”
So – some gay couples will have the right to apply to adopt and others won’t?
This is crazy! Talk about complicating things and creating not just 2 tier citizenship but 3 tier citizenship
This is an absolutely disgusting proposal – The Green Party should be well and truly ahsamed if they are going to create an apartheid of gay parenthood!
Thanks for that Ian.
The Greens fell into a great big hole of their own making when they promised gay marriage in the election, but then had to back-peddle as part of ‘their mating ritual’ with Fianna Fail.Since then – on this blog and elsewhere – they’ve been trying to dig their way out by excuses and constant re-announcements that the legislation is coming.It’s sick-making that they have jumped on this bandwagon.
Your point is an interesting one; but isn’t it more than sexual apartheid (a term coined by Peter Tatchell). I would have thought the idea is unconstitutional to discriminate against certain children… aren’t all children ‘equally cherished’? And wouldn’t that sink the whole (Heads of a) Bill, if framed in this way & passed by the Dail?
Well, the Greens clearly missed reading about this study: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/apr/13/children.health