Bigots' Corner
Sep. 2nd, 2006 05:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
enitharmonFor those who have missed it, there is a storm in a teacup in the UK over the case of nine Glasgow firefighters disciplined for refusing to hand out fire prevention leaflets at the Pride Scotia event.
Now, firefighters aren't exactly noted for their towering intellects but they ought to have been aware of the crassness of their rather insulting behaviour. My own view is that in being required to attend diversity training, and in one case being demoted, they got off very lightly. They should have been sacked. Bigotry has no place in a civilised society.
What's worse, though, is the queue of pundits lining up to support them, including the Archbishop of Glasgow, Mario Conti (good Scots name that! Surely not a Vatican plant?). As various religious groups sound off their venom, frankly it's time we stopped paying any attention to them.
Now, firefighters aren't exactly noted for their towering intellects but they ought to have been aware of the crassness of their rather insulting behaviour. My own view is that in being required to attend diversity training, and in one case being demoted, they got off very lightly. They should have been sacked. Bigotry has no place in a civilised society.
What's worse, though, is the queue of pundits lining up to support them, including the Archbishop of Glasgow, Mario Conti (good Scots name that! Surely not a Vatican plant?). As various religious groups sound off their venom, frankly it's time we stopped paying any attention to them.
