Religious Left

by Rachel Charman Pinks News UK The deputy leader of Barking and Dagenham council has been cautioned by police after using homophobic language. Senior Labour councillor Liam Smith is said to have said to a political rival's mother 'shut up you f***ing fat dyke' and 'go back to the farmyard', reports the Evening Standard. Mr. Smith was cautioned by police after the matter was investigated as a hate crime. He was ordered write a letter of apology to Mrs. Connelly. Mrs. Connelly, however, told 24News.com that this apology was 'not worth the paper it's written on'. 'If he wanted to apologise he would have apologised the following day. 'This was only because the police said if he didn't sign the caution he would go to court.' full article As a side note, a commenter stated " Had senior Labour councillor Liam Smith said to a political rival's mother 'shut up you f***ing fat nigger' and 'go back to where you came from'he...

BBC News United Kingdom Stephen Price, 25, of Clydach near Abergavenny, claims he was bullied out of his job by Mair Jones, 40, because she made anti-homosexual taunts. He had told the hearing he was forced to quit as the assistant manager because of Ms Jones's non-stop comments about sex, which included calling him a "stupid poof" and telling other staff he "batted for the other side". But giving evidence on Wednesday, Ms Jones said she did not even know Mr Price was gay and denied driving him away from the centre. The tribunal heard that an internal church investigation had upheld claims of aggressive behaviour, foul language and bullying by Ms Jones, who had worked at the church centre for 10 years. But the Presbyterian Church of Wales failed to take any disciplinary action against her. full article