Sexual hypocrisy

What two (or more) people choose to get up to in their sexual lives is fine with me, so long as 1) it isn't costing me anything, 2) they are harming no-one but themselves, 3) they don't try and involve me. I don't go into gay or singles bars and I don't expect anyone to try and pick me up in my local. So when I first learned about Nigel Evans A senior Tory MP and a Commons Deputy Speaker coming out my first thoughts were so what?

Telegraph.

Nigel Evans, the deputy speaker of the House of Commons, has decided to "come out" in a newspaper interview because he wants to "clear the air".

The sexuality of the MP for Ribble Valley has long been the subject of speculation in Westminster, though he voted against lowering the homosexual age of consent to 18 in 1998.

It follows the announcement by Crispin Blunt, the Conservative justice minister, that he was leaving his wife of 20 years to come to terms with his homosexuality in August.

Mr Evans has never been married and does not have a long-term partner.

Fair enough, save for one small detail, "he voted against lowering the homosexual age of consent to 18 in 1998" So you know exactly where you will stand with Nigel Evans, he will as most MP's do, toe the party line even if it makes him a total hypocrite where it comes to equality of his own sexuality. And if he'll toe the party line on this, what else will he toe the party line on?
Hopefully this might clear the air for him and he'll adopt a more independent attitude, though again I have my doubts, most politicians don't, they vote for what the party wants rather than what their constituents want. Doesn't matter how many letters they get or how repulsive the political agenda, the lobby fodder are fed through the mill to produce the results, even if said results weren't in the manifesto, or even in Labours case if they were, but the leadership decided to ignore them anyway.

Not that Labour are saints when it comes to matters of homosexuality...

A Labour Party member bombarded a gay colleague with malicious text messages after losing out to him in a party election.

David Bradley sent rival Ed Bramall homophobic messages after members had selected Mr Bramall to fight a seat at this year’s local elections.

Bradley, who contested the Weston-super-Mare seat for Labour at this year’s General Election, sent 33 texts using references to homosexuals.

At Bristol Magistrates’ Court Bradley, of Warmley, Bristol pleaded guilty to a charge of harassment without violence by sending the text messages to Mr Bramall’s phone between March and August.

Yet to most of the UK save for a few religious or political extremists, we'll shrug our shoulders and think who gives a damn? Which shows we're less hypocritical than politicians at least, though that's not too hard.