Stonewall risks all it has fought for in accusing those who disagree with it of hate speech

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@SciFiSam

In the UK, there’s a major one - gay marriage. Back in 2004, we compromised on civil partnerships with nearly all of the same rights as marriage. They are legally-recognised spousal relationships with a legal ceremony presided over by an officiant, nothing to do with common law spouses.

UK history is full of compromises; that’s why we never had a revolution, and still have a monarch. In the US slavery was only abolished after a bloody war, in the UK they got parliament to vote for it by bribing the slave owners with compensation for their lost ‘property’.

But now, rather than compromise they want to do this the American way, as described in another thread:

@Velocity

The bigger picture is that, when one gets down to it, politics is fundamentally about two groups of people trying to impose an outcome that they know is unacceptable to the opposing side.

It’s not just this one issue, but adopting the same self-righteous, dismissive, uncompromising attitude as Stonewall displayed has left Labour all but unelectable.