Oh well, the DUP are no strangers to double standards!

I think someone needs to come out out that musty closet!
Blow that whistle boy! be proud!

headline is misleading as usual….he finds the behaviour repugnant, not gays…..
I’m not standing up for him of course. He just obviously finds it difficult to control himself when he see hunky gay men dressed in leather shorts with angel wings on a sunny afternoon

Hi Danny, the headline wasn’t intended to be misleading. However for clarity I have amended the headline.
Thanks for the comment.

First sentence is now misleading for the same reasons.

Hardly surprising from the DUP really is it. Several of their members and politicians have expressed similar opinions in the past. They are hardly socially liberal.

Backward regressive politician in ‘phobic comment shocker – there’s a turn up for the books! These people inky like sexuality that us confined to affairs and/or self loathing – in keeping with their generally hate fuelled outlook on life.

Well didn’t Iris Robinson preach hatred of gays for decades cos her bible told her that it was wrong, yet when she got caught committing adultery, suddenly her bible wasn’t so important cos her bible’s punishment for adultery is the same as the punishment for male homosexuality. With or without religion you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things; but for good people to do evil things, it requires religion.

I agree and found the behavior in Dublin pride something to be forgotten. I am proud of my gay friends but some of the lark was just far too over the top and miles away from anything flamboyant but to those who are proud and less repugnant :) I take my hat off to you.

Wasn’t King William of Orange gay ?

Gay people have been shunned from their communities , bullied and driven to suicide , how could a loving G-D support inflicting ​ such pain on anyone. That is not true faith , true loving others as yourself . If you are disgusted by the idea of yourself having a relationship with a member of the same sex , that is your issue and fair enough you don’t have to enforce your own personal preference on any one else . I can assure you that homosexuality will never be mandatory so really should have no effect on your life whatsoever . So why don’t you start focusing on your own relationship and take your nose out of mine .

I wonder what his views are on the behaviour of some orange marchers?

This year will be my third year taking part in the Belfast Pride Parade … and if Mr Wells finds my walking along the streets of Belfast in a cross-community and INCLUSIVE parade which celebrates one aspect of the Almighty’s creation repugnant …. then presumably he finds that other big parade in July which is anything but cross-community and inclusive equally repugnant?

And @Elrat – the answer is YES!!!!

Jim Wells is not the Health Minister. Edwin Poots is.

It’s too early for me to function. I have since read the article in full and noticed all the references to ‘future’. Wide awake and alert, starting from…

Closet Case me thinks

I think the Gay pride parade should be led by a fife and drum band, all participants should wear black suits with a pink sash, and they should not dance, they should march. Order must be kept on the streets, we all know that.

What is the need for Gay pride marches anyway? I don`t get it.
I have red hair, and when GingerFest was being spoken about people were saying its unfair to gingers to have a fest with people arriving with fake red hair wigs. Is it not unfair to LGBT to segregate them in a parade?

I`m not homophobic BUT…….

Ha Ha got you there…….

That any Parliamentary member in the UK nowadays should be comfortable articulating such a narrow view is disappointing.

For feck sake – live and let live. God made no mistakes that’s wot I say :-)

I’m not gay but I do enjoy going into Dublin city centre on pride parade day just to see the colour and festivities, everyone always look like they’re having a blast and a great buzz about the place. Funnily enough couldn’t tell you the last time I went to the Paddy’s day parade cos of “repugnant” behaviour ( even though it always looks great on TV and I like a drink and the craic) – I think that says a lot!!

A simple “thanks but no thanks” to the invitation to attend the gay pride parade would probably have sufficed without using the word “repugnant”. Even if he has some prejudice against gay people, he should have kept it to himself. His opinion probably means very little to gay people anyway. As Simon Rea said “politicians need to realise 7 – 10 per cent of their constituencies are lesbian, gay, or bisexual”. I wonder if he would find it so repugnant if gay people voted for him…..somehow i doubt it. Well maybe now after these comments, he won’t have to worry about that.

Good point, Alan. It seems that politicians are prone to foot in mouth disease. If half of these idiots kept their mouth shut or at least put their brain in gear before engaging their mouths then maybe we would actually have more respect for them.

I wonder if this is his way of saying he is not running in the next election. If he is, he had better hope gay people have short memories.

Well now, If I lived in Belfast I think I’d rather have a load of camp gays and lesbians marching down my street dancing and singing along their merry way, than a load of triumphalist sectarian thugs.

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