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Gay News: Historian David Starkey has criticised a "new tyranny" directed at Christians with anti-gay views
David Starkey
David Starkey warns of "new tyranny"
Referring to the case of two Christians barred from fostering because of their religious objection to homosexuality, Starkey - who is gay and an atheist - warned on the BBC’s Question Time of a “tyrannous new morality… as oppressive as the old.”
He also criticised the fine handed out to the Christian couple who refused two gay men a double room in their hotel Cornwall.
According to Starkey, the “sensible” course of action would have been for the hoteliers to put up as sign in their hotel saying that they did not welcome gay couples because of their Christian beliefs.
He also spoke of his Christian mother who passionately hated and opposed his homosexuality, and claimed that this hatred and opposition had made him the person he is today.
“Being nice and sweet about gays isn’t wholly a good thing,” he went on. “We live in a world of intense difficulty and plurality and just having a hand-me-down, reach-me-down, off-the-hanger imposed morality is a very bad idea.”
