So you have probably heard of the storm that Panti (Rory O'Neill) has caused with the Iona Institute over a comment he made about homophobia
“I bet every single person in this audience has a cousin or a neighbour or the guy who you work with who is a flaming queen! I mean, you all know one. And it’s very hard to hold prejudices against people when you actually know those people. Because Ireland is such small communities grouped together, everybody knows their local gay!
Maybe twenty years ago it was ok to be really mean about him, but nowadays it’s just not ok to be really mean about it.
The only place that you see it’s ok to be really horrible and mean about gays is on the internet in the comments and people who make a living writing opinion pieces for newspapers.”
When he was asked who made such comments Breda O’Brien and John Waters, as well as the Iona Institute were mentioned.
So he made a valid point as was silenced for it. Whatever happened to Free Speech?