Conservative peer Baroness Knight said that despite her opposition to gay marriage, she recognised that homosexuals had many talents.
Baroness Knight: Homosexuals are “very good at antiques”
Speaking to Nicky Campbell on BBC Radio 5 Live this morning, Conservative peer Baroness Knight said that despite her opposition to gay marriage, she recognised that homosexuals had many good qualities.
“We’ve all got friends who are homosexuals. They’re often extremely clever; very very good at artistic things; very good at things like antiques…”
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12 Responses to “Quote of the day: Homosexuals are ‘very good at antiques’”
Lucy Johnson
Vile
Tony Marcus
The good thing about this is that this sort of attitude seems to be dying out with this generation. She’s clearly unaware that she’s being intolerant, and seems like a well meaning person, just living in a world that took bigotry for granted.
Jim
We all know that antiques are what is important in life. Look at Baroness Knight, a great antique herself.
Goldguy
I am good at IKEA, so not sure how that works with antiques. Perhaps I’m not that gay after all???
ian
Conservative peers make very good bigots who are hell bent on tying to ensure that equality is made as hard as possible. I would also like to point out I do not have any friends who are bigoted peers.