Apparently it was this that the key portion of the show that was reported to the police as a hate crime was the following:
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Stephen Nolan: Do you think for example that homosexuality is disgusting?
Iris Robinson: Absolutely
Stephen Nolan: Do you think that homosexuality should be loathed?
Iris Robinson: Absolutely
Stephen Nolan: Do you think it is right for people to have a physical disgust towards homosexuality?
Iris Robinson: Absolutely
Stephen Nolan: Does it make you nauseous?
Iris Robinson: Yes
Stephen Nolan: Do you think that it is something that is shamefully wicked and vile?
Iris Robinson: Yes, of course it is, it’s an abomination.
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So from this while she may be putting it out initially on a religous standpoint I am absolutely not religous in that sense yet I concur almost identically with the sentiments, perhaps she is only putting it out under the guise of religion in order to protect some people, how ever you should really be careful what you report to the police. To me those sentiments derive from some one who either knows a person or persons who have been, or has been themselves subjected to varying levels of sexual harrasment from one or more people of the same sex perhaps over a period of time. If that is the case then you cannot deny she is perfectly entitled to carry that opinion as would be anyone be entitled to carry similar opinions who has been subjected to this kind of crime or know varying friends who have suffered in that way.
It is for this reason and this reason alone that out comes the bigot card, not because the opinion is actually wrong but in defence of that community in general because without doing so they become on a wider basis a very vulnerable community.
A bigot can only be a bigot when they have no foundation for their own views and opinions and show a total lack of respect for others opinions. Until both this criteria is met they are not a bigot.
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bigot
/bigg t/
• noun a person who is prejudiced in their views and intolerant of the opinions of others.
 DERIVATIVES bigoted adjective bigotry noun.
 ORIGIN French.
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Now to open the eyes of those who have been fortunate enough to never have suffered such forms of harrasment at a sufficent level that it was unacceptable and anyone else who cares to learn from it.
When a person is sexually harrased to any level from another of the same sex and it was uncalled for or went further than it should have, which in this particilar form of harrasment really does not have to be that far at all for the target to become a victim, it does not stop at feeling bad about the actual event itself. The victim then has to make a conciensous decision, do they do something about it, most of the time no they dont, this is not because they dont feel they have the right to do so, this is because they do not wish to place themselves into the public spotlight and into the court rooms mainly for the sake of further personal embarrasment, having to relive the events etc etc.
However not doing something which most sexual predators are well aware of that most will get away with a crime that wont be reported for, the victim then also suffers for the rest of their days the torture of their own guilt that they did not do anything, that they know there are people out there who have probably also become victims and this is the fault of the victim as much as it is of the predator themselves. If as a sexual predator you did not know this then you do now, if as resepctable and civil being you did not know this then you do now, and when you scream and shout bigot, perhaps you should really consider if your reaction is truly justified. For those that are well aware of this and still commit the crime, you are truly the sickest of all and you know what actions you should take stop it.
Fact in respect of humanity, when making a pass at someone of the same sex you are potentially committing a crime of sexual harrasment regardless of the location or level you try to take it to, simply because of the very nature of the act your proposing.
In respect of the male side of the population when a male dog cant control its urges to hump the human reaction is often to remove certain body parts of that animal, you should consider yourselves lucky it is not that cut and dried (the pun is without doubt intentional) in regards to mankind. You should also be glad that there are many decent and respectable people out there who are prepared to carry your burdens with them to their grave, as in all honesty most of you probably do not deserve it, if it was not for them many of you would be where you should be and not walking among the general poulation.
So you can burn the likes of Iris Robinson in your flames as much as you like, the reality is while doing so you will be torching yourselves aswell.