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| Who is the DUP? A brief history of UK parliament’s new kingmaker |
| 2017-06-10 |
| [RT] The Conservatives and the DUP won’t form a formal coalition government but the latter will support the government regardless. "We want there to be a government. We have worked well with May. The alternative is intolerable. For as long as Corbyn leads Labour, we will ensure there’s a Tory PM," a DUP source was cited as saying in by the Guardian. The party is the creation of firebrand ... firebrandsare noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... Protestant Evangelical Minister Ian Paisley. Reverend Paisley also founded the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster and was characterized by his entrenched Unionist views and his hostile opposition to the Catholic Church. In its early years, the party was heavily involved in a campaign against homosexuality and fiercely opposed gay rights. Paisley, who was famed for his extraordinarily fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... speeches, routinely preached against homosexuality and the party picketed gay rights events as part of their ’Save Ulster from Sodomy’ campaign. The campaign was ultimately unsuccessful as homosexuality was decriminalized in 1982. |
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