A Scottish candidate for the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) running in a local council election has compared being gay to her own admitted “sexual attraction to gorillas.”
84-year-old Gisella Allen made the comments in two jaw-dropping – and apparently real – interviews with the Scotland Herald and the Clydebank Post in which she explained her belief that gay people should keep their sexuality secret.
She said: “I am not anti-gay – but how can you call that a community? Sex life is everybody’s private affair. You do not come out and declare openly.
“Do you think I am going all over the city and saying my idea of a sexually-attractive creature is a gorilla?
“When I go to a zoo and I see a gorilla my hormones go absolutely crazy. I find a gorilla very attractive.”
As well as apparently abolishing openly same-sex love, if Gisella is elected to the Glasgow Council on May 4 she also wants a ban on plastic bags, golf courses, old age pensioners’ bus passes, mothers going to work, and sex education in schools, according to the interview.
Allen said that she supports bringing back the death penalty, and she prefers the use of the guillotine over hanging.
“I want the death penalty to be re-enacted. It doesn’t necessarily have to be hanging. You could have the guillotine. I think the public is entitled to protection,” she said.
Spokespeople for the party have responded that Allen’s “outlandish” views are her own personal opinions and not party policy, either locally or nationally.
So this woman thinks that being gay is just about who we are predisposed to have sex with? That’s our only contribution to society?
Maybe all the gay people in Scotland should go on a strike and stay home from work one day…the hairdressers, the artists, the interior designers…as well as the plumbers, the genuinely friendly store clerks, the doctors who are more gentle and compassionate than the straight doctors and sit by your beside longer when you’re dying, and the gay priests who don’t mind at all attending a gathering of old ladies hosting a “tea” and listening to the stories about their grandchildren when the other priests are out playing golf..
Somebody please inform this politician that nature puts us here for a reason (you don’t believe me? You don’t think nature makes gay babies to cut down on the aggression of straight men who take us into wars every thirty years and 50 million people die?) There will always gay babies. And because of that, there will always be gay people making a contribution to society, even though your religions call us some of the most vile names.
But of course all that may soon change because society having made gay marriage legal, it will soon be the norm for gay people to always be checking their watches and phones, always in a hurry to pick up their children at school and get home to their spouses for dinner, whereas before we had all the time in the world to help make the world a better place because, let’s face it, nobody wanted us to be who we were and certainly nobody wanted us to love who we love.
And when this woman comes to the end of her life and maybe dementia sadly sets in and she starts to talk more about her love of gorillas, there might be an empty chair in front of here whereas before it was her gay son, or her gay doctor, or her gay attorney that would have been there for her. And trust me, in those moments before she meets God she’ll forget about all her horse nonsense of wanting to put gay people back in the closet…and she’ll be saying to herself, if only I had a nice, warmhearted gay person to show me some compassion. And at the last second, she might get her wish because the gay doctor might sneak into the hospital room with his husband and his children, and hold her hand in the last moments of her life so she doesn’t pass away alone. Because he won’t be keeping his life a secret anymore. Wouldn’t that be nice?