David Starkey: same-sex parenting ‘ludicrous’

David Starkey has hit out at same-sex parenting, describing gay men trying to raise children as “ludicrous”.

The controversial historian and television presenter – who previously said he was “torn” over the issues of same-sex marriage – made the comments in an interview with the Sunday Times over the weekend (June 14).

Asked whether anything could ever be “entirely good”, even the legalisation of homosexuality, Starkey replied:

“No, not at all. I think it’s largely destroyed homosexual creativity. We’ve just become boring. Now you get gay men running around trying to bring up children . . . ludicrous.

“One of the first things that saved me from becoming a boring Establishment old fart was that I knew what it was like to be moved on by a policeman.

“All that’s gone. You just fit into that absolutely standard undifferentiated metropolitan upper-middle class.”

The interview has also attracted national coverage after the 70-year-old compared the Scottish National Party (SNP) to the Nazis.

The former LSE professor – who most recently fronted David Starkey’s Magna Carta on BBC Two earlier this year – lives with his partner James in London and Kent.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph prior to the legalisation of equal marriage in England and Wales, he wrote: “I am torn. As an atheist gay who regards marriage as part of the baggage of heterosexual society which I have come to respect but can never fully share, I am tempted to say a plague on both your houses.”

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