Ex-Telegraph editor attacks “gay rights sharia”

The former of editor of The Telegraph has attacked the “gay rights sharia” for blocking out “traditional views of parenthood”.

In a piece for his former paper, Charles Moore addressed Sir Elton John’s boycott of Dolce & Gabbana following their comments on IVF and same-sex parents.

Moore argued that he had not seen anyone attempt to defend the designers, instead arguing that the public reaction had been designed to “silence debate”, instead of discussing opposing views.

“Why this extraordinary repression of traditional belief? Some of it is understandable revenge. If you have been persecuted for homosexuality or single parenthood or (you have to be pretty old for this to have happened) divorce, you may well want to get your own back,” he wrote.

However, Moore went on to claim that “there is more at work here”, singling out Buzzfeed’s LGBT editor Patrick Strudwick’s appearance on the BBC’s Today programme.

“What we were hearing – and it has snatched the microphone of homosexual life in the same unrepresentative way that Islamism has grabbed the public voice of Muslims – was the voice of a self-appointed moral policeman,” he said.

“If you are gay, Mr Strudwick seemed to assert, there are certain things you must believe. Nothing else is permitted under the gay rights sharia.”

He added: “We rightly attack female genital mutilation inflicted on young immigrant girls. Adult transgender mutilation is, of course, a free choice, but why should we be invited to celebrate it?”

Moore concluded by suggesting that the rights of “children are an afterthought”, before claiming that children raised by same sex parents are now part of a “growing online community” who “describe how difficult it was for them”.

“In particular, they talk of their innate desire, which their situation could not satisfy, for the real parent – father or mother, known or unknown – who was not there,” he said. “We shall hear a lot more of this, and we shall learn that the era of liberation was not always so good for those who never asked to be liberated.”

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