Senior Partner in Gay Pride rant
26 June 2009
An email from the senior partner of a London law firm to the Law Society ranting about the promotion of homosexuality was leaked this week.

The partner emailed the Society after it issued a press release calling on lawyers to celebrate Gay Pride. He said that he had read the release “with horror”, and launched into an impressive rant about how disgraceful it was that so many organisations “seem to have been hijacked by the gays". 

He also claimed the Society has no mandate to promote diversity. “What on earth is going to happen next? Is someone at the Law Society going to tell all solicitors that they must promote to all their male heterosexual staff that they should trying becoming [sic] gay or bisexual or transvestites" he shrieked, hurling his handbag to the floor in disgust.

There's always one...

Check out the entire rant here. Including his slightly baffling claim that the Society should respect the fact that the majority of people “want to bring up their children as normal bisexual people as nature intended”. Really?

A spokeswoman for the Society said "We are dismayed by views like this... The Law Society added sexual orientation to its code of practice in 1995 with a view to tackling discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Its guidance in response to the solicitors Anti-Discrimination Rules 2004 moved beyond the stipulations of the rules to encourage the profession to extend notions of equality and diversity in the widest social context."