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Boston cops must defer to transgender crooks

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Criminals just got more rights in the city of Boston – at least, those who identify as transgender . According to new regulations, officers of the Boston Police Department must use a transgender suspect's preferred first name, find out whether the person likes to be called “he” or “she,” allow him to choose whether male or female officers perform his frisking, and give any transgender inmate a private ride to and from court. New BPD rules say police must use the name anyone who is arrested prefers, “even if the individual has not received legal recognition of the adopted name.” Policemen must also “respectfully ask the individual” when they are “uncertain about which pronouns are appropriate.” All friskings will be performed by two members of the sex the transsexual chooses, if at all possible. Officer Javier Pagan, the Boston Police Department’s liaison to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities, said their policies are similar to rules in effect in W

Catholic Labor MP's Experience equals homosexual ignorance

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A Labour Party Member of Parliament who said that she voted for the government’s “gay marriage” despite her Catholic faith , “seems to be suffering from the modern disease of terminal non-judgmentalism,” said one of the country’s top advocates of traditional marriage today. “This is not surprising, considering the way in which the dictatorship of relativism has not been resisted in many Catholic homes, schools and churches,” added Anthony Ozimic, communications manager for the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), who have been leading a national campaign against the bill. Catherine McKinnell Catherine McKinnell, MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North ,  said during debate  on the bill in the Commons that she was speaking not as someone who believes “strongly that either side of the argument is absolutely right, but because I can see both sides.” She said that her views were “inextricably bound” to her “experience,” and that though she had struggled with the requi