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— Mon, Jan 22, 2007 —
Scotland Seeks More Gay Wooders
Catholics Burning Up Mad

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Here's the perfect job for the flannel loving homo: working for Scotland's Forestry Commission. The wood-loving organization's launched a campaign to recruit gay, lesbian and transgender lumberjacks and create a more diverse work environment. Of the move, a SFC spokesperson says:

We want to make the workforce as diverse as possible, to develop a diversity strategy for the whole of the organization.

It may be that people have resisted change over the years and the job of the diversity manager will be to spread the message that diversity will bring benefits to all levels of the organization.

Gay groups have lauded the campaign, but, not surprisingly, religious leaders aren't so keen on the idea. Calling the push "social engineering", a tradition-loving spokesperson said:
This is nothing more than state sponsored indoctrination. The ideologues behind diversity schemes like this should realize true diversity is realizing not everyone agrees with gay relationships.
We're pretty sure they're aware, doll face. They just don't care.

It's worth noting, we think, that our source article opens, "Forestry bosses are echoing the famous Monty Python sketch about a cross-dressing lumberjack." Are we the only ones who find that a bit distasteful?

(As for the accompanying image, it's from a an artist named Marco Fransen. He's from The Netherlands and describes himself as a "straight acting gay man". Hmmm, we're not sure how we feel about that, but we like his "art" (read: drawings and pictures of scantily clad and/or naked men. See for yourself here.)

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