Theresa May the champion of equal rights? Not likely.

So one of David Camerons first acts as Prime Minister was to announce the appointment of Theresa May to the position of Home Secretary AND Minister for Women and Equality. May is of course vastly qualified for the latter of the roles, what with her being one of the rare female ministers within the Con-Dem government but the problem occurs over her secondary role as minister for equality. Whilst in opposition this woman has shown time and time again that she is massively against homosexuality.

Her voting record speaks for itself. She voted against repealing section 28 of the Local Governement act of 1988 which was a dickensian law designed to make it so that any mention of homosexuality in the classroom must be done in a way which made out that being gay was wrong. "Section 28 thus prohibited local councils from distributing any material, whether plays, leaflets, books, etc, that portrayed gay relationships as anything other than abnormal" Although May wasn't the only tory who voted against appealing this outdated legislation, in fact David Cameron went as far as to accuse Tony Blair being "Anti-family" and of "Wanting the promotion of homosexuality in schools." In fact the problem of whether to reppeal this law split the conservatives so much that the then leader William Hague even sacked his own front bencher Shaun Woodwood for refusing to vote with the party. Well known gay Conservative MP Ivan Massow even defected to Labour in responce to his parties continued support of section 28. Not the tories finest hour.

Anyway i digress, Theresa May's voting record speaks for itself. She voted against giving gay couples the right to adopt, along with voting against lowering the age of consent for gay couples to the same age at heterosexual couples and finally she voted against the human embyology and fertilisation bill which would have given lesbian couples the right to have IVF treatment.

Giving Theresa May the job of equalities minister is like making Enoch Powell your Minister for Immigration. In essence its a joke and i wander how long it will be before the homophobic principles of the Conservatives come to the fore again. Ironically shes replacing Chris "Hotel owners should be able to turn away gays in the feel like it" Grayling. New Politics? I doubt it.