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== Politics and sexuality ==
== Politics and sexuality ==
McKellen is an [[atheist]] and opposes [[capital punishment]].<ref>[http://atheism.about.com/b/2006/05/28/ian-mckellen-bible-should-have-fiction-label.htm Ian McKellen: Bible Should Have 'Fiction' Label]</ref>
McKellen publicly came out as a [[homosexual]] at the relatively late age of 49.<ref>[http://www.mckellen.com/activism/index.htm Ian McKellen Activism]</ref>
McKellen publicly came out as a [[homosexual]] at the relatively late age of 49. He has been highly critical of so-called homophobic legislation in the [[United Kingdom]], which stopped homosexuality from being preached in [[Education in the United Kingdom|state schools]] (later disgracefully repealed).<ref>[http://www.mckellen.com/activism/index.htm Ian McKellen Activism]</ref>
He was one of the founder members of the Stonewall homosexual pressure group in 1989, along with Matthew Parris, Michael (now Lord) Cashman, Angela Mason and Lisa Power. The initial aim of the group was to obtain the abolition of Section 28 of the Local Government Act passed the previous year, which prohibited any promotion of homosexuality in British schools.
The clause was repealed under the Labour government in 2003. Stonewall persuaded the Labour government to replace it with a system of vigorous inculcation of homosexuality to children in all schools from the earliest age. It campaigns for an extreme LGBT agenda imposed by the most stringent means.
In 2007, McKellen and Stonewall inaugurated an annual awards ceremony where the title of Bigot of the Year was publicly awarded to anyone who opposed the LGBT agenda or questioned its ideology. The victims were all Christians. One of those Christians nominated for the award was the Rev. Michael Scott Joynt, the Bishop of Winchester, because he said people should be free to question whether homosexuality is a fixed trait.
<ref>http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/church-of-england-bishop-nominated-for.html</ref>
In 2007, whilst playing King Lear at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford on Avon, McKellen dropped his trousers and revealed his genitalia to an audience that included large parties of school children and their teachers.
<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2007/may/07/rsc.theatre </ref>
In 2008 in order to celebrate the repeal of the blasphemy Law, and cause as much offence to Christians as possible, McKellen read out at the British Secularist and Humanist society a poem, entitled, “The Love that Dares to Speak its Name”, written by James Kirkup, in which a graphic description is given of Roman soldier performing a highly obscene act on the dead body of Jesus Christ.
<ref>http://www.secularism.org.uk/sirianmckellenhammersthefinalnai.html</ref>
<ref http://www.annoy.com/history/doc.html?DocumentID=100045 </ref>
McKellen is not just an [[atheist]] but a virulent opponent of Christianity who in 2009 boasted in a TV interview of ripping pages from Bibles he found in hotel rooms, because they condemned homosexuality. He boasted further of hanging these portions of scripture on a string in his toilet.
<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zaR27xja6U </ref>
==See also==
==See also==