>A Conservative councillor says that a ‘one sided’ approach to homophobic hate crime ‘needs to be looked into’.
>Girvan Councillor, Gavin Scott, made the comments during a report by Chief Superintendent, Raymond Higgins, of Police Scotland at South Ayrshire Council’s Service and Partnership Performance Panel.
>Cllr Scott asked the Ch Supt to elaborate on homophobic offences.
>He said: “Homophobic crime is in relation to people making comments in relation to people’s sexual orientation.”
>Cllr Scott responded: “That seems very one-sided. It gives me the impression that the straight person is in the wrong, although he has said nothing.
>“It tends to favour the homosexual.
>“Now I used to work for an airline, and the amount of times I was approached by the opposite sex, we would be here from now until eternity.
>“I only think it needs looking into. If you could do that for me, gentlemen, please.”
>Ayrshire Live contacted Cllr Scott to clarify the points he made at the meeting, asking him to expand on his argument that the situation was ‘one sided’ and why he had raised the point about being approached ‘by the opposite sex’.
>Cllr Scott said that he was researching the issue for clarification and suggested that Police Scotland may ‘find them useful and perhaps beneficial to them in a cost effective way’.
>The Girvan councillor also said that he would present his research findings to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.
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Based entirely on the headline, this might not be someone I see eye-to-eye with :\
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If it were possible for chatGPT to get drunk, this would be the result.
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Would he prefer they favours homophobes instead of homosexuals?
I can’t tell which direction this person is meant to be looking
Yes that is the point of laws, to favour the victim
[I’ll just leave this here](https://imgur.com/a/2WZ0RQ0)
>A Conservative councillor says that a ‘one sided’ approach to homophobic hate crime ‘needs to be looked into’.
>Girvan Councillor, Gavin Scott, made the comments during a report by Chief Superintendent, Raymond Higgins, of Police Scotland at South Ayrshire Council’s Service and Partnership Performance Panel.
>Cllr Scott asked the Ch Supt to elaborate on homophobic offences.
>He said: “Homophobic crime is in relation to people making comments in relation to people’s sexual orientation.”
>Cllr Scott responded: “That seems very one-sided. It gives me the impression that the straight person is in the wrong, although he has said nothing.
>“It tends to favour the homosexual.
>“Now I used to work for an airline, and the amount of times I was approached by the opposite sex, we would be here from now until eternity.
>“I only think it needs looking into. If you could do that for me, gentlemen, please.”
>Ayrshire Live contacted Cllr Scott to clarify the points he made at the meeting, asking him to expand on his argument that the situation was ‘one sided’ and why he had raised the point about being approached ‘by the opposite sex’.
>Cllr Scott said that he was researching the issue for clarification and suggested that Police Scotland may ‘find them useful and perhaps beneficial to them in a cost effective way’.
>The Girvan councillor also said that he would present his research findings to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.
Based entirely on the headline, this might not be someone I see eye-to-eye with :\
If it were possible for chatGPT to get drunk, this would be the result.