Talk:Kincora Boys' Home

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Eastern Health and Social Services Board

In response, the Eastern Health and Social Services Board decided to institute a policy of not employing homosexuals in any caring roles.

Can we get any citations for this ? How long did this "policy" remain in place ? Is it still in place ? How were "homosexuals" identified ? What happened to "homosexuals" (actual or suspected) who were already in such roles ? What of (actual or suspected) Bisexuals, Transvestite or Transgendered employees ? and finally was this policy not regarded as controversial ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.40.103.77 (talk) 11:06, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Regarded not as controversial but overzealous. The Department of Health overturned the policy. No statistics on dismissals but there were some. It created a chill factor even if scrapped.

Lack of sourcing - delete?

The article has been essentially unsourced for a long time, and contains negative material about living people. This is a problematic violation of our WP:BLP article. Is there any reason this should not be sent to AFD and deleted? In other words, is anyone going to write a sourced article really soon? GRBerry 05:11, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"McGrath's HOMOSEXUALITY"?

Mr. McGrath did not self-identify as gay, and never had a same-sex relationship with an adult. Also, equating "homosexuality" with sexual molestation of children of the same-sex is the repetition of an inaccurate and now-discredited statement. The overwhelming majority of pederasts(men who molest boys)identify as heterosexual in their sexual feelings towards adults. Consequently, I removed the biased and inaccurate reference to "homosexuality" in the main article. Ken Burch (talk) 09:39, 21 May 2009 (UTC)Ken Burch 09:40, 21 May 2009[reply]

To say McGrath did not have same sex relationships with adults is misleading, there is plenty of evidence he did indeed have adult same sex relationships. Have a look at Paul Foot's book Who Framed Colin Wallace. McGraths homosexuality was relevant because at the time of the offences against boys homosexuality was still illegal in Northern Ireland. It was directly relevant because people at the time who knew of McGraths homosexuality - and those people included Ian Paisley - also knew of the allegations that boys had been making at the home for years. This should have been enough to trigger an investigation by the authorities after the complaints. It was the lack of proper investigations of these allegations that led many to believe there was a cover-up. This is not a conflation of homosexuality with paedophilia in general. The overwhelming number of paedophiles may be heterosexual men but William McGrath was most certainly an example of a homosexual paedophile/pederast.

BFKate (talk) 11:32, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]