PinkNews.co.uk made the news on Friday. Once again this was due to our coverage of Ruth Kelly, the devout Catholic (Opus Dei member) Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and Cabinet Minister for Women and Equality.
Unusually for us, it was due to an error. We falsely claimed that Ruth Kelly had aged by six years since she was appointed Minister for Equality.
Of course she hasn't actually aged, she just looks older following cabinet battles over the rights of gay couples to adopt.
Here's an extract from the Independent.
Ruth Kelly's prickly relationship with the gay lobby is becoming a tad personal. The Catholic Secretary of State for Communities - the minister responsible for equality - has been a target for gay rights campaigners ever since she refused to say whether or not she thought that homosexuality was a sin. Then last week she was slap-bang in the middle of the Cabinet's gay adoption row.
Gay affairs website Pink News has upped the ante by claiming in an article about Kelly that she is 44 - a grave insult, since Kelly insists she's a supple 38. "Read into it what you will!" laughs a Pink News source.
Says a Labour official in Bolton, where Kelly is MP: "Ruth appears to have aged a bit but, come on, she's had a horrible few weeks. She really is 38."
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