Iris Robinson, a member
of the U.K. parliament from Northern Ireland, will not face
discipline after people filed complaints with police over
remarks she made about homosexuality on the air, according to
BBC News.
Robinson described gay
people as "disgusting, loathsome, shamefully wicked, and
vile" on a BBC radio show in June 2008. The Public
Prosecution Service announced that it would not further
investigate the case, because Robinson did not commit an actual
crime.
Eighty complaints were
logged with police after she made the comments, according to
London's
The Guardian
newspaper.
Robinson, who is the
chair of a government health committee, added that gays can be
"cured" by psychotherapy.
"I have a very
lovely psychiatrist who works with me in my offices and his
Christian background is that he tries to help homosexuals --
trying to turn away from what they are engaged in," she
said on the show. "I'm happy to put any homosexual in
touch with this gentleman and I have met people who have turned
around and become heterosexuals."