For many people, the words “gay theology”, or even more, “queer theology” sound like a contradiction in terms, but it has been around explicitly for some decades now – and implicitly, according to some theologians, from the very beginning, as…
Monthly Archives: August 2010
In Celebration: Rev Jane Spahr, “Lesbyterian”
With the widespread press attention to the gay and lesbian bishops in the Episcopalian church, the ECLA decision last year to recognize openly gay and lesbian clergy in committed and faithful relationships, and this summer’s decision (not yet ratified) by…
“Hungochani” – Homosexuality in Southern Africa: Book Review
For all the noise in the press about modern popular opposition to “homosexuality” as being supposedly foreign to African tradition, I know that this is simply not true. The records of early explorers and ethnographers have shown clearly that same-sex…
Housekeeping, Serendipities.
One of the dual joys and curses of the blogosphere is how finding one intriguing post can quickly lead, by a series of links, to any number of others, taking one along a multitude of paths which diverge, clash with…
What Gay Catholics Have Done: Memoir, Biography as Sacred Texts (Bibliography).
One of the tools we can use to negotiate the challenge of being authentically gay /lesbian /or otherwise queer is to understand what otehrs have done. Dugan McGuinley, in “Acts of Faith, Acts of Love” describes gay Catholic autobiographies as…
Adoption, UK: “Catholic Care” Agency Denied Equalities Exemption.
Here in the UK, equality under the law for the queer community is taken seriously. Although we do not yet have full gay marriage, the legal status of civil partnerships is virtually identical to that of civil marriage in all…
R.I. Catholics Support Gay Marriage – 2 to 1!
In New England, just two of the six states do not yet have marriage equality – Maine, where gay marriage was passed by the legislature before being disappointingly overturned, and Rhode Island. I would expect that to change next year,…
Some Divine Patrons of Queer Love
In Christian theology, we are told that we are made “in God’s image and likeness.” Taking a broader view across all religions, it is more accurate to say that humans make gods & goddesses in our image and likeness –…
Gay Marriage, Nepal.
Gay marriage in Nepal is back in the news, with the first same sex wedding in the country between foreigners ( Sanjay Shah, 42, a Briton from Leicester, and an Indian man who did not want to be identified). The government…
Marriage Equality for Luxembourg (But Not Yet).
Months ago, I wrote that Luxembourg had promised same sex marriage legislation before the summer recess – and the promise has been kept. A bill was introduced last week that will extend existing marriage regulations to same sex couples, and…
