At Religion Dispatches Magazine, Louis A. Ruprecht makes an important point: One of the more striking things about all of the ink that has been spilled over California’s now- infamous Proposition 8, and its long legal aftermath, is the almost reflexive…
Monthly Archives: August 2010
The Queer Lesson of Nehemiah: “Rebuild God’s Church!”
Through the fog of millenia, foreign language, and unfamiliar cultural contexts, it is easy for Christians in the twenty first century to miss the specific relevance of some passages in Scripture, especially the books of the “minor prophets” in the…
James Alison Book Launch: “Broken Hearts and New Creation”
On Tuesday of last week, I had the privilege of attending the launch of theologian James Alison’s new book “Broken Hearts and New Creation”. I have known James since I first starting attending the London Soho gay Masses, where he…
The Fallacy of the Church Push Against Gay Adoption
In Australia, the New South Wales parliament has a bill before it which would legalise gay adoption. The churches are outraged, and pushing hard against the measure, or asking for special treatment. One Australian church agency is asking for exemption …
Natural Law, Natural Sex, Natural Families.
A favourite argument used by the religious right against homoerotic relationships, and by the Vatican theologians against any form of sexual expression outside of marriage and not open to making babies, is that such sexual activities are “against nature”, and…
Paul Abels (August 4, 1937 - March 12, 1992): Modern Gay Martyr?
A striking feature of LGBT Church history, is how after a long period of invisibility, in the years following Stonewall, gay clergy followed other gay men and lesbians in coming out of their closets. Facing the prospect of so much…
The Other Court Victory: Mexico City
As gays, lesbians and progressive allies across the US and the world celebrated the sweeping court judgement on Prop 8 this week, another important American court victory may have passed them by - but this was “America” as in North…
What (European) Catholics Believe.
The Economist this week has an excellent analysis of the state of the Catholic Church in Europe . Headlined ”The Void Within“,it argues that the church is “hollowing out” at it’s centre. It’s not a flattering picture, but is worth…
Take Back the Church
Is it time to “take back the Church” from the bishops? From Jayden Cameron at Gay Mystic, summarising the five key points in a new book - “Talking Treason in Church: (The Lay Person’s Guide to Renewing the Catholic Church)“.…
The Story of the Queer Saints & Martyrs (Synopsis)
Prequel: Before Christianity Studies of the animal kingdom, and of non-Western and pre-industrial societies show clearly that there is no single “natural” form for either human or animal sexuality. Homosexual activity has been described by science for all divisions of…
