The Washington Post has a useful analysis of what it calls The GOP’s quiet evolution on gay rights. This has obvious and fundamental importance for gay politics and (marriage equality in particular) in the US. It has wider significance because…
Monthly Archives: February 2011
British Adoption Agency Seeking Gay Parents, Dispels Myths
A Welsh children’s charity, Barnardo’s, is actively seeking gay and lesbian prospective parents, in yet another demonstration that those in the know, the professional experts working in the field, recognize that parenting ability has nothing at all to do with…
All Dogs (and Rocks) Go To Heaven (?)
This is to good not to share. It seems that these two face each other across a street. Really? Apocryphal? Joke? I don’t know. Who cares? Enjoy.
Gay Activists Focus on Faith: No Monopoly for the “Religious Police”
Far too often, faith and LGBT sexuality are seen as polar opposites, necessarily in opposition. The result is that some people of faith see it as their religious duty to promote prejudice or even violence and murder, with tragic results…
Sexual Ethics, Social Statistics, and the Sensus Fideii
Formal Catholic teaching is clear: in developing moral norms, it is right that we consider the findings from social science and social statistics. On moral norms around sexuality, however, the Vatican simply ignores its own guidelines. Whenever I refer to the…
