Gay Pride events culminate this week (roughly from the last weekend in June to the first weekend in July, with today, 27 June being the actual anniversary). I have often wondered why the word Pride is used to mark the…
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Methodist Clergy: Gay Marriage Revolt Expands to New England
In Wiscinson last week, Lesbian minister in the UMC Amy DeLong paid the price for her courage in conducting a lesbian wedding in church some years ago: she was suspended from her ministry in the UMC - but for only…
New York Sixth State to Approve Gay Marriage in Win for Cuomo (Defeat for Archbishop Dolan)
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s bill to give gay couples the right to wed was approved by New York lawmakers, making the U.S. state the sixth and most-populous to legalize same-sex marriage. Spectators in the Senate gallery erupted in…
A Christian’s homophobic repentence | Green Wedge
People who are lesbian, gay or trans are constantly being told by some conservative Christians that we should repent of our sin. But where, precisely, is the sin in loving and committed homoerotic relationships? Claims that they are “plainly” prohibited…
U.N. Gay Rights Resolution: S Africa Leads (but also lags)
On Friday 17th June, the UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution Friday supporting equal rights for all, regardless of sexual orientation - the first time that the body has taken a clear stand on human rights as inclusive of LGBT…
Aquinas, “Nature” - and Sex.
Thomas Aquinas and Natural Law are often trotted out by the rule-book Catholics alongside the half-dozen clobber texts as a supposed justification for denying respect and equality to sexual minorities. I have absolutely no expertise in Thomist theology, but was…
Growing Methodist Defiance on Same-sex Marriage
On LGBT inclusion in church, the headlines over the past couple of years have been on gay clergy (Lutherans of the ELCA in 2009/2010, and the Presbyterian Church of USA, 2010/11). These decisions will increase the pressure on both denominations…
Gay Bishops for Church of England?
The Church of England continues its egg-dance over the appointment of openly gay, partnered bishops. They have twice suffered shame and ridicule over the nomination, then rejection, of Jeffery Johns, a man whom all parties seem to recognise as a…
Gay Unions: Small Victory in Liechtenstein: Voters Resist Church Pressure
This is a small victory, in a small country: but another black eye for the religious right and some Catholic groups, who fought it tooth and nail. (Without their opposition, it would not have gone to a referendum in the…
The Fruit of the Spirit, and the Well-rounded Character
Having prayed for the Spirit of God to fill our hearts and guide our lives, it’s time to take the message of Pentecost further. In fact, what I’d like to do is address an issue I’d been studying over the…
