The Sunday after Christmas is traditionally celebrated as the Feast of the Holy Family – an occasion which all too often is used in homilies as an excuse to commend the modern nuclear family – thereby leaving the substantial proportion…
Monthly Archives: December 2012
The Value of Visible Queer Families
Americans have “The New Normal”, Israelis have Ima and AbaZ (Mom and Dads) which is also about a gay couple raising a child with a single woman. An article at Queerty about the Israeli show (Israeli Television One-Ups “The New Normal” With…
Accelerating British Support for Equal Marriage, in Church
Three polls in the last 10 days have shown strong and rapidly expanding public support for marriage equality in law – including support for same – sex weddings in Anglican churches. The British opponents of marriage equality have been vociferous…
Gay Marriage, Brazil: Now Recognized in Sao Paulo
A judge in the Brazilian state of São Paulo has ruled that gay and lesbian couples in civil unions will no longer have to apply to the courts to have their relationships “upgraded” to marriage, effectively legalizing same-sex marriage in…
Let Us Remember, for Dec 27th
John the Evangelist, the “Disciple Jesus Loved” and recall that there was once at least one tradition of the Christian church, the bridal couple in the story of the Wedding Feat at Cana were said to be Jesus himself, and John,…
Catholic, CoE Bishops Diverge in Response to Gay Marriage Proposals.
In their submissions to the UK government consultation on equal marriage, Catholic and Anglican bishops both agreed – they were opposed. But now that the government has announced its firm intention to proceed, including provision for same- sex weddings in…
Let Us Remember, for St Stephen’s Day (Dec 26th)
Gay King Wenceslas, who famously “went out, on the feast of Stephen” with his faithful page, Podiven (who may have been rather more than that).
Born Today – Queer Icon, Jesus Christ
As the whole of the Christian world focuses today on the incarnation of Jesus Christ, I want to take a different tack. Instead of the familiar (and too often saccharine) focus on the nativity and a cute little infant in…
A Real – Life Christmas Miracle: 40th Anniversary.
Christmas should be a time to focus on the good news – including the “Good News” that is the origin of the word “Gospel”. Here’s some good news, to counter the depressing stuff coming from the Vatican and some other…
Let Us Remember, for Dec 24th
John Boswell, Catholic historian whose extensive research did so much to open up scholarship to renewed interest in both a re-evaluation of the biblical evidence on same – sex relationships, and to the previously hidden history of gay and lesbian people…
