Three years and some months ago, I linked to a post at Jesus in Love blog, a Paul Robson evisionist painting of Noah’s ark, featuring some very queer animal couples on board, and the reactionaries of Westboro Baptist Church flailing in…
Monthly Archives: June 2013
Equal Marriage Advances in House of Lords
The British House of Lords has just passed its first hurdle in the House of Lords, easily defeating, by more than two to one, a wrecking amendment which would have prevented it going to committee stage. Peers have voted by…
Joseph Gentilini and His Catholic Family
When I reached the stage of my life that I was ready to come out as gay, I was fortunate in the knowledge that I would not face the remotest risk of rejection by my family. By then into my…
Royal backing for gay marriage - 1624!
The British Marriage (Same - Sex Partners) bill is now making its way through the House of Lords. This letter to the Independent is timely, reminding us that the concept of same - sex marriage is not in fact a…
US Catholic Church and Boy Scouts: Discrimination is NOT Catholic Teaching.
A valued part of my childhood was my participation in the boy scouts movement, in a troop associated with my local Catholic parish. Every Friday night we met in the church hall, for which we paid in kink by spending…
