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…
Gay Politics
Opponents’ Attempts to Weaken UK Equal Marriage Going Down – Heavily (Updated)
British opponents of the Marriage (Same – Sex Couples) Bill have seen the writing on the wall. Knowing that is going to become law, they tried to weaken it, by introducing a number of amendments, supposedly in the name of…
Purple States Supporting Marriage Equality – Include Virginia!
Earlier today, I described the results from a recent rash of polls showing that gay marriage now has clear and rapidly increasing majority support in the US not only nationally, and not only in the “deep blue” states, but also…
Republicans / Conservatives in Denial on Marriage Realities.
When Brian Brown of NOM is confronted with the mounting evidence of tide turning strongly in favour of marriage equality, his typical response is to insist that the recent victories have all been in “deep blue” states, so that there…
Londoners: “Your Pride Needs You!”
After last year’s fiasco, it’s great to know that this organisers are a strong team, realistic, focussed, and skilled. They have a very welcome emphasis on securing strong relationships with all community groups, and that very explicitly includes faith groups.…
Religious Freedom and LGBT Rights: London Meeting
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French Parliament Approves Equal Marriage. More Will Follow.
A week ago today, the British lower house approved the second reading of an equal marriage bill, sending it to the committee stage for clause by clause scrutiny. Across the channel, the French equivalent to our bill has already gone…
Catholic MP’s Back Gay Marriage
It’s now well known that in the USA, Catholic opinion has departed from the lead of the bishops on gay marriage: Catholics in general are more likely than other Christians, and as least as likely as the general population, to…
UK Breaking News : Equality Wins!
As expected, the vote for a second reading of the equal marriage legislation easily passed in the House of Commons a short while ago, by a vote of 400 to 175, with about 140 Conservative MPs voting against ( a…
Equal Marriage: A Letter to My MP, Jeremy Hunt
Archbishop Vincent Nichols, the leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, has urged Catholics to write to our members of parliament in opposition to British government plans for equal marriage legislation. I have a great deal of respect…
