Rev Jane Fraser has described her journey as a female Anglican priest, in an article in CSCS News (Winter 2013), titled “Reflections on a ‘ministry in sex employment“. She explains that this rather odd description of her work arose when…
Sexuality & Gender
A Handy Guide to (Medieval) Sexual Sin
The simplest response to the regular claim that Catholic teaching is “constant and unchanging”, is this useful flowchart, based on the medieval penitentials, and originally published in Brundage’s book, Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe . We are all familiar…
Italian Bishop: Celebrate the Richness of (Sexual) Diversity!
There is now a steadily expanding list of Catholic cardinals and bishops who have expressed some measure of support, with varying degrees of enthusiasm, for some form of civil unions or other legal recognition of same - sex couples. There…
The Meaning of Sex (LTR) 7:
German Bishop Declares Support for Gay Civil Unions, Says Sexual Doctrines Must Change.
The bishop of Trier, Stephan Ackermann, is the latest Catholic bishop to acknowledge that while the Church cannot approve of gay marriage, it should accept the value of same - sex civil unions. As far as homosexual relationships were concerned,…
Major Religious Leader OKs Homosexuality, Gay Marriage
We must never forget that while the countries outside of Europe and Nothern America appear to be “behind” the rest of the world in LGBT equality, this is deceptive. It was the European missionaries and colonial authorities that introduced homophobia…
The Meaning of Sex (LTR) 6:
PRO - Gay Discrimination on Religious Grounds.
Legislators in some US states are arguing that “religious freedom” means that they should be entitled to practise discrimination against people they disapprove of, on grounds. of their Christian beliefs. By the same reasoning, those Christians who take seriously the…
“The Meaning of Sex Ch 3″ (LTCR) - Binary Opposites, or Diversity?
In discussing Chapter 3 of “On the Meaning of Sex“, Frank describes how it labours unsuccessfully to promote a cornerstone assumption that underpins so much conservative mythology of sex and gender: Chapter Three deals with “the meaning of sexual differences,”…
Theology Professor: Church Should Welcome Gay Couples (and Their Children)
Instead of focusing on questioning the sexual relationship, the Church must confront the problem inherent in the negative reactions, both religious and social, with which this issue is faced in the Church and in society. And also take the step…
