Homosexuality wasn’t much on my radar at that time. Any fleeting thoughts I had about it were conventional, unreflective and negative. Without knowing very much about homosexuality, I was against it. It was a Bad Thing. What changed my mind…
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Gay Marriage Testimony: The Value of Gay Parents
Delaware and Minnesota hit the gay marriage headlines this week, but there’s also been important movement elsewhere. In Nevada, a House committee heard testimony in the long process to repeal of the constitutional ban. (The Senate has already approved a bill…
LGBT Christians Meeting with Bishops: UK, Nigeria, Kenya
There have been numerous reports over the last few days of Peter Tatchell’s meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby – which Tatchell described as “the first ever meeting between an international religious leader and a leading gay rights campaigner”.…
French Marriage and Family Equality By the Summer?
France has just become the second country this week to secure parliamentary approval for both marriage and family equality, resisting the arguments of Catholic bishops and extensive, sometimes violent, public protests. Also this week, on the same day (Thursday) two US…
Gay Kid Gets Catholic Bishop’s Agreement that “Disordered” Language is Harmful.
In Canada, objections by a Catholic student in a Catholic High School has resulted in a Catholic bishop removing a much reviled cornerstone of Catholic teaching on homosexuality, on “intrinsically disordered” from his school website. At Bondings 2.0, Francis DeBenardo…
American Academy of Pediatrics: Gay Marriage “In the Best Interests of the Children”
Opponents of gay marriage who argue they are simply thinking of the children, will have to think again. An American scientific study shows that same-sex marriage is in the best interests of children Opponents of marriage and family equality frequently protest…
Soho Masses, After Warwick Street: Letter to Archbishop Nichols
When the Soho Masses Community were preparing to move from Warwick Street, we invited our members to write to Archbishop Nichols, to express our thoughts on the move. I was one of those that did – and was delighted to…
Is Pope Benedict Gay? Should We Ask?
The blogosphere has been abuzz with speculation about Pope Emeritus Benedict’s sexual orientation. Is he gay? Andrew Sullivan made the claim directly, citing in evidence that his noted companion Georg Ganswein would continue to act as his secretary, and live…
How Gay Marriage Destroys Straight Families
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Soho Masses Community: The Next Phase Begins
Last night, the Soho Masses Community began the next phase of their growth as a prophetic, Eucharistic community, with the first Mass in which they begin their integration into the wider parish community at the Jesuit parish of The Immaculate…
