Image via Wikipedia Gay men in the modern Western world are accustomed to accusations a homoerotic orientation is seen as effeminate, sissyish. This is a complete myth, as is easily shown by the many counterexamples from the butch, bear and…
Tag Archive for Sexuality & Gender
AMA Condemns the Dangerous Heterosexual Perversion.
Well, not exactly – but they could just as well have done, as I will explain later. first, what they actually did say: “The nation’s largest doctors’ group has agreed to join efforts to repeal the military’s ‘don’t ask, don’t…
Finding God in Gay Lovemaking
“An Erotic Encounter With the Devine” is the title of a post by Eric L. Hays-Strom at Jesus in Love. (Eric has a Masters Degree in Catholic Life and Worship from St. Meinrad School of Theology). In his post, he has…
Catholic Church – Antigay, Antiwoman, Antisex?
Among the many fascinating commentaries on the Vatican outreach to Anglicans, the one that I have found the most thought –provoking I found in NCR online, by Jamie L Mason, who works as director of social justice ministries at Jan…
James Alison: Discovery of “Gay” = Good News For the Church
“Wherever the Catholic sun does shine, there’s love and laughter and red red wine at least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino*” – Hillaire Belloc. Not many people today would readily associate the above words with the modern Catholic…
Catholic Magisterium and Scripture
The problem with attempting to deal with the Magisterium of the Church is that it is so vast, that the only way to do it is as one would eat an elephant: one piece at a time. I propose to…
Coming Out as Spiritual Experience
Over 40 years since Stonewall, it has become commonplace to recognise the value of coming out as a growth experience, bringing benefits to mental health, self-esteem and personal integrity. Less widely recognised is the value of coming out as spiritual…
“Confirmed: God is slightly gay”- (Columnist Mark Morford)
Well, OK – not so much GOD, as Her/His creation: “Just ask the animals. As soon as they stop having all that homosexual sex” but for what that says about the Divinity, there may not be too much of a…
The Perversion of Heterosexuality.
Theologian Sally Gearhart has written: “Exclusive heterosexuality has to be understood as a perversion of [humanity's] natural state. We very quickly rob infants of their health and wholesomeness. We require them from birth to fall into one of two widely…
Jeremiah’s Return
Over at Gospel for Gays, Jeremiah has written of his own return to the Catholic Church. After being driven away originally in anger a the Canadian Bishops over their opposition to gay marriage he returned eventually after a discussion with…
