The Right to Say “No”

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How to make your child a gay activist

Eve Tushnet has my kind of tongue-in-cheek style…

2. Let your kid think your love is conditional. Again, you don’t even have to say this out loud. Many kids just assume, unless they’re told differently, that they’ll only be loved if they do what you want.
Best of all, your child will guess that God’s love [...]

An example of how some don’t get it

David Virtue’s latest offering:

St. Rowan’s Letter to Canterbury
A Satirical Essay
1. Rowan called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God and our brother Sodomites. I say this because our brother Sosthenes died of HIV/AIDS last year. We spread his ashes over the Mediterranean, which promptly caused a health hazard in [...]

What is the Goal of the Post-Gay Journey?

Jay has some excellent pointers, and heterosexuality isn’t one of them!!!

Oh sure, accoding to them we’re not sinning by being content celibates, but we’re not whole either. We haven’t completed our "journey towards heterosexuality."
I got a little mad when I first read that, but then it saddened me. It saddened me to know that there [...]

My Whole Family…

Brilliant!!!

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The Final Lambeth Reflections Document

Thought it would be interesting to analyse where the final reflections document differs from the fourth draft.

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Fourth Draft
Final Document

This section should have been titled “The Bishop and Homosexuality” because it was quickly apparent the whole spectrum of human [...]

Lambeth Reflections - Fourth Draft

The fourth draft of the Lambeth Reflections document has been issued. This is the section on human sexuality. Comments are welcomed.

Section H: Human Sexuality
90. This section should have been titled “The Bishop and Homosexuality” because it was quickly apparent the whole spectrum of human sexuality, including issues of marriage and family, was not going to [...]

Closer to Home

Here’s the latest from Gene Robinson’s Blog:

Now, we’re off to Scotland. I will be preaching and celebrating at the Cathedral in Glasgow on Sunday morning. Scotland, the Dean/Provost is eager to tell me, is NOT England! If I didn’t believe that already, it was confirmed when he said he would not be able to meet [...]

Have we really abandoned the flock?

Susan Russell, Chair of Integrity got invited yesterday to write for the Guardian. Unfortunately, her piece is full of contradictions and false assumptions.

As the Lambeth conference proceeds in Canterbury, gay and lesbian Anglicans find themselves, once again, on the communion chopping block. It is a sad thing indeed that the message sent out from the [...]

You can’t make this stuff up

How can you so close your eyes to the clear words of the text? Matt Kennedy’s about to find out, questioning the man who helped write the Lambeth Bible Studies:

Me: I have a question for Dr. West. Would you say that the author of the NT book of Jude was incorrect when he wrote this [...]

What are acceptable sexual morals for a Christian Leader?

Let me ask you a question. Say I invited over to the UK one of the leading ex-gay speakers in the USA? What say, once we arrived we did a tour of theological colleges, sharing his story and asking the seminarians to support his ministry? I think we’d get a good reception (or at least [...]

So why *is* John Barrowman gay?

Well, as I wrote last week, The Making of Me attempted to find out. If you haven’t seen it yet, click on this link to watch it in the BBC iplayer.
What did I think? Well all in all it was very good and a brilliant introduction to the whole nature/nurture debate. If I had two [...]

Weird life of Peter cross-over moment

From Outpost Gallifrey

At 9pm BST tonight (Thursday), BBC One will air John Barrowman: The Making of Me, the first part of a series in which celebrities investigate the causes behind their "defining trait". In subsequent instalments, violinist Vanessa-Mae will investigate the roots of her musical talent, and sprinter Colin Jackson will investigate what makes him [...]

Brad Drell - TEC have lost any moral authority they had

Read it all here

The archbishop, known as an expert in the field of reconciliation said, “I am here talking to my brothers and sisters in America. We have experienced offense by their actions. I am not trying to offend them in return but tell them that I love them. We have had a painful experience [...]

Iris Robinson says one thing too far…

Last month, against a huge backlash from the GLBT lobby, I supported the right of Iris Robinson, wife of the First Minister of Northern Ireland to make certain remarks about homosexuality. At the time I wrote the following:

This is the problem that is now facing Christians. If we continue to hold to our antiquated views, [...]

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