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Continue reading about An Historic Night - Some Quick Thoughts
Over at the Covenant website, Nathan Humphrey has reposted an essay on Sacraments and Innovation. In it, as he explores whether a gay union can be blessed, he makes the following comments:
I would argue that marriage is valuable to the Church only insofar as it edifies the couple (and any children the couple is blessed [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading about What is the Goal of the Post-Gay Journey?
A fantastic piece on being a victim by Andrew Lilico
All of us are influenced by narratives, tales of why our lives are as they are, how other people will act in certain situations and how they will react if we behave thus-and-so. Religious people may adopt accounts of how they tempted into Sin, but how [...]
This post by Lisa Fox is causing a bit of a stir today. Apparently, shock-horror, it turns out that Bishop John-David Schofield of San Joaquin is a celibate homosexual and furiously traditional and orthodox in his theology. "Oh no", screams Lisa (to paraphrase - obviously). That means that he is a:
self-loathing person who attacks gay [...]
An interesting piece in the Telegraph yesterday about two elderly sisters who want to be able to have a Civil Partnership so they can leave their property to each other without paying tax. The only problem is of course that since they are very close blood relatives they can’t and, they cry, that’s unfair. The [...]
