Channel Four had a clip of a Gay Times interview with David Cameron, in which he was being asked about his MEPs sitting on their hands while one of their dodgy Eurogrouping allies were up to some of their gay-bashing antics. It was striking how all-over the place he was on this. DC may be devoid of any substance whatsoever, but one normally expects ( Read more... )

I happened to read some commentary in The Tablet(  -- no, really! )

I've seen several reports on this story about the Vatican's "helpful" intervention in the Anglicans' little local difficulties over the ordination of gay people and women, but none of them seemed to be taking Darth Pope's protestations that this is a move towards church unity in the least seriously.  Indeed, it looks like a bad faith (as it were) ( Read more... )

OK, I guess it's no particular surprise that social conservatives in different places are recycling the same pool of "ideas", but the similarities here seem rather striking: the "redefinition" canard, the "breeders and proxies" rationale, the "everyone is free get to married (... to someone of the opposite sex)" jibe, and most of all the faux- ( Read more... )