From Dalek sex to religious memoir via portentous bigotry

[erudito]

Dalek P or n - via, of course, spark_au.

If you are willing to step foot inside a Starbucks™, take up the fair trade challenge.

Adam Baldwin, [as he stars in] Serenity star. Jake Andrews, entirely different sort of star (not work safe [new worksafe version, click 'muscle']).

Good news on the HIV front.

Apparently, Star Wars has provided part of the

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[claidheamhmor]

BTW, thought you might find these links interesting:

Constitutional Court rules in favour of gay marriage
A year's too long to wait, say gay groups

Ta

[erudito]

Yes, was interested, ta.

How do you do your links so they open up a new window?

Re: Ta

[claidheamhmor]

My sister and her girlfriend will be delighted! They're currently in the process for trying to adopt.

For the links, I did them in Semagic, and when creating the link, ticked the "Make the link open in a new window" box, which basically adds a target="_blank" to the link. So the link for the first entry in HTML reads:

(a href="http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=qw1133427421929B252" target="_blank")Constitutional Court rules in favour of gay marriage(/a)

(I changed angle brackets to parentheses).

Re: Ta

[erudito]

Ta

[sjkasabi]

Hmm. Adam Baldwin is definitely cute, but that is probably because those pictures are not of him, they are of his character, Jayne. Who is definitely cute. I'm all about the character.

The other guy... well, I'm not getting much sense of character from him ;-)

Of course

[erudito]

well, I'm not getting much sense of character from him ;-)
Possibly because he is more of a grunt figure ...

God vs Gays

[catsidhe]

Actually, I thought that a large part of the whole 'no gay priests' thing might be an overreaction.

Sure, Benny put out the word that 'practising gays' are not to be admitted to the priesthood, but aren't practising heterosexuals likewise admonished? The whole point of celibacy, and all that.

The admonitions agains 'gay culture' are a little more worrying, though. And there is always the 'rainbow sash' and their fruitless attempts to gain access to the Mass in case anyone is tempted to think of the RCC as a bastion of enlightenment.

Re: God vs Gays

[erudito]

In the Vatican document cited above it says that the Church
may not admit to the seminary and Holy Orders those who practice homosexuality, show profoundly deep-rooted homosexual tendencies, or support the so-called gay culture.
The first criteria is, indeed, just celibacy, which applies to every candidate for the Catholic priesthood. The last criteria is essentially a requirement to be alienated from public affirmations of homosexuals are folks too. Objectionable, but does follow from the view that homosexual acts are unnatural and a moral crime. The middle criteria quite simply bans homosexuals from being candidates to the priesthood. So I don't think folk are over-reacting when they take it to be a ban on (new) gay priests, because it clearly is.

There is also fairly clearly a scapegoating exercise going on. The document says It contains norms regarding a particular question, made more urgent by the present situation, that is that of the admission or non-admission to the seminary and Holy Orders of candidates who have