Before I escaped from the Diocese of Niagara, someone told me that the Diocese of Toronto – where his parish was – was much more conservative than Niagara.
He must have been right, the diocesan cathedral’s Gay Pride contingent was fully clothed:
Gay Pride Parades are a celebration of grotesqueries. One would think that the ostensible desire for homosexuality to be absorbed into the zeitgeist of humdrum social acceptability would be antipathetic to publicly displaying the oddities that inhabit the fringes of the gender demolishment movement. But no, every year, in every country that will allow it, there is the hideous cavorting of those intent on impressing the rest of us with their normality.
What is even stranger, is the attendance of politicians who obviously view the whole exercise as a means of attracting votes. In the UK, political parties are vying with each other to exhibit their gayness by abandoning themselves to the revelry.
Gordon Brown even tries to smile, which is a dreadful mistake.
Will the UK start censoring the Bible?
Under pressure from influential gay lobby groups such as Stonewall, with widespread media-fuelled public support behind them, the State will be faced with the question of what attitude it should take towards the wide availability of the Bible in the United Kingdom in the English language. Currently you can easily purchase an uncensored copy of the Bible from mainstream retail outlets and from online retailers such as Amazon.
Will the State allow a Stonewall-approved version of the Bible in retail outlets with certain offensive passages excised?
This, although idiotic, isn’t necessarily all bad; if it happens, it will leave people clamouring to read the forbidden versions of the Bible.
Apparently the NHS in the UK can’t afford to pay ambulance drivers overtime when they are on duty, but in an effort to keep up appearances, can afford to pay them to attend a gay pride parade:
Ambulance staff are being offered overtime to take part in a gay march – regardless of their sexuality.
Dozens of paramedics, the majority of whom are heterosexual, are being encouraged to walk along Brighton’s seafront in their uniform at this year’s Pride festival.
They will be provided with refreshments and driven to and from the resort, all adding to the bill for the taxpayer.
A paramedic who contacted the Daily Mail said South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Trust had decided to pay its workers £40 each to take part in their own time because it was feared that not enough would volunteer for the event.
The money is the equivalent of two hours’ overtime pay, although paramedics say the trust has recently stopped paying overtime while they are actually on duty, blaming financial pressure.
Companies in Canada are vying to outdo each other in politically correct gaiety; IBM, once a bastion of blue suited conservativeness, sponsors a float in the Toronto gay pride parade and is proud of its diversity:
IBM Canada Ltd. was reported by the Globe and Mail newspaper to have a gay, lesbian, bisexual and “transgendered” group, and to have entered a contingent in Toronto’s gay pride festivities.
IBM – which also has a gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgendered “task force” – should be a place where people feel comfortable being openly gay, according to the corporation’s vice-president of workforce diversity. Anyone who has a problem with that need not apply to IBM, he added.
As you will note, IBM is so diverse that anyone who does not share its enthusiasm for an actively gay lifestyle is not welcome.
If there is any doubt about the monumental muddle we are in about gender, take a look at this:
Huron Diocese moves toward same-sex blessing
The Diocese of Huron in London is moving toward same-sex blessings, but falls short of marriage for those of similar gender.
A similar gender?
It’s curious that in a digital age people seem to be so averse to either/or categorisations: instead, a sliding scale between truth and falsehood, right and wrong, black and white is to be preferred. And now we have one between men and women.
Some things that are so serious that it would be unbecoming to poke fun at them. This is one:
Two “gay” male penguins have hatched a chick and are now rearing it as its adoptive parents, says a German zoo.
The zoo, in Bremerhaven, northern Germany, says the adult males – Z and Vielpunkt – were given an egg which was rejected by its biological parents.
It says the couple are now happily rearing the chick, said to have reached four weeks old.
The zoo made headlines in 2005 over plans to “test” the sexual orientation of penguins with homosexual traits.
Three pairs of male penguins had been seen attempting to mate with each other and trying to hatch offspring from stones.
The zoo flew in four females in a bid to get the endangered birds to reproduce – but quickly abandoned the scheme after causing outrage among gay rights activists, who accused it of interfering in the animals’ behaviour.
The six “gay” penguins remain at the zoo, among them Z and Vielpunkt who are now rearing the chick together after being given the rejected egg.
Yesterday morning when I was walking my dog – a 75lb golden retriever – we met a dog that was a mixed breed of cocker spaniel and poodle; a cockapoo, its owner informed me. The dog was mixed up in more than one way since, as soon as it spotted my dog, it decided to try and have sexual intercourse with my dog’s head – which was about the same size as the entire cockapoo – by enthusiastically humping it in a characteristically male way. My dog just stood and looked puzzled. It turned out that the cockapoo was a female; clearly a case of a gay dog’s essence being trapped in a bitch’s body, I thought. The owner of the transgender gay cockapoo was about to pull his amorous dog off my dog’s head when I stopped him. “Don’t!” I cried – “we mustn’t interfere with their behaviour ”.
Well, that last bit isn’t quite true.
Transphobia could, I suppose, be the irrational fear of any number of things: transubstantiation; trans fatty acids; GM bringing back the Trans-Am. We all know that it’s really the irrational fear of “gender variance in society”, though, don’t we. I don’t know about you, but I can scarcely bring myself to step outside my front door for fear of encountering rampant gender variance.
The usual Episcopalians, Unitarians, and other left-leaning quasi-religious dubbed those who believe one is born either as a man or a woman harbingers of violence. Rabbi Steven Jacobs of Temple Kol Tikvah in Los Angeles warned against an apparent new social disease, “transphobia,” which is “the fear of gender variance in society.” The rabbi lamented: “Gender rigidity impacts all of us, even if we are not transgender. That belief that there are only two ways to be human leads to violence and oppression.”
Sadly, evangelicals are now being recruited into this lunacy. Tony Campolo, although always a willing victim of political leftist fantasies to some degree, now seems to have gone completely off the deep end:
“Justice is love translated into social policy,” Campolo insisted at the Human Rights Campaign Clergy Call press conference. “This [legislation] is a chance to practice that love.” Previously expressing support for traditional marriage, and a popular speaker for evangelical conferences, Campolo appeared slightly uncomfortable surrounded by hard-line sexual identity activists, many of them seemingly post-operative transsexuals. Still, he soldiered on, asserting that supplementing federal hate crimes legislation with protection for “sexual orientation” would not threaten free speech among the clergy, “as long as [a sermon] does not promote violence.” Campolo declared: “We evangelicals who have such a high view of scripture should want justice for gays, lesbians and transgendered persons.”
From here:
A senior teacher has been suspended from his £50,000-a-year job after he complained that a training day for staff was used to promote gay rights.
Kwabena Peat, 54, was one of several Christian staff who walked out of the compulsory session at a North London school after an invited speaker questioned why people thought heterosexuality was natural.
The presentation was given by Sue Sanders, a co-founder of the Schools Out organisation which campaigns for gay equality in education.
According to Mr Peat, Ms Sanders, herself a lesbian, said that staff who did not accept that being gay was normal had ‘issues’ they had to deal with.
She started promoting homosexual lifestyles and suggesting those who had objections should sort out their prejudices. She said, “What makes you all think that to be heterosexual is natural?” It was at that point I walked out.’
By saying “What makes you all think that to be heterosexual is natural” one assumes that Sue Sanders is not about to make the case for heterosexual sex being supernatural; the point she is attempting to make is that, in the view of equality commissars, a homosexual act is no more contrary to nature’s intent than a heterosexual one. Little argument is given for this: we have already moved beyond discussion to enforcement.
Why might homosexual activity not be nature’s norm? The reasons don’t seem to be beyond the reach of common sense:
First, the plumbing is wrong.
Second, for those who believe we are here through natural selection, the homosexual gene – if it exists – is a dead end gene that eventually should be selected out; hardly a case for normality. The fact that it has not been either means we haven’t given it enough time, or we are not here through natural selection.
Third, if there is no homosexual gene, gayness becomes a lifestyle choice; it has no more claim to normality than any other unusual lifestyle choices. Most lifestyle eccentrics are proud of their peculiarities: to canvas for recognition of normality for freely chosen foibles would be self-defeating. No self-respecting eccentric wishes to be reduced to hum-drum, mediocre normality.
Forth, to bring in religion, all major faiths maintain that God’s design is for heterosexual sex within marriage – I am excluding Western Anglicanism since it isn’t a major faith.
I suppose one can hardly blame a politician for giving free advice to Christian leaders, since Christian leaders cannot resist giving advice to politicians. In this spirit of cross-discipline enlightenment, Tony Blair is advising the Pope on how to deal with the homosexuality issue:
The Pope and the Vatican have an “entrenched attitude” towards homosexuality which is less tolerant than the views of ordinary Catholics, Tony Blair says in comments published today.
The former prime minister, who converted to Catholicism shortly after leaving office two years ago, said he disagreed with the Pope’s stance on gay rights and controversially suggested that the Church should reform itself along similar lines to how he re-organised the Labour Party.
“Organised religions face the same dilemma as political parties when faced with changed circumstances,” he said.
His generally liberal stance on abortion also contrasts with the Vatican, which supported the excommunication of a mother and four doctors in Brazil last month who performed a termination on a nine-year-old girl who had been raped by her stepfather.
“You can either A: Hold on to your core vote, basically, you know, say ‘Look let’s not break out because if we break out we might lose what we’ve got, and at least we’ve got what we’ve got so let’s keep it’. Or B: You say ‘let’s accept that the world is changing, and let us work out how we can lead that change and actually reach out’.”
One wonders if Tony Blair actually looked into what Catholics believe he before decided to become one or whether it just seemed like a good idea at the time, and he is now belatedly discovering all the little obstacles entailed in his leap of faith.
The idea that the church must change to accommodate to the world is not a new one: it bedevils all mainline denominations. To succumb to it, of course, renders one’s faith changeable, meaningless, powerless and is a sure road to denominational extinction – just ask Western Anglicans.
This is for those who are still unconvinced of the crusade to impose the religion of gayness on those who would rather not, thank you all the same:
Family in 11th-hour legal battle to halt brothers’ adoption by gay couple
Two young brothers face adoption by a gay couple despite the desperate protests of their mother, grandparents and extended family.
The grandparents, an aunt and an uncle have all offered to give the boys, aged six and nine, a loving home but they say social workers have turned them down without explanation.
Not to mention this, this and these moribund twitchings of a dying ex-Christian cult.
Not only is there a gay crusade, it is succeeding; governments and the Anglican church jump at its behest. It is committed to the destruction of the traditional family and is prepared to sacrifice anything and anyone that gets in its way.
