Reading Time: 3 minutes Milo Yiannopoulos: will nothing about you surprise me any more? You are a shock-jock who gets off on controversy and being contrarian. He has, with the help of being kicked off social media, become increasingly irrelevant. And I suppose me saying all this plays into his hands… There is something very wrong about embracing conversion […]
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Jordan Peterson, Baking Cakes, Gays, Black People and Changing Minds
Reading Time: 3 minutes This clip is brilliant for a couple of reasons. Firstly, Jim Jeffries provides a brilliant analogy to show how denying baking a cake due to someone’s sexuality is logically equivalent to denying black people entry into a shop or onto a bus; since that is intuitively wrong, then so is the denial of services to […]
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Contraceptive Causality: Natural Law & Sexual Ethics
Reading Time: 7 minutes Gunther Laird has recently written a superb refutation of Natural Law Theory (NLT), as espoused these days by Christian thinkers such as Edward Feser who build upon work of Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle. This kind of worldview underwrites conservative lawmakers who try to utilise NLT to underwrite modern jurisprudence. Therefore, whilst some might see a […]
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Op-ed: ‘Abnormal sex’ and Bishop Morphou Neophytos
Reading Time: 3 minutes Now let me get this straight (pun unintentional), according to Saint Porfyrios and His Grace Bishop Morphou Neophytos, above, women give birth to homosexual sons (what about daughters?) if they have anal sexual relations (presumably with a feller, or should it be felon?) while pregnant. The implications are (ahem!) pregnant with possibilities. Now I am […]
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Uganda: ‘Kill the Gays’ Law Imposing Death Penalty on Homosexuals
Reading Time: 4 minutes Uganda is one of those countries that has had the unfortunate “privilege” of receiving money and missionaries from the United States. And those missionaries and that money isn’t about making the country a nicer, more cohesive country. It’s not about pulling those communities together. And this has been a long-term strategy. Just imagine going to […]
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Gay Conversion Therapy Group Founder Comes Out as Gay
Reading Time: 3 minutes These sorts of stories always leave us going, “Well, I saw that one coming…” In this case, the irony/hypocrisy meter is turned up to 11, in true Spinal Tapishness. Gay conversion therapy has long been the purview of the right-wing, and the Christian right-wing in particular. This story ticks all of those boxes, as People […]
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Natural Law Theory, Morality and Rational Beings
Reading Time: 4 minutes Natural Law Theory (NLT) is an ethical theory derived from the thinking of people such as Thomas Aquinas that attempts to establish that humans, for example, have an ideal form or essence that dictates how they should act. The form of a particular species of bird is that it has feathers, a beak, two eyes, […]
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Wide-Eyed Widdecombe: Science May “Produce an Answer” for the Gays
Reading Time: 3 minutes For those predominantly nonEnglish readers, Ann Widdecombe. Ladies and gentlemen, Ann Widdecombe… I’ll let Wikipedia do the introductions: Ann Noreen Widdecombe (born 4 October 1947) is a British politician[2] and author serving as a Brexit PartyMember of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South West England constituency since 2019. She served as Conservative PartyMember of Parliament (MP) for Maidstone from 1987 to 1997 and for Maidstone and […]
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Op-ed: Log Cabin Republicans have a queer view of equality
Reading Time: 4 minutes Log Cabin Republicans are a deluded group who work to persuade their fellow Republicans not to be homophobic, as one might try to persuade bank robbers not to rob banks. As Falstaff put it, ‘Why, Hal, ’tis my vocation, Hal. ‘Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.’ It’s Republicans’ vocation to […]
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Ashers’ ‘Gay Cake’: Why I support the Verdict (with Caveats)
Reading Time: 5 minutes This old chestnut has been rumbling on, first through two lower courts, and now finally ending at the Supreme Court in the UK. It’s an important verdict with some interesting ramifications, and I want to explain why I support the verdict, though with some caveats. This may or may not rile some fellow liberals, but I […]