"On the margins of bigger news in recent days have been
three little stories that caught my attention. The Mayor of London has
reportedly stepped in to stop a Christian evangelical group advertising
on London buses their claim that people can be “cured” of being
homosexual."And Chris Birch, from Wales, has testified to turning
from being heterosexual to being gay, after suffering a stroke when he
broke his neck at the age of 26. Meanwhile, in a letter to The Times
this morning, 15 senior figures in the Church of England — bishops and
others — support gay marriage and see “God’s grace at work in same-sex
relationships”.
"It seems that, depending on your point of view,
God, a stroke or a broken neck can turn you gay, help you to be gay or
make you straight. On one thing, though, these opinions all agree —
people can change.
"And (gulp) I think that’s true. I will be
misinterpreted; I may give comfort to wrongheaded evangelicals; gay
friends may think I’m letting the side down ... but I do believe that
male sexual orientation is less fixed than we suppose. It may alter. We
gays fought that idiotic “section 28” on dishonest grounds.
Homosexuality can, as the statute implied, be “promoted”. So can
heterosexuality. It always has been, with much success..."
Matthew Parris in The Times.
Yes, people change, most of my ex-boyfriends are straight.
So what?
Miss Parris goes on to jizz out ever more cliches - and shows that the idea of homosexuality as a social construct and a modern "invention" is now the preserve of the right.
I'm so bored with people writing the most stupid and banal things and saying they're being controversial.
You're not - you're just being stupid and banal.
Saturday, 21 April 2012
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