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HIS CAME Across the AP yesterday, pointed out to me by a friend on Twitter. Russian Orthodox Church embraces gays. “IS OUTRAGE!” says Fr Vasili, I’m sure: not lamenting the sudden embrace, but rather the misleading headline. Be sure to read the AP story: essentially gay is still bad, but we oppose persecution of gays. [...]

HE MOVEMENT “Community” is a Finnish ecumenical organisation that seeks to include members of sexual minorities (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Queer, etc) in the full life of the Church. I found out about them reading a report against them from a conservative group within the Finnish Orthodox Church, the Brotherhood of St Kosmas of Aitolia. [...]

The Agonizing (yet Most Entertaining) Death Throes of America’s Bourgeois Christian Cults: Glory to God for All things. “‘But the religious right failed. “ I don’t know a thing about the new Mayor’s politics. I tend to imagine she is at least as conservative as the usual dixiecrats ie: a full-on Republican in all but [...]

EEN A GOOD Day since my earlier post: UPDATE (1): Fr Peter responds in grace and love and keeping to the traditional teachings of his church. Amen! Update (2) Rick Warren does the right thing UPDATE (3) Rod’s on board. Update (4) The Vatican Chimes in today as well. They all hedge their bets but [...]

HINGS THAT MAKE You want to be an atheist… 1) I do, really, believe there is a right way to do CHristianity and a wrong way to do it. 2) I do, really, believe that this right and wrong has little to do with “doctrine” per se (iota sized technicalities about begetting and essence and [...]

F COURSE This shows up in my in-box just as I’m going to work. Here’s a link. Comments later. The Antigay Highway: New Report Details Mutually Beneficial Relationship Between US Evangelicals and African Antigay Clergy. “This report describes growing anti-gay movements in African churches as a ‘proxy war’ for US culture battles.”. I love being [...]

HANKS, PINE Tree State, for once again proving that civil right should never – ever – be left up to a simple majority vote. The simple majority always wins. One wonders why Americans (and the rest of the world) are still so fascinated by democracy. Freedom, I can understand, liberty, equality, etc. But tyranny of [...]

Pray for James Parkes.

OT TO LAUGH At the so-called “Christians” out there… Senate passes hate crimes bill that would extend protection to gays, lesbians… and the right-wingnuts say… “‘Expanding hate crimes puts America in lock step with the stated agenda of homosexual activists who will turn next to the so-called Employment Non-Discrimination Act, followed by the repeal of [...]

T ONE TIME, As many readers know, I attempted to live out what I saw as Theological Orthodoxy within a “canonical” Orthodox Church. At the time this included traditional teachings on human sexuality: these are heteronomative assumptions of monogamy equated with divine revelations of morality – and to make that statement I do not need [...]