Christian Concern for Sodomy
Dear Readers,
What an interesting time us queers had in Blighty last week. If Kylie coming down with a cold wasn’t enough, it seems only a day after posting the gay housewives views on sex an enormous media extravaganza kicked off over Sodomy and the equal provision of services for Gays! Yes, the government’s gone all pro gay again! As much as the Labor government has spent the past 9 years and 9 Months doing some very strange things such as appointing members of Opus Dei to high office, starting the odd war and selling schools to the highest bidding Church, Business or mad individual it has also made some good legislative progress for us Happy Homos. We now have an equal age of consent at 16, discrimination in the work place on a basis of sexual orientation is banned, civil partnerships for same sex couples are now enshrined into British law a la Elton & Dave, Matt & Kevin, Myself and my lovely Husband and Thatcher’s abhorrent Section 28 that banned the promotion of homosexuality by local authority and schools has been revoked. Yes, you can now hold a gay-knitting morning to raise funds for Terrance Higgins in a council property without the fear of arrest!
This week the next step in Labors pro-homo agenda came up for debate in the House of Lords. The government is planning a set of “Sexual Orientation Regulations” to bring equality to the provision of services to gay men and women. Recently a Scottish couple were denied a room in a B&B near Loch Lomond because the proprietor did not want “acts of sodomy” committed in his B&B, another couple were having building work done in their house and received an invoice addressed to “The Gays”, needless to say that wasn’t their second name. Worse still, another couple were trying to get quotes for building work on their home and a builder flatly refused to work for a gay couple and many religious organizations will not hire their venues to gay organizations. When the gay housewife struggles to add a conservatory to the eastern wing, find suitable holiday accommodation or secure a venue for a bake sale we are indeed in a very sorry state. And one has to ask, would the same builders or religious groups deny service to a black couple, a Muslim man or a single mother? No, they wouldn’t because it is socially unacceptable and they can’t because to so would be against the law.
However, passing legislation is never simple, especially when it comes to the House of Lords, which has not been the traditional friend of the Gay-Lord. However, this week the protests from within the Lords have been relatively muted, compared to those from outside. In a rare and touching moment of unity Christians, Jews and Muslims found the time to come together for some draconian gay bashing in the name of Faith. These groups, largely on the far right of their religions, not only want a clause exempting religious organizations, they want the whole thing struck. They believe the proposed legislation, already in act in Northern Ireland, would force them to choose between obedience to god or the state. This, to put it politely, is the mildest of their many and far ranging arguments; some say they would be forced to take gays into their organizations, schools would have to promote same-sex education and most perplexing of all, B&B’s would have to give a double to a transsexual couple! I can just see it now, a torrent of homosexual sodomy throughout the nations family run B&B’s! None of the above arguments are true, they are based on a campaign of lies, media speculation and misunderstanding of the law. However, it is touching to see all these faith based groups remain relatively quite about on going genocide and rape in Dafur, civil unrest in Somalia and outright slaughter in Assam, but flex their not inconsiderable media muscle the minute a bit of good old buggery comes along.
At the heart of this debate is the group “The Christian Concern for our Nation”, who organized a torch lit protest on 9th Jan when this legislation was being debated in the House of Lords. Their protest was met with dignified counter-protest from various gay groups but the whole thing made a rather grim spectacle. The heart of Christian Concern’s argument against equality for us comes from the Bible, and of course, the Old Testament. Yes, the homos friend Leviticus is rearing his ugly head once more. Leviticus 18:22 states: “Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable”, and latter day speculation has turned this to mean sodomy between two men as a sin, strangely it doesn’t say anything about heterosexual sodomy, which I can only assume is a perfectly acceptable act to perform in a Christian B&B.
While Leviticus quite sensibly points out shagging your father, and just about every other member of your family is a sin he advocates a myriad of other strange things that Christian Concern has been mysteriously quiet about. One presumes, in a pro-Leviticus B&B it is normal to not only own slaves but sell your daughter into slavery, one avoids wearing mixed cloths, because of course you would become unclean, and you should refrain from touching both your wife during her period and pig skin because they also make you unclean and of course cutting your hair in said establishment is a sin punishable by death. I don’t know about you, but I think Christian Concern have hit on something; a chain of pro-Leviticus B&B’s; imagine the fun you could have!
Puerile point scoring aside, Christian Concern would argue the world has moved on from the Old Testament, but moral guidance can still be found within it. However you can just as easily argue the modern world, by in large, is more tolerant of homosexuality, we have laws to protect those who are gay and entire societies and economy’s are based around the gay life style so, as we let go of slavery & stoning our unclean wives, maybe we should let go of Leviticus’ teachings on homosexuality.
Fellow gay housewife’s, I ask you to write to your MP’s urging them to support the legislation in full, without exceptions for religious organizations, and while you’re at it ask them to get rid of the old hobo who lurks outside Waitrose. If you don’t know who your MP is, or their address, go to www.writetothem.com and simply by entering your post code you can send an email to your MP! Modern technology – lovely isn’t it!
Love and equal provision of services to you all,
(m)Arthur
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Say hello at MySpace or email me
Dear Readers,
What an interesting time us queers had in Blighty last week. If Kylie coming down with a cold wasn’t enough, it seems only a day after posting the gay housewives views on sex an enormous media extravaganza kicked off over Sodomy and the equal provision of services for Gays! Yes, the government’s gone all pro gay again! As much as the Labor government has spent the past 9 years and 9 Months doing some very strange things such as appointing members of Opus Dei to high office, starting the odd war and selling schools to the highest bidding Church, Business or mad individual it has also made some good legislative progress for us Happy Homos. We now have an equal age of consent at 16, discrimination in the work place on a basis of sexual orientation is banned, civil partnerships for same sex couples are now enshrined into British law a la Elton & Dave, Matt & Kevin, Myself and my lovely Husband and Thatcher’s abhorrent Section 28 that banned the promotion of homosexuality by local authority and schools has been revoked. Yes, you can now hold a gay-knitting morning to raise funds for Terrance Higgins in a council property without the fear of arrest!
This week the next step in Labors pro-homo agenda came up for debate in the House of Lords. The government is planning a set of “Sexual Orientation Regulations” to bring equality to the provision of services to gay men and women. Recently a Scottish couple were denied a room in a B&B near Loch Lomond because the proprietor did not want “acts of sodomy” committed in his B&B, another couple were having building work done in their house and received an invoice addressed to “The Gays”, needless to say that wasn’t their second name. Worse still, another couple were trying to get quotes for building work on their home and a builder flatly refused to work for a gay couple and many religious organizations will not hire their venues to gay organizations. When the gay housewife struggles to add a conservatory to the eastern wing, find suitable holiday accommodation or secure a venue for a bake sale we are indeed in a very sorry state. And one has to ask, would the same builders or religious groups deny service to a black couple, a Muslim man or a single mother? No, they wouldn’t because it is socially unacceptable and they can’t because to so would be against the law.
However, passing legislation is never simple, especially when it comes to the House of Lords, which has not been the traditional friend of the Gay-Lord. However, this week the protests from within the Lords have been relatively muted, compared to those from outside. In a rare and touching moment of unity Christians, Jews and Muslims found the time to come together for some draconian gay bashing in the name of Faith. These groups, largely on the far right of their religions, not only want a clause exempting religious organizations, they want the whole thing struck. They believe the proposed legislation, already in act in Northern Ireland, would force them to choose between obedience to god or the state. This, to put it politely, is the mildest of their many and far ranging arguments; some say they would be forced to take gays into their organizations, schools would have to promote same-sex education and most perplexing of all, B&B’s would have to give a double to a transsexual couple! I can just see it now, a torrent of homosexual sodomy throughout the nations family run B&B’s! None of the above arguments are true, they are based on a campaign of lies, media speculation and misunderstanding of the law. However, it is touching to see all these faith based groups remain relatively quite about on going genocide and rape in Dafur, civil unrest in Somalia and outright slaughter in Assam, but flex their not inconsiderable media muscle the minute a bit of good old buggery comes along.
At the heart of this debate is the group “The Christian Concern for our Nation”, who organized a torch lit protest on 9th Jan when this legislation was being debated in the House of Lords. Their protest was met with dignified counter-protest from various gay groups but the whole thing made a rather grim spectacle. The heart of Christian Concern’s argument against equality for us comes from the Bible, and of course, the Old Testament. Yes, the homos friend Leviticus is rearing his ugly head once more. Leviticus 18:22 states: “Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable”, and latter day speculation has turned this to mean sodomy between two men as a sin, strangely it doesn’t say anything about heterosexual sodomy, which I can only assume is a perfectly acceptable act to perform in a Christian B&B.
While Leviticus quite sensibly points out shagging your father, and just about every other member of your family is a sin he advocates a myriad of other strange things that Christian Concern has been mysteriously quiet about. One presumes, in a pro-Leviticus B&B it is normal to not only own slaves but sell your daughter into slavery, one avoids wearing mixed cloths, because of course you would become unclean, and you should refrain from touching both your wife during her period and pig skin because they also make you unclean and of course cutting your hair in said establishment is a sin punishable by death. I don’t know about you, but I think Christian Concern have hit on something; a chain of pro-Leviticus B&B’s; imagine the fun you could have!
Puerile point scoring aside, Christian Concern would argue the world has moved on from the Old Testament, but moral guidance can still be found within it. However you can just as easily argue the modern world, by in large, is more tolerant of homosexuality, we have laws to protect those who are gay and entire societies and economy’s are based around the gay life style so, as we let go of slavery & stoning our unclean wives, maybe we should let go of Leviticus’ teachings on homosexuality.
Fellow gay housewife’s, I ask you to write to your MP’s urging them to support the legislation in full, without exceptions for religious organizations, and while you’re at it ask them to get rid of the old hobo who lurks outside Waitrose. If you don’t know who your MP is, or their address, go to www.writetothem.com and simply by entering your post code you can send an email to your MP! Modern technology – lovely isn’t it!
Love and equal provision of services to you all,
(m)Arthur
x
Say hello at MySpace or email me
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