The Phobe Files . . .

This is the first in an occasional series which merely serves to collect together and present a few of the more in-my-face homophobic tales discovered in my travels. The articles and links are in no especial order or priority indicative of merit nor capacity to offensiveness, for example. All have been culled from the popular press, and have been lightly researched by me for authorship credentials, currency of the hyperlinks and presence of original content: indeed, where an article cannot be reproduced, it will not be paraphrased. Articles have been sent into to me in some cases, by colleagues overseas. However, what they all have in common, is that the content and context just happens to be the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. I feel that it is important that I drive home this fact from the start, since upon digesting some of the reportage, it is quite easy to lapse and sleepwalk into the fallacy that we are looking at the Middle East.

The first item on my list is the interview given by Cameron to the Gay Times magazine. Enough said, eeeeh, Daaayve?




What century?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8033724/Student-jumps-to-death-after-being-filmed-having-sex-with-man.html


What year?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/8013175/One-in-eight-bandbs-dont-welcome-gay-travellers.html

Church of filth and hypocrisy:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/senior-catholic-edmund-adamus-blames-uks-moral-wasteland-on-equal-rights-2067112.html

The same old tricks:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/world/europe/30belgium.html?_r=1&hp

Tell us something new:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/aug/27/child-abuse-catholic-church

At last, some sense:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/aug/19/catholic-adoption-agency-gay-parents

We love this, due to the fact that fate obviously has a sense of irony:

http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/05/23/pope’s-visit-faces-a-3-million-shortfall-–-and-god-tv-urgently-needs-4-million/

What year are we in?:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1301180/Ex-vicar-banned-foster-parent-refusing-let-gay-couples-visit-home.html

Again, which year? Care to misdate, anyone? Mid-70s?:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/lib-dems-to-vote-on-full-marriage-rights-for-gay-couples-2046695.html

The church is obviously incapable of keeping itself out of the news, nor indeed, protecting vulnerable children:

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/03/26/mexico.priest.abuse/index.html

Reserving some invective for the church of Rome, we have another beautiful revelation from the magazine, "Panorama" concerning the behaviour of the sad, people haters that work within Christ Plc:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1297083/Gay-priest-sex-scandal-undercover-Berlusconi-reporter-films-clerics-gay-clubs.html

And! Yet another lovely piece concerning religion, belief, christianity with a small "c", and boarding houses full of love and . . .  .

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/21/gay-couple-refused-hotel-room

I am hoping that by mid-year that I will NOT have enough material for a book, but a cursory check of my clippings folder leads me to the conclusion that I could not only be constructing a commercial website, but also be looking for gay and straight people with which to staff it.

And the saga at Christ Plc continues:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7096149.ece

PC attack case (Liverpool), latest news:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8620096.stm



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