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Richly deserved it is, too.

Hateful sh¡ts.

So now the police are on to them their looking at different ways to children?

Join the campaign to keep the bishops away from a reformed HoL

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'Give me a child until he is seven – and I will give you a homophobe.'

But the Catholic Church [iisn't[/i homophobic. They said so. They just think that homosexuals shouldn't be allowed the same rights as 'normal' people. And that their behaviour is perverse and unnatural. And that they're all going to hell. But other than that, not at all homophobic.

I was working with a religious type who said they can be homosexual they just couldn't act of those feelings.

Nice.

That used to be (and probably still is) my mother's approach. At least she pretty much seemed to accept that homosexuals are born, if you will. I really used to hear the 'God made Adam and Eve and not Adam and Steve' thing, plus comments about how 'dogs don't do it'.

Both of which (if one believes in a god who is creator) are therefore false.

My father's improved a bit, but as I've said before, it's not that many years ago that I was sitting in my parents' living room when my mother said, pretty much out of the blue and with a slightly nervous titter: "Well we know it's wrong, but at least you know what men do, but what do lesbians do?"

I managed to skate over that. In her seventies, if she couldn't think of just a couple of things, then I wasn't going to start broadening her horizons. It's actually rather sad, really.

They're not homophobic. They don't hate gay people they just hate the fact that gay people engage in consentual acts with other adults that cause no harm to any other individuals.

Erm, dogs DO "do it", they'll "do it" to anything until you castrate them, then they just want to sleep all day.

Its not a bad life.

Some of us could quite happily sleep all day without feeling the need to hump your leg first or being castrated.

I think it's my age.

What? You [idon't[/i want to hump Mr Field's leg?

Not again, no.

Look, just because you forgot the KY last time ...

Yeah, I never did get an address to send that dry cleaning bill to...


Age is a great castrator though, apparently.

I've heard 'they should be put on a island and shot' (apparently that will stop it) a few times, although my grandmother has started defending the rights of homosexuals to her bigoted brother I can't help thinking she wouldn't have if my cousin hadn't have told her she was gay or if my grandfather was still alive.

Sounds like an idea for a TV show.

"Day four in the Bigoted Brother house and Nick Griffin is spitroasting Gillian Duffy with Nigel Farage..."

The pope would win it!

Why did your grandmother need your cousin to tell her she was gay, didn't she know herself?

It was a awkward conversation.

[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/may/15/michael-gove-king-james-bibleAt least business has come in to rescue Gove's school bible plan[/url

Good to see that the Education Secretary has got his priorities right, his plan to send each primary and secondary school in the country a copy of the St James bible, has been rescued thanks to tory donors chipping in. Even better that these bibles are written in 17th century English, I bet the kids can hardly wait to start reading them.

I wonder when the first one will appear on eBay?

Few, I thought they'd waste peoples time and money.

Anyone got the stats on how many schools didn't have a [iBible[/i and thus desperately needed one?

You're missing the point: this one has a foreward written by Gove himself. I'm frankly amazed that our schools have coped without such a literary gem as long as they have.