Christian couple fight for homophobia; Christians are persecuted; US troops welcome teh gays; and Ron Howard keeps the gay joke

I haven’t done a news round-up for a bit since I’ve been busy with my books, which I grovel in the dust about. I promise betterment, and to start it off lets talk about religion and politics to get you into the proper scoffing mood.

Religion is treated very differently in the UK than in the states, thankfully. Here in England ostentatious display of religious fervour in public will make onlookers do small circular motions at the temples. It’s not something you do, okay? Religion is private.

That doesn’t stop certain Christians of course, and one couple that was banned from fostering because they couldn’t promise to be neutral about homosexuality to the kids that Derby local council wanted to place with them has decided to try to get a court to lift the ban.

A Time of Malice

So many dead kids over the last couple of months put the realities of our lives into perspective, and bring the drab numbers of statistics into the sharp focus that we rarely see.

These last few weeks have been a tumultuous time for the LGBT community with all those dead kids over in the States. For a while it seemed like there wasn’t a day without a report on another young life ended by persecution and harassment.

Justin Aaberg, Seth Walsh, Billie Lucas, Asher Brown, Tyler Clementi, Zach Harrington and Corey Jackson are just a few of the names in the list who saw no other chance for relief than to end their own lives.