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 Christian couple who say they have been barred from fostering because of their “traditional” views on homosexuality are to take their case to the High Court.
Eunice and Owen Johns said their local council’s fostering panel rejected them as carers because they could not tell a child a homosexual lifestyle was acceptable.
This is terrible, says the Christians in a letter to the Sunday Telegraph. Not being allowed to say that “gay people are wicked sinners that must burn in hell!” to the kids that the social services place in their care amounts to coercion and persecution.
The bishops claim that the case, which is expected to begin at the High Court this week, will determine whether Christians can continue to be express their beliefs in this country.
They fear that the ruling has the potential to exclude people of faith from adopting or fostering children and enshrine the discrimination of those with traditional Biblical views.
I’m a bit baffled by the logic of the argument which seems to be that Christians feel persecuted and discriminated against because they’re not allowed to persecute and discriminate against gay people. How about a deal, Christians? You shut up about us and we’ll shut up about you? Okay?
Didn’t think so, which is why it’s nice to see indications that US troops have a markedly more sober attitude about the whole thing. According to leaks about the survey among the troops, the majority don’t seem to mind fighting along LGBT soldiers.
A majority of active-duty and reserve service members surveyed by the Defense Department would not object to serving and living alongside openly gay troops, according to multiple people familiar with the findings.
The survey’s results are expected to be included in a Pentagon report, due to President Obama on Dec. 1, regarding how the military would end enforcement of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law that bans openly gay men and lesbians from serving in uniform.
Which is good and proper, of course, if only the current administration hadn’t enraged the LGBT community Over There by actually going into court to fight for a policy they view as bad. A policy stance that the White House shares with Hollywood in general, because it seems the moviemakers can’t get it right, despite the rhetoric.
I’m of course talking about the dilemma that Ron Howard’s movie “The Dilemma” has got itself into. In the movie there’s a joke that has enraged the queers in the US. The character disparages electric cars as being “gay”, ie bad.
Despite being pulled from the movie’s trailer after a whirlwind of controversy, an “electric cars are gay” joke will remain in “The Dilemna” for the film’s upcoming theatrical release, director Ron Howard told the Los Angeles Times.
Now it remains if the gay opens their wallets to pay for admission. It seems unlikely, doesn’t it?
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