Category Archives: homophobia

Gimme me a wafer and a mouthful of wine blues

Posted on June 5, 2007 by Charles Lambert

According to ANSA, a priest in the province of Bari has refused the Eucharist to a young gay man from a ‘difficult family’. Unfortunately, the press release doesn’t specify what kind of Eucharist. The tasteless wafer produced in some factory … Continue reading →

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Odd bedfellows

Posted on June 5, 2007 by Charles Lambert

In the wacky Tweedledum and Tweedledee world of post-modern Poland, it seems only natural that Tinky Winky and Goethe should find themselves sharing the same rather incommodious bed of censorship. The purple Teletubby and the great German poet apparently both … Continue reading →

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And we are here as on a darkling plain…

Posted on June 3, 2007 by Charles Lambert

The situation for gays in Eastern Europe is getting worse, and we’re nowhere near the end of it, as can be seen from this article, which describes the growing homophobia in Latvia, Poland and Russia.( See my posts below, Protecting … Continue reading →

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Naughty Fausto!

Posted on May 31, 2007 by Charles Lambert

The Families Association Forum is frothing at the mouth about the fact that Italy’s Speaker at the House of Deputies, Fausto Bertinotti, friend of Castro, Carlos and, er, the Dalai Lama and just back from a rejuvenating spiritual break on … Continue reading →

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Protecting children, Polish style

Posted on May 29, 2007 by Charles Lambert

In line with recent attempts by the Polish government to outlaw any mention of homosexuality in schools, a certain Ewa Sowinska, the crackpot person responsible for children’s rights in Poland (including, apparently, the right not be informed), has ordered an … Continue reading →

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To Moscow… and back (sharpish)

Posted on May 28, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Among those putin putting the boot into gay protesters in Moscow yesterday were two Orthodox priests. Of course, deep down, what they’d really like to do is turn the other cheek. Right, boys? Right and left? I said turn, not … Continue reading →

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Good riddance to…

Posted on May 18, 2007 by Charles Lambert

…the Reverend Jerry Falwell. His vile homophobic ranting preaching career started in the abandoned Donald Duck Bottling Company. Would that it had ended there.

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Moral relativism

Posted on May 16, 2007 by Charles Lambert

The Secretary of the CEI (Italian Bishops’ Council) has just announced — from a pulpit, no less — that abortion, euthanasia and moral relativism are the enemies of Christianity. He went on to explain that what he actually means by … Continue reading →

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Family Day: countdown

Posted on May 9, 2007 by Charles Lambert

A few years ago, holier-than-thou British programmes like Eurotrash revelled in the excesses of Italian television. Remember the strip-tease housewives? The super-camp fortune tellers? The surgically enhanced tits and bums of showgirls and B-list actresses newsreaders and members of parliament? … Continue reading →

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Bagnasco: Shame!

Posted on April 30, 2007 by Charles Lambert

When does a comment become a threat? Apparently, when it’s directed at the head of the Italian Episcopal Council. God’s ferret stepped down a couple of months ago, to be replaced by Archbishop Bagnasco of Genoa. This would be of … Continue reading →

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