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While it is tragic that the Church has refused to countenance ongoing discussion about homosexuality, women priests, and a host of other issues, neither can I see how the stance taken by St Mary's on these and other matters can advance the causes of religion or reason.
The United Nations estimates that 5,000 honour killings occur annually. These killings are a rebellion against modernity, attempts to hold on to older traditional values, especially concerning social relations and sexuality.
Bishop Anthony Fisher's recent lecture is based on a similar lecture in 1991 by the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. Both attempt to diminish the importance given to conscience in the moral and religious life of Catholics.
The popularity of Waz and Gav, the gay couple in the first series of Channel 9’s The Block, helped them launch their own design company. It also highlighted the boundaries of acceptable mainstream images of gay men.
Holding The Man, a modern Australian non-fiction classic, is now on stage in Sydney. A same-sex relationship sets two students on a path thats leads to deeply fulfilling lives, but also a premature death from AIDS.
Churches today run into trouble on gender and sexuality. Public discussion reveals passionately held differences within churches and between churches, and culture.
Australian responses to AIDS.
Passing on inherited wisdom is always fraught. Especially when the wisdom clashes with that of the prevailing culture.
You don’t have to delve far into the media to recognise what a difficulty homosexuality presents for the Christian churches and to society in general. It’s no less a problem for biology.
Reviews of the films Monster, The Cat in the Hat, The Barbarian Invasions, and Capturing the Friedmans.
Gay and married in Madrid.
Alan Nichols reviews Muriel Porter’sThe New Puritans: The Rise of Fundamentalism in the Anglican Church.
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