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Gay? It’s a burden from God, says Catholic half-wit

Sunday, June 8, 2008

CATHOLIC Lena Wojdan is a Warsaw-based psychologist who, unlike Iris Robinson’s pet psychiatrist who thinks gays can be “turned around”, believes instead that homosexuality is “a burden from God” which people must learn to accept.
They [homosexuals] need to accept that God created them as they are. This is something that they have been given to [...]

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Catholics disowns bishop who condemned sexual abuse in the Church

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

THERE was bound to be trouble when retired Sydney bishop Geoffrey Robinson published Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church last August, because it told the Catholic Church things they just did not want to know.
So instead of dealing with the issues he raised in his book, it decided instead to disown him.
According to [...]

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Catholics first in the queue

Monday, January 28, 2008

When it comes to possible advancements in science, it’s usually religionists who are first in line to complain. In this case, it’s the Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly and the new Welsh Secretary Paul Murphy – Catholics both – who are leading calls for a free vote on the UK Parliament’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill.
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Rent-a-quote Green, the lazy journo’s favourite

Friday, December 28, 2007

Stephen Green has become the answer to the lazy journalist’s prayer. Once again, he’s wheeled out to comment on a story that has no connection with religion at all. But, well, it’s about young people’s sexuality, ennit? So we call on a religious figure, don’t we?
Duh!
This national director of Christian Voice – and, as far [...]

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