09/13/2005
Post: "Gay American" McGreevey spotted dating a "typical Chelsea guy."
The British military will offer married quarters to those in same-sex civil unions after they become legal in December. Britain allowed gays to start serving in the military four years ago. Gerald Howarth, a Tory MP, has called the decision a "truly undesirable move" and said, "I am personally very much opposed to it. I am emphatically against homosexual marriage and I voted against the bill. This is a Christian country and Christian teaching is very clear on these matters and I am extremely concerned that young people today are being bombarded with literature which suggests that a homosexual relationship is the same as a heterosexual relationship, which it is not."
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very interesting...
Posted by: Roy | Sep 13, 2005 12:21:42 PM
Funny how you never hear "judge not, lest ye be judged" coming from the pulpit any more.
Posted by: Michael | Sep 13, 2005 12:29:38 PM
"Judge not, lest ye be judged"
I thought Christian teaching was very clear on that matter, as well.
Posted by: RDiggy | Sep 13, 2005 1:22:40 PM
Good for McGreevey. Glad to see he's settling into his real life.
As for the British Tories: in the words of Dick Cheney...
Posted by: Tread | Sep 13, 2005 2:21:47 PM
Excerpt from:
Alien vs. Predator
What the McGreevey mess means for closets, corruption, and casting couches
by Michael Musto
With all these lurid layers wrapped around the McGreevey story like a Dolce & Gabbana suit, the gay pundits are having a foofy field day. Reaction has been impassioned and mixed, from out Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank (who survived his own escort scandal in '89) welcoming the closet flinging to Chelsea bar patrons pontificating over sour apple martinis, "I never realized McGreevey was so cute!" (Or that Cipel was so straight.)
Choire Sicha, the gawker.com blogger-turned-overseer, told me he loved the spectacle of Anderson Cooper and Shepard Smith having to roll around in the story on camera. But what does the whole squalid soap opera represent? "You can read it really traditionally," said Sicha. "This is why J. Edgar Hoover used to say the CIA wouldn't let gays in. They could use it to blackmail you!" Especially if you're fully gowned like Hoover. But just as traditional was McGreevey's claim to have had an affair with one man. "Like, oh right," smirked Sicha. "A man this week."
Conversely, author-Barneys creative director Simon Doonan feels McGreevey was too forthcoming. "With his wife standing there," Doonan told me, "he could have at least said, 'I'm bisexual.' It really elbowed her out of the picture big time, which made him seem a bit less than charitable. Gay people are usually a little sweeter than that."
Posted by: jay | Sep 14, 2005 1:45:03 AM