In the last week we have watched a fascinating example of how the forces that would change progressive measures affecting LGBT people, their families and friends gain momentum. Watch how the media, uncritically, allow so called 'victims' of equality to appear on TV and radio programmes with out discovering who may be managing them. Often powerful, well funded, groups find individuals and couples who claim to have been 'persecuted' for their religious beliefs. For example, a business refuses to serve potential customers because they are gay or lesbian and cries "foul" because they claim it is against their religious beliefs. A couple are refused approval to foster children because of their religious views on homosexuality.
The word 'Christian' is used cleverly to give the impression that all Christians are heterosexual and homonegative. Gay and lesbian people are sloppily called 'the homosexual lobby'. The notion that the Christian church is monolithic is simply off the map. The reality of diversity is ignored. Language needs to be monitored constantly. And challenged if you have the energy.
The latest to join this argument is The Catholic Union http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=17839 but all the main Christian denominations have their own versions.
For a local example listen to BBC Radio Leicester's Dulcie Dixon show from 13 March which is on iPlayer for seven days. It will be interesting to see how the programme of 20 March deals with the aftermath of the previous week's programme.
If you want to listen again to the programme of 13th March and it has gone from iPlayer we may be able to help you with a recording made by a well-wishers.
If you feel a comment to the BBC is in order it is easy to put a comment on the BBC website or ring up and leave a message. Every little helps.
This might be at a tangent but I saw this through Catholics For Equality and seemed to be in a similar vein of continuing to demonise LGBT people and the breathtaking mental gymnastics that people go through in order to be able to do this from a point of apparent sincerity.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.catholicleague.org/release.php?id=2108
The writer seems uninterested in trying to understand why a gay audience might have applauded but am I the only one for whom it seems blindingly obvious?
The linking theme must be an unwillingness to think, to question, to connect or to love their neighbour (and thereby to love God).