Roman Catholic Bishops in the USA will debte a new document on Pastoral Guidelines for ‘Ministry to Persons with Homosexual Inclination’ when they meet next month. Much of it is the usual ‘love the sinner hate the sin’ type of stuff but there are new challenges for them to face including a policy affirming the […]
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The Minister for State Sile De Valera launched a campagin against homophobic bullying today. Read more about it at BelongTo’s Website. Well done to them and the Equality Authority for a really important campaign and kudos to the Minister also for launching it. Her speech is available here. In the case of homophobic bullying, young […]
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Sarah posts that the finding that most surprised her in the ESRI/RCSI research on sexuality was the sexual behaviour of gay men. Here I found a fact which totally stunned me: 70% of gay men reported never having anal sex and 27% of gay men reported never having oral sex. What are they doing? Not […]
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Yesterday the state called Professor Patricia Casey to give evidence on their behalf in the case being taken against them by Dr. Katherine Zappone and Dr. Ann Louise Gilligan. Professor Casey is a psychiatrist at the Mater Hospital and also based at UCD. Professor Casey is a member of the Irish Catholic Churches Commission on […]
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2004 19616 P ZAPPONE & ANOR V REVENUE COMMISSIONERS Tuesday 3rd October 2006 will see the beginning of one of the most important legal challenges in Irish lesbian and gay history. Katherine Zappone and Ann Louise Gilligan are challenging the decision of the Revenue Commissioner not to recognise their Canadian Marriage. The case is about […]
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