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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Queer'
She’s Gay and We’re Cool with That
October 25th, 2006 · 8 Comments · Lesbian, LGBT, Queer
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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Defining Sexuality
October 19th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Lesbian, LGBT, Queer
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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Gay partner receives social welfare allowance…grudgingly
October 12th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Irish Politics, KAL Case, LGBT, Queer, Same Sex Partnerships
Can someone please explain to the government the concept of ‘joined up’ thinking? On Tuesday the Department of Justice says it will be opting out of Brussels II/Rome II, yesterday the Governments Lawyers were saying that gay couples could not get married as marriage is special protection for opposite sex couples (subs. req.), that’s after […]
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Much More than the Recognition of a Canadian Marriage.
October 2nd, 2006 · Comments Off on Much More than the Recognition of a Canadian Marriage. · Irish Politics, KAL Case, Lesbian, LGBT, Queer, Same Sex Partnerships
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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