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Thursday 17 December 2009

Christians obsessing about gay sex – yet again

The UK’s Christian Institute – a bunch of tossers who seem to obsess about little other than homosexuality – seem upset that Gordon Brown is seeking to get civil partnerships harmonised with other EU countries.

Their press release doesn’t exactly slam the move, but the fact that they’ve put one out at all smacks of criticism. They don’t put out press releases when our government seeks to harmonise other laws.

“These negotiations form part of Gordon Brown’s campaign for ‘gay rights’ recognition across Europe,” says the press release. Note the scare quotes on “gay rights”.

The press release lists one or two things Gordon Brown has done for gay rights, and says that “earlier this year he invited the organisers of a controversial month-long drive to teach schoolchildren about homosexuality to a reception at 10 Downing Street” (emphasis mine).

Teach?

This morning, children, we’re going to tell you what to do with your . . .

I think you’ll find that the teaching is about relationships, much as the teaching about heterosexual unions will be. It’s probably a recognition that same-sex relationships are a fact of life (God-given, a Christian might argue, since the Christian God is responsible for everything, understands everything, sees everything).

But organisations like this can use Daily Mail scare tactics when it suits them. “Teach” suggests “this is how you do it”. “Schoolchildren” has a more emotive reaction in a reader than “young people”, because one tends to think of six-, seven- and eight-year-olds rather than the whole spectrum, five to eighteen, with different emphases on aspects of the subject for different ages.

It’s strange what people find to obsess about – especially Christians, who claim to care about the world and its woes.

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