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polonius, Belle Waring's post on Crooked Timber linking to a multi-part series in the Washington Post (1, 2, parts 3 and 4 to come) describing the special hells experienced by those teenagers unfortunate enough to be a) non-heterosexual and b) born in the American heartland.
On a related note, the Catholic Church's reaction to Spain's impending legalization of same-sex marriage is unfortunate:
I'd like to believe that the "virus" reference was made innocently. For the time being, I'll echo Sinéad O'Connor and say that it's time to fight the real enemy, whether in Oklahoma or Saudi Arabia.
polonius, Belle Waring's post on Crooked Timber linking to a multi-part series in the Washington Post (1, 2, parts 3 and 4 to come) describing the special hells experienced by those teenagers unfortunate enough to be a) non-heterosexual and b) born in the American heartland.On a related note, the Catholic Church's reaction to Spain's impending legalization of same-sex marriage is unfortunate:
Juan Antonio Martinez Camino, spokesman for the Spanish Bishops Conference, said the church had nothing against homosexuals but feels a union of two people of the same sex is simply not a marriage.
Allowing this would create "a counterfeit currency in the body of society," Martinez Camino said in an interview on Spanish National Television.
Such legislation, he said, is like "imposing a virus on society, something false that will have negative consequences for social life."
I'd like to believe that the "virus" reference was made innocently. For the time being, I'll echo Sinéad O'Connor and say that it's time to fight the real enemy, whether in Oklahoma or Saudi Arabia.
