Today In The Gay

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• Today the Vatican released their new (and unsurprising) policy on allowing gay men to be priests. In short, no more flaming in the sachristy. Deep-seated homosexual tendencies, which the Vatican calls disordered, disqualify one. "Transitory tendencies" would be OK if you've been celibate for three years.
  
  The editor of the Catholic New Times estimates that 30-50% of priests in the Catholic Church are gay. And stated on CBC that 50% of Catholic churches are currently without a priest. Hmmm, good plan Benedict!
  
  
• Today the Canadian election started, and Stephen Harper, almost before the writ had left Martin's hand, was already talking about repealing equal marriage for same-sex couples. For pete's sake, is he stupid? I mean, seriously.

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Polls consistently show that Canadians are happy with the equal marriage law, and over two-thirds are sick of the issue entirely. Canada's religious right is tiny and ineffective (so far), compared to the US. And 50% of the Liberals' strategy against him 17 months ago was "he hates the gays!" If there's one thing he should have grasped by now... :)