Today In The Gay

[c9]

• 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.

Comments

[bartok.livejournal.com]

not so much the presence of the registry, but the fact that it went 800-million over budget or something?!

of course the other thing I may be finding is that Canada in general is a little over-regulated. I've often found that I tend to like left-leaning social reforms (drug/coupling reform for instance), but economically a little more centrist (deregulation of the health sector might not be the end of the world *hides in shelter*...)

[c9.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm finding myself fairly libertarian sometimes. I'm still figuring out my beliefs on health care, but certainly there are a lot of regulations that don't need to exist.