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Heroes: Gene Robinson

23 Apr 2012 / 0 Comments / in Heroes & Villains/by Editor

The Fearless Bishop.

Gene Robinson is one of the greatest activists of our time, and he is working to change the Church from within.

“I watched an astounding documentary about Robinson, Love Free or Die, and it changed the way I understood contemporary Christianity. It also changed the way I saw the place of LGBT Christians within the Church. That was down to the eloquence and the persuasiveness of Robinson.”

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Villains: pro ‘gay cure’ charity infiltrates government

20 Apr 2012 / 1 Comment / in Heroes & Villains/by Editor

Petition to Banish Homophobia from Government.

The charity CARE believes that there is such a thing as a ‘gay cure’, and it provides interns to MPs to make sure its message is heard.

“There is no place for this brand of thinking in a democracy. The idea that there is a is a ‘gay cure’ is a fiction borne from prejudice and fear.”

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Villains: The Ex-Gay Movement Strikes Back

  • The Core Issues Trust director, Mike Davidson
  • The Core Issues Trust director, Mike Davidson
12 Apr 2012 / 3 Comments / in Heroes & Villains/by Rebel Scum

War on the Buses

The organisation Core Issues Trust is paying for a pro “ex-gay” London bus ad campaign. But will anyone understand it? “Not gay! Post-gay and proud. Get over it.” Excuse me?

“I often explain to people what the term “ex-gay” is supposed to mean and they look at me like I have a screw loose. Which is as it should be.”

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Villains: Sophie Miriam Herold

26 Mar 2012 / 24 Comments / in Heroes & Villains/by Editor

“Peaceful blogger” calls for an end to the 10%

A very angry young woman has been waging a campaign against LGBT people and in her desperation invokes the final solution. Does anyone have a strait-jacket handy?

“I do not like to throw around words like sociopath but it seems that this disturbed young woman is exactly that.”

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Villains: The Conservative School of Diversion Tactics

14 Feb 2012 / 0 Comments / in Heroes & Villains/by Rebel Scum

Lady Warsi gets a state-funded holiday to the Vatican

Lady Warsi talks nonsense about Christianity and tries to divert attention from the dismantling of the NHS

The tactic of the current Christian Right is to cry victim, but what they really want is the right to persecute others using whatever biblical statute will do the job. And so Lady Warsi launches her attack on the secular mind.

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Villains: On US gay-conversion tactics … again

28 Jan 2012 / 0 Comments / in Heroes & Villains/by Rebel Scum

The US Christian Right are at it again, this week in London

The organisation Core Issues Trust is playing host to US Reparative Therapy speaker and claiming it is only trying to help people who do not want to be gay

They are interested in a promoting an alternate reality in which you wish for something and it is made so – as long as an appropriate Bible quotation is tacked onto the end.

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Villains: How British Christians are being Americanised

21 Jan 2012 / 0 Comments / in Heroes & Villains/by Rebel Scum

Now the mild-mannered British Christians are now acting like the US Christian Right

The Christian Institute are waging a war against the Politically Correct Brigade, who’ll stop you wearing a Cross and force you to watch lesbian soap operas.

Traditionally, the Americans have been the pit-bull terriers of Christ, tearing up everything in their path and crapping over the aftermath.

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Villains: Linda Harvey

01 Dec 2011 / 1 Comment / in Heroes & Villains/by Rebel Scum

There are no fairies at the bottom of the garden!

The bizarre world of Linda Harvey, where homosexuals do not exist and where homosexuals (even though they do not exist) are out to take away the rights of heterosexuals and Scout leaders.

Harvey assumes the mantle of Jesus’ PR, a role to which she adds her own particular insights, although I’m not sure that she has work-shopped her thoughts with the Boss …

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Villains: Tony the Messiah and the Anti-Gay U.S. Preachers

16 Mar 2010 / 1 Comment / in Heroes & Villains/by Rebel Scum

A critique of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation.

Why, asks Rebel Scum, is Tony Blair Faith Foundation forging links with the Christian Right in the United States? Is the soldier of Christ once again at war with the idea of democracy, and displacing it in favour of “faith factors”?

The militaristic Blair, a soldier of Christ, calls this latest mission a “faith offensive”. There is something rather apt about that phrase.

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On the bully

03 Oct 2009 / 2 Comments / in Heroes & Villains/by Rebel Scum

On the effects of the bully on children and adults.

The bully never goes away. The schoolyard bully, the celebrity bully, the political bully: from the street to the television their influence in insidious. Rebel Scum looks at what can be done about it.

The bully is a staple in the life of every school kid. And being bullied is an experience everyone goes through in one form or another – from run-ins with the boy who has status issues in the schoolyard through to the mainstream gay press telling you just what it means to be a ‘proper gay’.

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