Rainforests and Gays
My disapproving ex-housemate suggested, inspired by the Pope’s latest crazy comments about homosexuality being an equally sized problem to climate change, that we design a wee app for the i-phone that measures your carbon footprint and compares it to your gay footprint. Simply by using the i-phone of course, you have stepped up your gayness. The Pope only uses Microsoft products. And it seems that as good as he is at writing theology, he sucks at engaging with the world in love.
It is probably a good sign that these comments, while condemning 2% of the world’s population for their sexual inclination, can be read as a signal that heterosexuality is finally, after 1800 years of ambiguity, a-ok in the eyes of the Vatican. Alternatively you could read the Bishop of Cloyne’s refusal to resign after the report on sexual abuse in his diocese on the same page in your newspapers as the reports on Benedict XVI’s comments about homosexuality and hang your head in despair. At Christmas, Christians continue to be idiots.
We are saved by faith; not work, effort nor merits, folks! Surely this is a case for rejoicing.
Instead of filling your head with sillyness, read this brilliant article. If G-A-Y are the three letters we have to remember if we are to save the world, 3-5-0 are the three digits. Climate change is not a myth. This Mother Jones piece expertly and safely and reliably explains the what and how of the response we should already have started to make. We have to start taxing carbon up the ying yang (with a likewise levy on male cosmetics of course!).
Your Correspondent, Trying to be the kind of Christian that doesn’t make you tired of Christians
You are the kind of Christian that makes me think that it’s OK to remain a Chrisian, because I can still be a Christian and think that often other, other Christians, make me hang my head in despair. There was a compliment buried in there somewhere.