…had better watch his back: This is about the extraordinary case of Rev Dr Bernard Randall and the latest developments in his story. In 2019, Dr Randall, an ordained Church of England (CofE) minister, was working without any issues at Trent College in Derbyshire. The college had a CofE chapel and a CofE …
Category: LGBTQ+
Aug 27 2024
“A Little Piece Of Paper”
Now and then, a statement made in the present echoes a statement from the past that had grave repercussions. Here’s the recent statement: Kelley Robinson, President of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), spoke at a kickoff event for the Democratic National Convention last week and denigrated the Bill of Rights, calling it …
Jul 31 2024
Triumphalism
The obscenities and blasphemies during the Olympics’ opening ceremonies have apparently galvanized significant resistance to the previously unstoppable march of the LGBTQ forces. Of course, those forces are trying to act as if nothing out of the ordinary has occurred. They must; they didn’t expect that decent persons would rise up on our hind …
Jul 28 2024
A Few Words From Seneca Lake
I’m rather far away from my usual keyboard, so please pardon any typos. The world, or a great part of it, is agog over the grotesquerie committed on the 2024 Olympics opening night. Billions, quite literally, were insulted and demeaned. The odds are that you, Gentle Reader, are one of them. First: Yes, it was …
Jun 14 2024
Disallowed Pride (UPDATED)
Pride Month! When all the freaks fly their flags boldly, even aggressively. But you know who’s not allowed to have pride? Heterosexuals: An Ohio news station employee was fired for posting a joke about “straight pride” in response to LGBTQ Pride Month in June. “Celebrate straight pride,” the post says. “It’s natural, …
Dec 09 2023
Dispatches From The War On Normality
The guiding principle is only this: If it’s normal and healthful, they hate it and want to destroy it: A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court by one Denver Public Schools father alleging his two children have been denied their First Amendment rights to have a “straight pride” flag in school may stand …
Nov 19 2023
The Three-Percenters
Among the interesting aspects of a constantly-changing lexicon is the process by which a word becomes attached to a particular function or occupation, the two never thereafter to be parted. A pattern of common usage, if it persists long enough, can separate the word from its original meaning. That’s the way languages work: a …
Jun 24 2023
Mask Droppings
(Alternately, “Leftist Droppings”) This article is highly informative: Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and a group of 14 other attorneys general penned a letter to Target CEO Brian Cornell this week expressing concern about the store’s removal of some of its Pride products. Target lit a media firestorm last month when …
Jun 16 2023
An Early-Morning Thought
This comes from Father Paul Scalia: Armando Valladares was initially one of Fidel Castro’s supporters. He even got a job in the Office of the Ministry of Communications for the Revolutionary Government. But in 1960 things changed drastically. It happened that everybody else in his workplace had placed a I’m with Fidel sign …
Jun 15 2023
When They Realize They’ve Overplayed Their Hand
…they immediately try to squelch conversation about it – “they” being the anti-American Left, of course. One aspect of that is the denigration of any group that coalesces around the salient they’ve misguidedly created. Such a group is in the news today: To its members, it’s a grassroots army of “joyful warriors” who …
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