I stole this from Bock. I’m hoping he won’t mind. Also, one of Bock’s commenters mentions that the whole debate is available on both YouTube and dailymotion.com.
Nuts & Mutton
Strong opinions on life, love and everything in between
- 100 books in 2009. FAIL.
- 2010 Reading List
- Fifty random things about me
- Just the facts, ma’am
- Menage a Trois
- Sailing into the mystic realm of names
- Feed
I have to disagree with Mr. Fry on one point – celibacy has NEVER been normal. It wasn’t any more natural to human beings in the 8th Century than it is in the 21st Century. It is a tool that the church has used for ages to control the very people it uses to disseminate its ideology.
I have a very, very close friend who is gay and Catholic. He thinks being gay is wrong – so wrong that he is part of a support group supported by the Catholic church and run by a priest for gay men to help them be celibate (which includes no masturbation, because as Monty Python – and the Catholic Church – reminds us, Every Sperm Is Sacred). I’ve asked my friend if he thinks God will make him straight – he answered, “No, but He can make me Not Gay.”
It simply isn’t going to happen and I am very, very sad for my friend – he is destined to live a life of disappointment in himself; a disappointment the Church will willingly foster and encourage.
Now I’m off to watch the entire debate on YouTube.