GAY TRUTH

'He thinks it's faith but -  It tastes like cardboard, and it smells like hate."  So BBC Scotland has described Holy Communion and Catholics in its latest digital stream for young people in Scotland on homophobia. The priest holds up a Mini-Cheddar in a parody of the Host for a Catholic parishioner to receive. The presenter goes on to suggest Jesus 'wasted his time teaching small minds that love is no sin'. All this in a week when a Sunday Times poll found 20% of Catholics reported personally experiencing abuse or prejudice towards their faith and recent government figures on religiously aggravated crime showed 57% of it is now directed at Catholics, an increase of 14% ... and we all wonder why!!!

Scottish Government logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) EDINBURGH – BBC Scotland has seen an e-mail sent between Scottish civil servants that shows Scottish National Party ministers are concerned about the far-reaching effect on civil freedoms of a proposed redefinition of marriage . They express concerns that “ gay marriage ,” will impact the freedom of citizens, particularly religious ministers, to object to and refuse to participate unless substantial changes are made to the UK ’s Equalities Act 2010. The email says that the government “may announce” that they will proceed with same-sex “marriage,” both for civil and religious ceremonies, but not until the Act is “amended to provide full protection for individual celebrants who are opposed to same-sex ceremonies, even if their religious body has decided to opt in to carrying out such ceremonies”. “[T]he government recognises the need to provide appropriate protections for some in Scottish society who are against same sex m