Categories: blogs
Tags: blog, gay marriage, Proposition 8, California, Father Geoff Farrow
Date: 09 October 2008 22:23:42
Following on from Auntie Doris's post earlier today, I wanted to flag up a new blog which I discovered today via Mad Priest's blog. Father Geoff Farrow is an openly gay Roman Catholic priest in California, who is writing about his inability to support his bishop's call to vote against gay marriage in the forthcoming vote in California. Whatever your views on the subject, please do go and read his opening post from a couple of days ago. Even if you disagree with him, I hope you'll agree with me that his grace and humility and pastoral heart are clear and need to be heard.
As many of my regular readers know, for my work I often end up reading some very conservative Christian blogs from the countries where I've been doing my research, which are currently being so shrill in their opposition towards and othering of "teh evil gayz" that it's doing my head in. It was such a relief to read Father Geoff's blog. It's not just my friends that the shrill blogs are hurting, it's my brothers and sisters in Christ. God help us all.