Re: Prevent The Church Hijacking Our Schools : Thu Apr 26, 2012 1:31 pm  

Yeah, I never did get an address to send that dry cleaning bill to...


Age is a great castrator though, apparently.

Re: Prevent The Church Hijacking Our Schools : Thu Apr 26, 2012 1:38 pm  

Mintball wrote:

That used to be (and probably still is) my mother's approach. At least she pretty much seemed to accept that homosexuals are born, if you will. I really used to hear the 'God made Adam and Eve and not Adam and Steve' thing, plus comments about how 'dogs don't do it'.

Both of which (if one believes in a god who is creator) are therefore false.

My father's improved a bit, but as I've said before, it's not that many years ago that I was sitting in my parents' living room when my mother said, pretty much out of the blue and with a slightly nervous titter: "Well we know it's wrong, but at least you know what men do, but what do lesbians do?"

I managed to skate over that. In her seventies, if she couldn't think of just a couple of things, then I wasn't going to start broadening her horizons. It's actually rather sad, really.

I've heard 'they should be put on a island and shot' (apparently that will stop it) a few times, although my grandmother has started defending the rights of homosexuals to her bigoted brother I can't help thinking she wouldn't have if my cousin hadn't have told her she was gay or if my grandfather was still alive.

Re: Prevent The Church Hijacking Our Schools : Thu Apr 26, 2012 1:57 pm  

Sheldon wrote:

bigoted brother

Sounds like an idea for a TV show.

"Day four in the Bigoted Brother house and Nick Griffin is spitroasting Gillian Duffy with Nigel Farage..."

Re: Prevent The Church Hijacking Our Schools : Thu Apr 26, 2012 2:01 pm  

Rock God X wrote:

Sounds like an idea for a TV show.

"Day four in the Bigoted Brother house and Nick Griffin is spitroasting Gillian Duffy with Nigel Farage..."

The pope would win it!

Re: Prevent The Church Hijacking Our Schools : Thu Apr 26, 2012 4:22 pm  

Sheldon wrote:

I can't help thinking she wouldn't have if my cousin hadn't have told her she was gay

Why did your grandmother need your cousin to tell her she was gay, didn't she know herself?

Re: Prevent The Church Hijacking Our Schools : Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:59 pm  

cod'ead wrote:

Why did your grandmother need your cousin to tell her she was gay, didn't she know herself?

It was a awkward conversation.

Re: Prevent The Church Hijacking Our Schools : Wed May 16, 2012 4:26 am  

At least business has come in to rescue Gove's school bible plan Good to see that the Education Secretary has got his priorities right, his plan to send each primary and secondary school in the country a copy of the St James bible, has been rescued thanks to tory donors chipping in. Even better that these bibles are written in 17th century English, I bet the kids can hardly wait to start reading them. I wonder when the first one will appear on eBay?

At least business has come in to rescue Gove's school bible plan Good to see that the Education Secretary has got his priorities right, his plan to send each primary and secondary school in the country a copy of the St James bible, has been rescued thanks to tory donors chipping in. Even better that these bibles are written in 17th century English, I bet the kids can hardly wait to start reading them. I wonder when the first one will appear on eBay?

Re: Prevent The Church Hijacking Our Schools : Wed May 16, 2012 5:06 am  

Few, I thought they'd waste peoples time and money.

Re: Prevent The Church Hijacking Our Schools : Wed May 16, 2012 7:57 am  

Anyone got the stats on how many schools didn't have a Bible and thus desperately needed one?

Re: Prevent The Church Hijacking Our Schools : Wed May 16, 2012 8:15 am  

Mintball wrote:

Anyone got the stats on how many schools didn't have a Bible and thus desperately needed one?

You're missing the point: this one has a foreward written by Gove himself. I'm frankly amazed that our schools have coped without such a literary gem as long as they have.