CIT Blog

In “The New Politics of Sex: the sexual revolution, civil liberties and the growth of government power” Professor Stephen Baskerville Professor of Government at Patrick Henry College, Virginia, offers an analysis that suggests that such a proposal as the above is the tip of an iceberg of the ever increasing power of state authorities to police activities that are beyond its competence.

Many have articulated the idea that the binary sexuality model dividing the world of mankind into ‘gay’ and ‘straight’ (with a few ‘bi’) is past its sell-by date and has outlived its usefulness given the rise of notions of sexual fluidity. I am finding it increasingly difficult to stay within the semantic boundaries such models have forced us to operate in.

David Bennett’s response to the Nashville Statement, “Why I call myself a gay celibate Christian – and say ‘no’ to Nashville” provides a helpful perspective on the new Biblical anthropology promoted by ‘celibate gay’ Christians. The article is important because it reveals a particular anthropological perspective that is faulty, in my view.

Dermot O’Callghan comments on the battle for “gay” marriage in Northern Ireland. Letter published in Belfast Telegraph Thursday 16th August, 2017.

You have indicated formally your view that the onus is on therapists to prove that their work is ethical. Within reasonable limits, it should be the other way around. Nothing would hamper vital research more than a ban on new approaches until they had been ‘proven’.