{"id":331,"date":"2007-07-28T13:46:17","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T17:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2007-07-28T13:46:17","modified_gmt":"2007-07-28T17:46:17","slug":"conservatives-and-homophobes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives and homophobes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damian Thompson <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/ukcorrespondents\/holysmoke\/july07\/anglicancommunionover.htm\">has been examining<\/a> the problem of homosexuality and the Anglican Communion on his <em>Telegraph<\/em> blog, and this has led to at least one delightful misunderstanding: commentator &#8220;Terwilliger&#8221; writes<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"loony\"><p>You are quite correct Damian but sometimes it is necessary to put all pleasantries aside so that others are <span class=\"caps\">QUITE <\/span>aware of what they are being asked to approve of. I realize that some people call it &#8220;love&#8221; but honestly, if one explains objectively what&#8217;s really going on, most of us wouldn&#8217;t dare suggest this sexual lifestyle as commenable for anyone. As you saidm, it is &#8220;disgusting&#8221; but that should not surprise anyone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I wanted to add a comment myself, urging Damian to read <em>The Line of Beauty:<\/em> <span class=\"sane\">a shocking book about the misadventures of a young gay Oxford graduate from the provinces who falls in with Conservative politicians in Notting Hill &#8212; you would not believe what these people get up to<\/span> but the site demanded I register. It is a pity, though: I would like to imagine a long queue of po-faced commentators trying tastefully to open Damian&#8217;s eyes to the horrors of the gay lifestyle.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damian Thompson has been examining the problem of homosexuality and the Anglican Communion on his Telegraph blog, and this has led to at least one delightful misunderstanding: commentator &#8220;Terwilliger&#8221; writes You are quite correct Damian but sometimes it is necessary &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=331\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=331\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}