Former Supreme Court judge Catherine McGuinness has welcomed recent criticism of sectarianism within the Church of Ireland by Archbishop of Dublin and Glendalough Michael Jackson. However, she said she had never heard the term “polyester Protestants” to describe those who were members of the church by conviction. [Continue Reading]
Changing Attitude Ireland Lecture Marks 20 Years Since Decriminalisation
27 October 2013
Changing Attitude Ireland marked the 20th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Ireland with a public lecture in St Ann’s Church, Dawson Street, yesterday, October 26. The lecture was delivered by Mrs Justice Catherine McGuinness and afterwards tributes were paid to Senator David Norris for his courage and leadership in the pursuit of the decriminalisation of same sex relations. [Continue Reading]
Photos: Changing Attitude Ireland AGM public lecture
27 October 2013
Tributes were paid to Senator David Norris for his courage and leadership in pioneering gay rights in Ireland following the Changing Attitude Ireland public lecture in St Ann’s Church, Dawson Street, on Saturday October 27. [Continue Reading]
Irish Times: ‘There is a certain combat and indeed violence deeply embedded in theology’
26 October 2013
There was a little of Lady Macbeth in the reaction of some in the Church of Ireland to Archbishop Michael Jackson’s recent observations on sectarianism in Dublin and Glendalough. It was just a mite too upset. You will recall how Lady Macbeth on being told of the murder of Duncan, King of Scotland, at her castle, an act in which she ably assisted, betrayed herself by asking: “What, in our house?” As if. Sectarianism among the decent, God-fearing Anglicans (polyester, genetic, whatever) of Dublin and Glendalough Whoever would suggest such a thing? [Continue Reading]
The Irish News: Lives remembered – Rev Mervyn Kingston
24 August 2013
If there was a theme that resonated throughout Mervyn Kingston’s Church of Ireland ministry, it was ‘reaching out’. In parishes across Belfast, Down and the Armagh/Louth border, the gay cleric stretched out a hand of friendship and understanding wherever he went. In south Armagh, the east Belfast Protestant developed a love of the Irish language – he would often recite the Lord’s Prayer as Gaeilge – as he worked to bring communities together. [Continue Reading]
Revd. Mervyn Kingston, R.I.P.
3 August 2013
Revd. Mervyn Kingston, co-founder of Changing Attitude Ireland, died peacefully at home in North Down, on Friday 2nd August, 2013, after a long battle with cancer. From Pink News: “Rev Kingston was a pioneer of the gay Christian movement in Ireland since the early 1980s as well as a member of the Northern Ireland Gay Rights Association (NIGRA). He served in a number of parishes in the Church of Ireland, his final one being as rector of the Creggan and Ballymascanlon (1990-2003) which he retired from in 2003 following a diagnosis of cancer. In that same year he co-founded Changing Attitude Ireland (CAI).”
[Continue Reading]
Changing Attitude Ireland stall at the General Synod
30 May 2013
Alison Finch and Canon Charles Kenny at the CAI stall, General Synod, May 2013 [Continue Reading]
International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia
1 May 2013
Changing Attitude Ireland services for the 2013 International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia. [Continue Reading]
Guardian: Unionists defeat Northern Irish gay marriage bill
29 April 2013
Unionist politicians have defeated a Sinn Féin bid to create marriage equality for gay couples in Northern Ireland. The votes of the Democratic Unionist party and Ulster Unionist party in the Stormont Assembly helped defeat a Sinn Féin motion backed by the SDLP, Alliance and the Green party. But their defeat of the proposed bill sets the scene for a legal challenge in both the British and European courts against the continued ban on gay marriage in part of the UK. [Continue Reading]
