Like mothers’ love, God’s love is unconditional – for gay people too! Mothers’ Day sermon for a Family Service by Canon Ginnie Kennerley It’s very good to be with you all this Mothers’ Day – though what with the clocks going forward and an early morning service to conduct it was a very short […]
Church Committee On Sexuality Meets CAI
23 March 2014
The Church of Ireland ‘Select Committee on Sexuality” has met with a delegation from the Church’s pro-gay group Changing Attitude Ireland (CAI). The meeting took place today Tuesday 18th March at the Emmaus Centre in Swords, County Dublin. The Select Committee on Sexuality was established by the Church of Ireland General Synod last year, […]
Talk by Malcolm Macourt at the Church of Ireland Tripartite Diocesan discussion on sexuality
15 February 2014
Talk by Malcolm Macourt at the Church of Ireland Tripartite Diocesan (Limerick, Clogher, Tuam) discussion on sexuality held in Claremorris, County Mayo on 15th February 2014. [Continue Reading]
Irish Times: Ireland is continuing to fail its gay teachers in the classroom
11 February 2014
It is to be hoped that following their impassioned speeches in the Dáil last week about the cruel realities of life as gay men in Ireland that TDs Jerry Buttimer and John Lyons will hold their seats at the next election. What they said prompted the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, to say on RTÉ Radio 1’s This Week programme last Sunday that “the gay community in Ireland has suffered enormously. When I heard the debates in the Dáil . . . what do I say when I hear somebody spat at them? That’s a horrendous thing to happen to anybody.” [Continue Reading]
Address at the Memorial Service for the Revd Mervyn Kingston
8 February 2014
This was one of three adresses celebrating the life of the Reverend George Mervyn Kingston at a memorial service held at St George’s Church, Belfast on 8 February 2014. Mervyn was a wonderful priest, a loyal friend and an unlikely prophet, whose prophetic ministry was particularly concerned with reconciliation between Northern Ireland’s churches and communities. He co-founded Changing Attitude Ireland with his husband and partner, Dr Richard O’Leary. [Continue Reading]
Video: Panti Bliss’ Noble Call at the Abbey Theatre
2 February 2014
“My name is Panti and for the benefit of the visually impaired or the incredibly naïve, I am a drag queen, a performer, and an accidental and occasional gay rights activist.” [Continue Reading]
Church of Ireland Gazette: Suicide among gay people
13 December 2013
As the Director of Cara- Friend, an LGBT mental health organisation, it was with particular interest that I noted the recent letters of the Revd Andrew Rawding and the Revd Patrick Burke (Gazette, 8th and 22nd November). In May 2013, I gave a presentation to a well attended fringe meeting of the Church of Ireland General Synod in Armagh which discussed the particular evidence for Church influenced poor mental health amongst many LGBT people. [Continue Reading]
Bishop Colton Seeks Advice and Support of Lesbian and Gay People in ‘The Listening Process’ in Cork, Cloyne and Ross
26 November 2013
In a letter to the people of the Church of Ireland Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, written earlier this month, and to be published in the Diocesan Magazine next weekend, the Bishop, Dr Paul Colton, requests lesbian and gay people, their friends and families, to advise him on how best to put in place ‘the listening process’ for the Diocese. [Continue Reading]
Church of Ireland Gazette: Suicide among gay people
8 November 2013
I attended the ‘Suicide Prevention and Pastoral Care’ seminar organised recently by the Irish Churches Peace Project in Londonderry. For the panel discussion, I asked how the Churches intended to prevent suicide among people who don’t feel accepted by Churches, like gay people. [Continue Reading]
