1. @michaelcoren, one of Canada's leading Catholic writers, leaves the church over its homophobia: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/religion/i-felt-a-hypocrite-author-michael-coren-on-why-he-left-the-catholic-church-for-anglicanism …
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2. Coren's conversion is small but telling sign of problems Catholic church faces as acceptance of gay rights becomes increasingly normative
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3. Coren is 1) a convert 2) traditionalist on liturgy & abortion 3) steeped in Catholic classics. Yet can't accept church's position on gays
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4. Anyone who knows Coren (we've met a few times) knows how central Catholicism is to his identity. Yet even he can't accept Church's stance
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5. As it happens, first time Coren and I talked it was about a great gay Catholic writer, Oscar Wilde.
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@bartleybabica I will say that there are Catholic (not just anglo-Catholic) themes in Wilde's work.
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@bartleybabica Fair enough. What's also interesting is cultural affinity between gayness & catholicism (both high church Anglican & RC)
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@bartleybabica So for gay men unhappy with rigid gender norming of middle class England, church seemed to offer alternative culture.
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