Posts

Showing posts from September, 2009

Blair's Attitude Problem

Earlier this morning, thanks to Damian Thompson, I discovered that Tony Blair has recently given an interview to the magazine, Attitude. Aside from the puerile play-on-words I couldn't resist slipping into the title, the first thing that came to mind was our former Prime Minister stripping off for a gay "mag" - not a pleasant thought, I can promise you. Sadly, the reality of that interview is not so easy to dismiss as silly. In it, Tony Blair made it clear to the world that he thought the Holy Father should amend Church teaching on homosexuality (as if he could!). Our former Prime Minister, however, is not someone who struggles with the teaching on the area because he personally thinks it unjust - he and his, I'm sorry to say, abominable and revolting wife openly and proudly dissent on a variety of issues from contraception to abortion. Damian clearly points out the irony of a pro-abortionist giving moral lectures to the Roman Pontiff. "I believe all the