I now pronounce you husband and SUV

We bears (and gays) have been hearing fundamentalist Christians arguing against gay marriage for a while. One of the reasons they usually point out is that "marriage can only take place between a man and a woman" and if we allow other genres to marry, such would lead to a weird what's next, as in "humans marrying their pets" et al.  Another feature of born again Christians, like president George W. Bush, is their abhorrence of alcoholic beverages.

Well, I have eventually found the proof that they are really right in their appreciations. See what a combination of liquor and free marriage can lead to:

Angry Evangelicals

In another of their so godly and humble "freedom of speech for us" move, Scotland evangelicals got angry with Stonewall:

The nomination of two senior bishops as Bigot of the Year at tonight's Stonewall Awards has angered an evangelical group of Scottish Christians.
CARE Scotland said the nomination of the Bishop of Hereford and the Archbishop of Birmingham was an insult and in a letter to First Minister Alex Salmond called on the Scottish government to stop working with Stonewall.

It's so very typical from those bunches of hypocrites, demanding for freedoms for them but denying the rest of the world of all those freedoms - just go search for Voice of the Martyrs, the Southern Baptist Convention or whichever so proudly evangelical, pentecostalist or born again group of Truth Keepers; celebrating diversity by encouraging attacks on peoples other than their own community, then saying they're under direct fire whenever someone exposes their flaws and lies. I feel a deep sorrow for all the children raised in such households, doomed to play with toys such these, homeschooled and able to access only biased information not on every matter, with no taste of other love than that born again love in Jesus, never unconditional but subjected to the acceptance of their parents faith... And then they would still claim they're a church and not a cult.

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God's Wrath falling upon the UK - Again

It was a matter of time that some ultra-religious people (aka. senior Church of England bishops) blamed on the "immorality and greed of modern society", including "laws that have undermined marriage, including the introduction of pro-gay legislation", following the path marked by their USA colleagues on 9/11 and Katrina, for the late June UK floods.
Now that the UK got flooded again, I assume that those same voices could perhaps start claiming for Inquisitorial procedures to get the society rid of such evils, thus protecting the UK from terrible weather (and from climate change at the same time) in saecula saeculorum.
Meanwhile, Madrid's Archbishop, Cardinal Antonio Rouco Varela, must be still waiting for the gates of Hell to open nearby Madrid's downtown after same-sex marriage was legalized in Spain. But he might not wait too long, since the statue of the Fallen Angel has been for decades placed in the park of Retiro.

What's the current weight of the UK in the Commonwealth?

Last Tuesday, Pink News had a number of questions (reader submitted) thrown at PM Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom. The full interview can be read here. Anyway I'd remark one of the answers given by Brown, in regards to him having

announced an international strategy to promote (LGBT) rights overseas, which includes Britain's commitment to the universal decriminalization of homosexuality...

I'm not much informed on how the Commonwealth works, though I believe that such community includes former colonial territories of the British Empire, including Canada and Australia. The logical approach for a British government willing to deal with homophobia decriminalization of homosexuality in areas such as the West Indies and West and East Africa, India and Sri Lanka (anyone knows which countries in the Commonwealth, apart of the former three, have not laws against homosexuality?) would probably imply joining Canada and Australia into a lobbying politics. But to which extent would all three, or merely a single one of those countries (and in Australia there continues to happen some differences from state to state in terms of lgbt rights) could influence the rest of nations inside the Commonwealth?

The UK couldn't do much about challenging Akinola and the rest of Nigerian power players on the bill (full text here) they were to pass (which calls for a five-year imprisonment of people who engage "performs, witnesses, aids, or abets" a same-sex marriage, also of anyone involved in advocacy for gay and lesbian rights.

So what could be expectable from PM Gordon Brown? I honestly hope that it's something more than wishful thinking.