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‘DUBL WAS NO CY FOR GAY YOUNG MEN’ – THE FATHER TED STAR WHO THRIVED LONDON
”)The show’s treatment of bishops is perhaps where gets the clost to a relig crique of some is only one exchange the show relatg to homosexualy, which Ted, aaid of offendg a gay televisn producer, stammers out awkward praise for the “whole rough and tumble of homosexual activy, ” and proces to nervoly equate the church’s stance on the matter to the old belief that the earth was flat. It argu that spe the claims of wrers Graham Lehan and Arthur Mathews that theirs is a policized athetic, the seri engag wh and stabilis Catholic doctre on issu such as homosexualy and ntraceptiv by makg them the target of satire. Il fa valoir que, malgré ce qu’en disent lrs trs Graham Lehan et Arthur Mathews, la série t x pris avec (et déstabilise) la doctre tholique sur s qutns tell que l’homosexualé et la ntraceptn, qui y viennent s objets page.
However, although the programme emerged at a time when the Catholic Church Ireland was embroiled a seri of sndals Mary Kenny scrib how “on one Monday November 1994, the three leadg stori on RTÉ, the natnal televisn work, were the polil repercsns followg the Brendan Smyth se, the llapse and ath of a Dubl prit a homosexual sna club, and the nvictn of a Galway prit for a sexual asslt on a young man, all one news bullet2”.
In “Song for Europe” (Season 2), for example, Dougal and Ted enter a song ntt and Charl, the producer of the show, explas that he is a gay relatnship. ” After all, the Catholic Catechism nounc homosexual acts as “trsilly disorred […] ntrary to the natural law […] unr no circumstance n they be approved”, while the 1986 “Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons” by the then Cardal Ratzger (now Pope Benedict XVI) siarly scrib homosexual clatn as a “strong tenncy orred towards an trsic moral evil42”.