Contents:
- ‘DUBL WAS NO CY FOR GAY YOUNG MEN’ – THE FATHER TED STAR WHO THRIVED LONDON
- WHO ARE STEVE O PARENTS? MEET HIS FATHER TED & MOTHER DONNA GAY GLOVER
- ‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
‘DUBL WAS NO CY FOR GAY YOUNG MEN’ – THE FATHER TED STAR WHO THRIVED LONDON
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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”.
WHO ARE STEVE O PARENTS? MEET HIS FATHER TED & MOTHER DONNA GAY GLOVER
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”, leavg Ted tly tmped and Catholic moral thkg stabilized through this role reversal whereby the prit endors social liberalism while his gay parishner stead draws attentn to articl of fah. 42 Catechism of the Catholic Church, Part 3: Sectn 2: Chapter 2: Article 6, (accsed December 29, 2011); “Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons”. Tibul film, which acrdg to Dougal's acunt, has some gay sex acts .
‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
Ambiguoly Gay: Father Noel. He's super mp, and played by gay actor Graham Norton, but is merely characterised as beg annoygly hyperactive.