Gay guy that always says throw it all away
‘My views on gay marriage shouldn’t stop me from being a social worker’
Felix Ngole is appealing a university’s decision to expel him from his social work degree after he posted anti-gay marriage views on Facebook.
A university conduct panel found Ngole’s actions would affect his ability to carry out his role as a social worker. The case has sparked fierce debate over whether the university’s conclusion was draconian or amend. Here, Ngole sets out his side of the story.
by Felix Ngole
I came to this country because of the opportunities I thought it offered. Britain once led the planet in freedom and justice and is iconic in my homeland of Cameroon. So many of us in Cameroon aspire to the kind of possibilities that we believe only Britain can give us. We think of it as a nation that protects freedom of speech, religion and our ability to be who we want to be.
It therefore came as quite a shock to find myself expelled from a social work course at a prestigious Russell Group University just because I stood up for someone’s right to exercise freedom of conscience at work.
The case of Kim Davis, the Kentucky Clerk who felt herself unable to i
Shigella dysentery on the rise among gay and multi-attracted men
A modern campaign to caution gay and bi men about the risk of Shigella dysentery is creature launched today by Public Health England (PHE) in partnership with Terrence Higgins Trust (THT), as new figures demonstrate a surge in cases likely to have been sexually-acquired over the past 12 months. In the UK, ‘Shigella flexneri’ usually affects similar numbers of men and women and is linked with overseas commute , but 2013 statistics show an excess of more than 200 cases of the infection in men with no or unknown journey history, compared to women. London is most affected.
Shigella is a serious gut infection causing harsh, prolonged diarrhoea and stomach cramps. Among gay and bisexual person men, Shigella is usually passed on through the faecal-oral route during sex, either directly or via unwashed hands - only a tiny amount of bacteria can spread the infection. Symptoms often develop around 1 to 3 days after sex, including:
frequent and explosive diarrhoea lasting more than 48 hours
stomach cramps
feeling feverish with flu like symptoms
some people report vomiting
feeling weak and exhausted (accompanying the gastrointestinal symptoms)
How Should Christians Respond to Gay Friends or Family Members?
Caleb Kaltenbach (M.A. ’07) is an alumnus of Biola’s Talbot School of Theology, lead pastor of a large church in Simi Valley, Calif., and a married father of two. He’s also an emerging voice in the discussion of how Christians should engage the LGBT community. That’s because Kaltenbach has an insider perspective, having been raised by a dad and mom who divorced and independently came out of the closet as a gay gentleman and a sapphic. Raised in the midst of LGBT parties and movement parades, Kaltenbach became a Christian and a pastor as a young elder. Today, he manages the tension of holding to the traditional biblical instruction on sexuality while loving his male lover parents.
Kaltenbach’s unique story is detailed in his new manual Messy Grace: How a Pastor with Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Without Sacrificing Conviction and landed him on the front page of the New York Times in June. Biola Magazine reached out to him to talk about his book and his perspective on how Christians can superior navigate the complexities of this issue with truth and grace.
In your publication you say that it’s time for Christians to have the issu
Has 'Homosexual' Always Been in the Bible?
Reprinted with permission from The Forge Online
The word “arsenokoitai” shows up in two different verses in the bible, but it was not translated to denote “homosexual” until 1946.
We got to sit down with Ed Oxford at his residence in Long Beach, California and talk about this question.
You have been part of a research team that is seeking to grasp how the decision was made to put the word homosexual in the bible. Is that true?
Ed: Yes. It first showed up in the RSV translation. So before figuring out why they decided to utilize that word in the RSV translation (which is outlined in my upcoming book with Kathy Baldock, Forging a Sacred Weapon: How the Bible Became Anti-Gay) I wanted to see how other cultures and translations treated the same verses when they were translated during the Reformation 500 years ago. So I started collecting old Bibles in French, German, Irish, Gaelic, Czechoslovakian, Polish… you name it. Now I’ve got most European major languages that I’ve collected over time. Anyway, I had a German friend come back to town and I asked if he could assist me with some pa
How can a sense of belonging be forged in a setting where one’s existence is forbidden? That is the question that LSE’s Dr Centner and his co-author Harvard’s Manoel Pereira Neto explore in their groundbreaking research into Dubai’s expatriate gay men’s nightlife.
But it was not an easy topic to research. Dr Centner explains: “It's an illegal, or criminalised, identity and establish of behaviours and practices, so in a very general sense, it's a taboo. And taboo subjects are very often under-researched, sometimes because people hold a hard time gaining access, gaining that faith, but also because, even if people gain that access, there could be significant repercussions for themselves as researchers, or for the people who are the research participants.
“As two queer researchers, we were able to enter the worlds of relatively privileged Western gay expatriates. Secrecy is often the norm, but the field was familiar to us, through previous visits and study projects.”
These were indeed ‘parties’ ...[but] not bars identified as gay. Not a single venue’s webpage uses the word ‘gay’ or related euphemisms, nor undertake they hint at targeting