I believe our church already limits weddings to members.
What kind of recognition is it they want? Does he think we can be forced to say they are “normal”? So what if we do? He still knows he isn’t.
I look forward to the day some member of the gay community stands before God and attempts to tell Him He was wrong. That is going to be fun to watch.
from 2006:
The wedding photograph of Barrie Drewitt and Tony Barlow on the internet web page, with the twins whose birth made them Britain’s first surrogate gay fathers, radiates affectionate pride.
Resplendent in matching outfits of cream silk, who could blame the multi-millionaire couple for showing off two of their three beautiful children, seven-year-olds Saffron and Aspen? After all, as Barrie told the Mail this week, ‘it’s a site used by many of our friends as a way to share information’.
No doubt it is, but a few moments trawling through the pages of Gaydar.com reveals that much of that ‘information’ and many of the accompanying images jar horribly with pictures of children. ‘Horny Fun Wanted’ proclaims one typical advertiser on the gay dating site, displaying a full frontal nude picture of himself for the delectation of passing browsers. Others express preferences for all kinds of unprintable activities.
Users are, disturbingly, asked to click a box to say whether they prefer safe sex. Every vital statistic is listed; often with eye-watering full-colour evidence. There is also a profusion of links to male escort agencies and hardcore gay porn sites.
Despite widespread condemnation from bodies such as children’s charity Kidscape, which described it as ‘asking for trouble’, the couple has insisted on keeping the children’s photographs posted.
Their own, relatively tame details on the site reveal a preference for ‘firemen, footballers, married men, military...and rugby players’, alongside a fetish for Speedo swimming trunks and suits.
Barrie, 37, and Tony, 42, are somewhat less open about their ages, which they claim to be 32. One suspects it is drama queen Barrie rather than the more taciturn Tony doing the talking when they inform potential new contacts: ‘Willing to try anything once!’ ‘Just looking for friends, no big deals, no tears, just loads of laughs and loads a fun!! Whatever, no camp guys, please. We don’t do camp guys well at all.’
The Drewitt-Barlows, as they style themselves, dismiss criticism as just another example of the homophobic media over-reacting.
“I want...” “I” “I” “I”
“It is a shame that we are forced to take Christians into a court to get them to recognise us.”
He added: “It upsets me because I want it so much – a big lavish ceremony, the whole works.....”
Galatians 6 7-8
7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.