Articles by Ruth Owen

4 October 2007
Christians are ‘anti-homosexual’ according to US poll + A survey in the United States conducted by the Barna Group between 2004 and now has found that both Christians and non-Christians have a 'bad impression' of Christianity.The religion is also waning in popularity with a rapid increase in people describing themselves as 'non-Christian' since the same poll was conducted in 1996.Surveying 440 Christians and the same amount of non-believers, nine out of ten non-Christians found Christians too "anti-homosexual."
4 October 2007
Tipping the Velvet author’s third TV adaptation + Sarah Waters' second book, Affinity, is to be adapted by Pride and Prejudice screenwriter Andrew Davies.This is the third time a Waters book has been turned into television following Tipping The Velvet (2002) and Fingersmith, (2005) both for the BBC.Affinity is a gothic ghost story of a Victorian girl who finds herself attracted to a female inmate at Millbank, one of London's harshest prisons.
4 October 2007
Gay penguins top of the challenged book list + A children's book about two male penguins who hatched and raised a young female named 'Tango' has topped a list of the most challenged books in public and school libraries in the US.And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell is based of the true story of Roy and Silo, who formed a couple in New York's Central Park Zoo.They attempted to hatch a rock, which was replaced by a rejected egg from a mixed gender couple by zookeepers.
4 October 2007
Gay bishops and same sex unions ‘inappropriate’ says report + A report to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has given assurances that bishops around the world will 'exercise restraint' in ordaining any more openly gay bishops, and not bless same sex marriages.But the report, published yesterday by the Joint Standing Committee, which influences policy within the Anglican communion, has proved unsatisfactory to both sides by avoiding condoning or condemning gays.
4 October 2007
Firefighters fined for disturbing cruising ground activity 41 A group of firefighters have been disciplined over an incident on Bristol Downs where they "interrupted" four gay men in a cruising ground.They shone their torches from their engine into bushes catching men engaged in outdoor sex.One of the men caught by the torch light then filed a complaint under advice from HIV charity Terrence Higgins Trust.

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