MISSION STATEMENT ... To celebrate where it's deserved! ... To take the Michael out of institutions and individuals where it's deserved! ...
Recently I had occasion to prepare my gravestone epitaph:
GENE...
Educator, Novelist,
Humanitarian and Humorist
- TO KNOW HIM WAS TO LOVE HIM -
Rest in Peace
....... But while I am still walking the earth do not hesitate to contact me at:
bobbyslingshot8@gmail.com
The Curse of Baba Yaga From Mussourky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition'
Paul Gascoigne ... Wor Geordie's lost his Penga
Rev Ian Paisley ...
A selection of recordings of Rev Ian Paisley's speeches delivered in his 'Save Ulster from Sodomy' campaign
BOOK CHOICE
Granny Barkes Fell in Woolworths
Luxury
A print of any painting by Jack Vettriano
Tee! Hee! Hee! Chortle! Chortle!
Today the Feast of St. Bernardin of Siena...
Today the Feast of St. Bernardin of Siena (+1444), the most dynamic speaker of his era. He was deeply devoted to the Most Holy Name. Bernardin was a fierce preacher against the sin of sodomy.
For example:
“No sin in the world grips the soul as the accursed sodomy; this sin has always been detested by all those who live according to God.… Deviant passion is close to madness; this vice disturbs the intellect, destroys elevation and generosity of soul, brings the mind down from great thoughts to the lowliest, makes the person slothful, irascible, obstinate and obdurate, servile and soft and incapable of anything; furthermore, agitated by an insatiable craving for pleasure, the person follows not reason but frenzy.… They become blind and, when their thoughts should soar to high and great things, they are broken down and reduced to vile and useless and putrid things, which could never make them happy…. Just as people participate in the glory of God in different degrees, so also in hell some suffer more than others. He who lived with this vice of sodomy suffers more than another, for this is the greatest sin.” (Prediche volgari s. 39)
Monday, 18 May 2026
OVERHEARD IN HARRIS & HOOLE...
(An occasional feature)
27th April 2026
Myself, Mary Winterbourne, Tony of the Big Saloon and Frances 'Fanny' Dango got together this morning in Harris & Hoole. And surprise, surprise, Johnny Bluenote was able to join us. We had so much to discuss.
MARY WINTERBOURNE: Well, we all know why we are here today. Gene has been greatly distressed by false and malicious comments posted by Detterling about Gene's father and Great-uncle. We offer Gene our support and help in avenging this malice.
GENE: Yes Mary. Thank you all so much.
My father was a brave and honorable man. An RAF pilot during WWII he was stationed at bases at Killadeas and St Angelo on Lough Erne in County Fermanagh. He and his brave companions protected the essential North Atlantic convoys. When we were children he used to take myself and my late brother Paul for summer holidays in County Fermanagh. We explored the remains of those air force bases. Killadeas falls within the Roman Catholic parish of Devenish. In the parish graveyard there is a special section where seventeen RAF pilots are buried. It's so sad that those brave men gave their lives so that a renegade like Detterling now takes the freedom they fought for to abuse those deceased pilots and my father and his valiant companions who put their lives on the line every day. Bastard!
FRANCES 'FANNY' DANGO: Disgraceful. For me Detterling is the most slimy creep ever to crawl out of a Tyneside sewer.
JOHNNY BLUENOTE: The bar steward should have his ass repeatedly kicked all the way out to Wallsend.
GENE: And the way he traduced the memory of my Great-uncle Claude!
My Great-uncle Claude was a lovely, kind and generous man. For example, with great perspicacity he foresaw my future as a writer and made me a gift of a Remington manual typewriter when I went up to Oxford in 1975.
Yes he was a homosexual man but he was celibate all his life and a mainstay in his C of E parish in Richmond, Surrey.
TONY OF THE BIG SALOON: This cries out for revenge. I suggest Swashbuckling Mulligan be drafted in to write one of his devastating satires.
FRANCES 'FANNY' DANGO: How I loved that last satire! Remember how it ended! Detterling collapsed dead as a doornail on the sofa. A few minutes later Delia was laughing and joking with Gene on the phone and both were concocting some outrageous hanky-panky.
GENE: Yes folks. I will have a word with Swashbuckling Mulligan.
But, let us now be downhearted. Remember the great recent victory we have had with the defeat of the plans to bring assisted suicide to this green and pleasant land. Let us raise out drinks to that great victory.
ALL: Hip! Hip! Hooray!
GENE: Now let us raise our drinks and have three cheers for Cardinal Vincent Nichols and Richard Moth Archbishop of Westminster who led opposition to this evil bill.
ALL: Hip! Hip! Hooray!
GENE: Now let us raise our drinks and have three cheers for Dame Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury, who so strongly opposed this evil bill.
ALL: Hip! Hip! Hooray!
GENE: Now let us raise our drinks and have three cheers for the kick up the ass the failure of this bill has delivered to Detterling and his pinko liberal ilk.
ALL: Hip! Hip! Hooray!
GENE: Now let us raise our drinks and have three cheers for the kick up the ass the failure of this bill has delivered to that silly old bat Esther Rantzen.
ALL: Hip! Hip! Hooray!
GENE:
ASSISTED SUICIDE
IT SHALL NEVER BE
NOT IN MERRIE ENGLAND
LAND OF THE FREE.
SACRED HEART ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH GRAVEYARD
IRVINESTOWN, DEVENISH, COUNTY FERMANAGH
GRAVES of WWII RAF AIRMEN WHO LOST THEIR LIVES FOR OUR FREEDOM
(Detterling look at this photo and be overcome with shame)
Monday, 11 May 2026
Courage, Conviction, and the Culture of Death
What began as the "live and let live" slogan of the LGBT is ending in prison time for anyone who dares to say, "this is wrong," and "what you are doing is sinful."
Many years ago, I was told a joke that was not in particularly good taste, nor was it particularly funny. I’m going to retell it, irrespective of the aforementioned reasons for not doing so, because it illustrates something greatly ironic about the culture of death and the dictatorship of relativism in which we find ourselves.
A man to his friend: Why are you leaving the country?
Friend: They’ve made homosexuality legal and I want to get out of here before they make it compulsory.
I know it’s not funny, and I know it’s in highly questionable taste; but it does highlight a great irony. The irony is that homosexual practice has not been made compulsory, but endorsement of homosexual practice has been. Such is the intolerance of the dictatorship of relativism toward those who fail to show tolerance of the things that it says must be tolerated.
This intolerance in the name of tolerance, this Orwellian doublethink, is currently rampant, especially in Europe. In the United Kingdom, more than 12,000 people a year are being arrested for criticizing the government of Sturmführer Starmer on social media.
The fact that the dictatorship of relativism is wedded to the culture of death is evident in Iceland, which boasts of finding the Final Solution to the “problem” of Down syndrome in the systemic extermination of all those babies who are discovered in the womb to be “guilty” of the genetic “defect.” It is in Iceland, too, that the intolerance of those who fail to endorse homosexual practice is especially evident.
Fr. Jakob Rolland, chancellor of the Catholic Church in Iceland, was threatened with arrest by the police after he gave an interview with state broadcaster RÚV in which he stated the Catholic Church’s position on homosexuality. Such a position is no longer tolerated in Icelandic law, following the passing of a parliamentary statute in 2023 banning so-called “conversion therapy” of those experiencing same-sex attraction. According to those seeking to silence Fr. Rolland, his adherence to Catholic teaching and his refusal of the Eucharist to those living in same-sex relationships are forms of “conversion therapy.”
Asked whether he should obey the new law, Fr. Rolland responded in a manner reminiscent of the courage and conviction of St. Thomas More: “Yes, as long as the laws align with God’s laws, then it’s fine. It has been known in law from the very beginning that when the laws of the land and God’s laws conflict, God’s laws apply.” As with all good disciples of Christ, he is happy to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, but he will not render, or surrender, the things that are God’s to Caesar.
The courage of his convictions was evident in an earlier interview, in 2019, when Fr. Rolland stated:
If two women came to us and wanted to marry, then I’d say, “Unfortunately, that won’t work for us.” If they wanted to press charges, I’d say, “Do it.” If I go to prison, then I go to prison, but it won’t change my position.
Apart from having the courage of his convictions, Fr. Rolland also has the deep understanding of the things of which he is convicted and the ability to express them with clarity and charity:
Sexual orientation is only one factor among many that concern an individual’s tendencies towards some lifestyle that is not good for the individual and not good for society. And “conversion”—change of heart—this is a key word in the daily life of Catholic people. We are constantly in the position of turning away from what is evil towards what is good.
Against the charge that he is discriminating against those struggling with the disorder of same-sex attraction, Fr. Rolland makes it clear that we are all disordered in one way or another. Each of us struggle with sin and its harmful consequences. In this sense, those struggling with one form of disorder are no different from those struggling with different disorders. We are all sinners, and we are called to love one another; but there’s a difference between loving the sinner and endorsing the sin, a difference and a distance which is as wide as the chasm that separates Heaven from Hell:
Everyone who comes to church has their problems and sins, struggling to some degree with bad tendencies towards something. Everyone is kneeling, sometimes crying before God, before the statue of the Holy Virgin Mary, and asking for help. We are all really in the same position.
In recent interviews, Fr. Rolland has affirmed that Catholics with homosexual inclinations may receive the Eucharist—but not if they are engaged in intimate same-sex relationships. In other words, those struggling with a moral disorder are welcome to receive the Sacrament as repentant sinners. This is obvious because all human persons are in some sense morally disordered. The key word is not the noun, sinners, but the adjective, repentant.
In the face of the intolerance of the state, Fr. Rolland remains resolute, gaining great encouragement by the number of young people taking an interest in the Faith:
Yesterday I had a meeting for people who want to learn more about the Catholic faith and the Church’s teachings. And it was just a large group, and the vast majority were young people. So maybe it’s also part of the zeitgeist to be looking for an anchor, for answers to life’s questions. You want to find security and a sanctuary and community, and that’s the kind of people who come to us.
Fr. Rolland’s sense of encouragement at the number of young converts is also being felt in other countries. In France, over 13,000 adults and 8,000 teens were received into the Church this Easter, a new record for adult converts. The increase in the number of teenagers is simply startling. In 2017, only 1,385 teenagers requested baptism. This year, that number skyrocketed to 8,152.
Especially encouraging is the overall youthfulness of these new French converts. Older generations make up a tiny fraction of the total number. Only 1 percent of adult baptisms involve people over 65. In contrast, the overwhelming majority of new converts (82 percent) are between 18 and 40 years old. A similar, if less dramatic, upswing is being seen in the United Kingdom and other countries.
What are we to make of this resurgent Catholicism in the midst of the culture of death? Perhaps, as Fr. Rolland surmises, young people are “looking for an anchor, for answers to life’s questions.” They are seeking “security, sanctuary and community.”
In brief and in sum, they are seeking what can’t be found in the disordered world of relativism and nihilism. All that is needed is for the leaders of the Church to have the courage and conviction of good and resolute priests, such as Fr. Rolland. Such courage and such conviction will provide the rock to which young people need to cling as the culture of death continues its slow, sordid, and self-assisted suicide.
The official X account of Israel, which is run by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, is promoting an upcoming four-day LGBTQ+ pride festival in June at the Dead Sea. They are doing this on the traditional location of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:24-29).
Aaron Cohen, the main producer and initiator of the event, told the outlet that the scale of the festival is unprecedented,
"This is not just another festival, it's the biggest thing we've done here," he said.
He misspelled ‘dumbest.’
Pride rises at the lowest place on earth 🌈 This June the Dead Sea becomes Pride Land, the biggest LGBTQ+ festival ever in the Middle East. Four days of nonstop celebration community and connection.
The event boasts four days of nonstop celebration, community, and queer connection in the same neighborhood traditionally known as Sodom and Gomorrah. The plan: turn a chunk of Judean Desert into a 24/7 pop-up city with hotels, beaches, and a main stage pumping Israeli talent round the clock.
Family zones for the kids, workshops, the whole package. Producer Aaron Cohen basically said they’re going full mad-scientist: “We bought entire hotels and built a city in the desert. It’s not a festival, it’s an experience.”
Yeah, nothing says family values like exposing innocent children to something that God calls an abomination (Leviticus 18:22; 20:13).
To the Jewish Derangement Syndrome crowd (you know who you are), this event is a private initiative led by producer Aaron Cohen and his team — not a government-funded or state-run event like some official national project. Just as San Francisco's awful pride stuff doesn't represent all of America, this doesn't speak for every Israeli, especially the more religious ones—including over 820 Seventh-day Adventists in Israel. So, please don’t turn this thread into another JDS rant. That said, the official Israeli government account did promote it, and shame on them.
The optics, as the more biblically faithful among us have noted, are… impressive. Leviticus 18 and 20 are still clear, using that sturdy old Hebrew word to'evah — abomination — with the clarion bluntness of an Old Testament prophet who hadn’t yet received sensitivity training. And Romans 1 adds its own New Testament clarity for those keeping score at home (Romans 1:26-27).
I wonder if Israel’s trying to spur tourism while dodging rockets. Because nothing says “come visit!” like throwing the gayest party in history on the ashes of divine fire-and-brimstone real estate.
Abominable. I hope they repent (2 Peter 3:9).
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“For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting” (Romans 1:25-28).
