Variations on a theme

1. Saith Ruth Gledhill, the BBC will air, as part of its Sunday worship programming, a recording of a "gay mass" from San Francisco's church of the Most Holy Redeemer, a Catholic congregation in the Castro. The event happened last October. A spokesman for the Archdiocese of San Francisco denied that it was a "gay mass," but rather merely a prayer service. Oh. That changes everything.

2. A conservative Anglican missionary in Africa was poisoned in Malawi, after he successfully campaigned against a liberal London cleric from being appointed bishop there. There is no doubt that the priest, Canon Rodney Hunter, died from poisoning. The question is, who did it? The priest's family say that supporters of the liberal Londoner had spent the last few months making Canon Hunter's life hell. TMatt wonders how come nobody outside the blogosphere is paying attention to this story.

3. Courage Man makes a great point about how the dirty rotten way ex-New Jersey Gov. Jim "I Am a Gay American" McGreevey treated his wife and family in the course of carrying on his affair with a male paramour has gotten a pass from the media culture -- a pass that was (quite rightly) denied to Newt Gingrich for the way he treated one of his wives at the break-up. CM also notes other double standards being applied to McGreevey concerning his conduct -- stuff that if a straight politician were doing it, would be cause for outrage -- concluding that the media are giving the sleazy love guv a break because of his membership in the Oppressed Americans demographic.