Author: Pete Vere

…just added a little more grease: Ontario Attorney General Moves to Confiscate Home of Rural Hunter.

NOVELTY pig calendars and toys have been banned from a council office — in case they offend Muslim staff.

Is anyone actually surprised by this?
The Netherlands has legalized polygamy in all but name, granting a civil union to a man and two women.

Like some other bloggers, I received a review copy of Bill Kassel’s This Side of Jordan, which I just finished reading. FOr the most part I concure with Curt Jester’s review, although I did find it a tad sermonizing in parts (even though I agreed with the content of the sermons). Nevertheless, I must agree that I found Kassel a much smoother novelist than Bud MacFarlane.
Some of the parts I found most humorous in this novel are his observations about modern nuns. Kathy Shaidle would probably concur with Kassel’s description of how modern nuns dress and groom — that is, despite getting rid of the veil and habit, you can still tell a nun in an airport by the way she dresses.
The other enjoyable part is an exchange between an old conservative priest and a boomer modernist priest, where the latter claims homophobia is the greatest threat facing the church. The old priest responds something like “No, I think the greatest threat is homophobephobia — or the fear of being called a homophobe.”
From my little computer in Canada’s capital, I wholeheartedly concur. In fact, just blogging this thought is technically a felony in our country, if I am not mistaken. One punishable by up to two years in prison.