From a technological perspective I am a child of my times: I like gadgets, computers, digital imaging, the Internet (I\u2019m not sure how I coped so long without it) and I may even learn to like the iPad when it starts multi-tasking.<\/p>\n
When it comes to language, though, I am more at home with the prose of Trollope than Twitter. So encountering a post-English atrocity like LGBTQQIP, presents the unpalatable temptation to do the opposite of what I occasionally succumbed<\/a> to in a more colourful if muddled era: turn-off and tune-out.<\/p>\n One can\u2019t dignify \u201cLGBTQQIP\u201d with the attribute of meaning,<\/em> but it apparently begs to be applied to<\/a> a person who is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Pansexual. <\/em>I remain unclear as to whether one must be suffering all these afflictions simultaneously in order to lay claim to the acronym, but I suspect no-one is counting.<\/p>\n Were I allowed the speak at the forthcoming Anglican General Synod<\/a> in Halifax \u2013 where I will be a blogging visitor – \u00a0it is a question I would bring up for deliberation in euphoric anticipation that someone would take me seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From a technological perspective I am a child of my times: I like gadgets, computers, digital imaging, the Internet (I\u2019m not sure how I coped so long without it) and I may even learn to like the iPad when it … Continue reading