More Alf Garnett than gospel

As if there were not enough problems on the Stock Exchange, now there comes this. Stock Exchange chaplain Rev Peter Mullen has "come out" with this outrageous suggestion;

'Let us make it obligatory for homosexuals to have their backsides tattooed with the slogan SODOMY CAN SERIOUSLY DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH and their chins with FELLATIO KILLS."

In one swoop a piece of mindless bigotry suggesting the stigmatising of gay people, will have created a barrier to faith for many gay and yes many straight people at the Stock Exchange. Safe sex is a health issue for all people but this sort of nonsense is about treating some people as lesser. As such it is a total misrepresentation of the church and for me immediately brought up pictures of Jews made to wear the Star of David in Nazi Germany.

I am sure that Mr Mullen has many admirable attributes but he would do well to refrain from sounding like a clerical Alf Garnett!