Ethics

Robert O'Brien Trophy Winner: Rev Dr Peter Mullen

By Ed Brayton

This month's Robert O' Brien Trophy for Idiot of the Month goes to an Anglican minister with an idea straight out of the Third Reich (and no, this does not invoke Godwin's law; I am not exaggerating in the least):

A Church of England clergyman has said that homosexuals should be tattooed with health warnings similar to those seen on cigarette packets.

The Rev Dr Peter Mullen, who is rector of St Michael's Cornhill and St Sepulchre without Newgate in the City, said in an internet blog that homosexuality was "clearly unnatural, a perversion and corruption of natural instincts and affections, and because it is a cause of fatal disease".

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 13, 2008 (boomark / email).