Outrageous: Tony Blair says Pope must rethink 'entrenched' views on gays

Ruth Gledhill of the UK Times:

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has made the case for a rethink on conservative religious attitudes to homosexuals. Read our story in The Times today. In an interview with the gay magazine Attitude, Tony Blair says he wants to urge religious figures everywhere, including the Pope, to reinterpret their religious texts to see them as metaphorical, not literal. He predicts that in time this will make all religious groups accept gay people as equals. He also believes there is a change of heart taking place in evangelicalism, with many younger evangeliclas becoming pro-gay, that the issue with evangelicals and Catholics is 'generational'. We already knew the Blair family did not abide by the Church's teaching on contraception and it seems Blair's conversion has not changed this. Interesting that many converts become more conservative than those born to a faith or denomination, but Tony Blair has stuck by his liberal principles.

Time to let that conversion sink in a little deeper, Mr. Blair.

Tony Blair to become Catholic? Well, not so fast....

An editorial by John-Henry Weston of LifeSiteNews makes the point that "Before Tony Blair Becomes Catholic He Must Renounce Anti-Life and Anti-Family Stands." A quote:

The [UK] Telegraph reports that Blair will now likely enter the Catholic Church at Easter next year. The paper adds this interesting tidbit: "Despite being asked by Cardinal Basil Hume, the previous Archbishop of Westminster, to desist from receiving Communion because he has not converted to Catholicism, Mr Blair received Communion from Fr Michael Seed while he was at Downing Street and from Fr Timothy Russ and Fr Walsh at Chequers."

Plenty more troubling details in the editorial.