We've posted Paul Varnell's intriguing column tracing the Vatican's latest attacks on homosexuality to Freud's views. Hopefully, if we receive enough contributions-and please contribute if you haven't-we can shift to a design that incorporates a comments area for all our articles as well as for this blog (which now sits on an entirely different platform).
Anyway, I would take issue with the notion that Freud in a
larger sense has been debunked (do we no longer accept the
subconscious, or the meaning of dreams?), although on certain
points he's been revised and expanded upon. And his "Letter to an
American Mother," which gets Paul's ire up, is actually a
surprisingly accepting view of homosexuals, especially given the
time (there's a link to letter text in the article, so readers can
judge for themselves).