Word: DJ Angus & Jules Clarke

DS: The traditional Christmas dinner is a bountiful plate of gluttony, if you had to give up something from your plate – which food would you gladly forfeit?

FAG: If there is one thing taken away from my Christmas dinner. Dessert? No way. Anything? No way. Fine! Take away my napkin. Take away my cutlery too. Those are the only things that I don’t need.

FAG HAG: Christmas dinner for me has always consisted of turkey, stuffing, beef, leg of ham, roast potatoes, roast pumpkin, peas and beans, and not to forget, home-made gravy. So, seriously… out of this group, which would you give up? It’s clearly the peas or beans… small tasteless and green…

DS: Where would you most like to spend your X’mas and who with… and why?

FAG: I’d like to spend Christmas with my imaginary boyfriend in bed because he is just perfect in every single way if you know what I mean……

FAG HAG: Well, ideally I’d like to spend Christmas with my family, but if I can’t be with my family, I’d spend it with my closest pals. Sitting around the Christmas tree with its scattered presents underneath, flashing lights and champagne on tap while listening to Barry White’s Christmas songs… Unless of course, a hot AND naked Santa came down the chimney… then I’d ditch everyone else… for sure…

DS: Do you think churches should accommodate the LGBT community or do you think the LGBT should do without if it means a religion is being tampered with just to add to their congregation?

FAG: So yeah, I basically gave crap answers to the last 2 questions to save room for this one. First of all, being gay is not a lifestyle that you chose. Gay chooses you, you have no choice over that. Being gay is like your skin colour, or you hair colour, or your eye colour, except you can’t tan, or dye, or you can’t wear contact lens over your gayness. If this is all a part of who you are, why would churches, or whichever god you worship not accept, or accommodate you by the way you were born? Can we do without it? For some of us it is easy to say yes, but not for some of us who were raised the religious way. Asking them to choose between being gay or being accepted by the church is like asking them to rip themselves into parts. Would Jesus order someone do that? I don’t think so. So be it sin, be it family value, be it whatever it is, they are all just a way for some really narrow-mind people with great power to torment a relatively powerless, if fabulously accessorised, population. Don’t fall for it. “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” – John 13:34-35.

FAG HAG: The issue is not about whether a religion is being tapered with just to add to their congregation, but how the LGBT’s long-term membership in the church is acknowledged and affirmed – on a global scale. Is it a case where the church is finally learning from its past mistakes? After all, they were the main contributors in shaping society’s current negative view on homosexuality. Confrinting such issues openly and honestly is the way forward for any religion. Hypocrisy and bigotry are not.