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...Cloud9 posted this and not the original site. Why?
Let's put that aside and look at the Irish Times. What top writers write for it?
...The writer that provided comments on Boswell's work, what qualifications do they have? I assume most people who move onto providing commentary are more distinguished than those they comment on if they're experts.
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Don't know. Possibly though as on the original Ireland Times site it requires you to register and log in to view article like the NY Times etc all do and some people on GC don't like that hassle so a site where a copy of the article is, is simply easier. A quick glance at Google shows a bunch of places with a copy of the article which don't require a login as at
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/new...081100088.html.
Drizzle.com is indeed the webhost, the user appears to have copied the entire Ireland.com site interface to give (as occurred at first to me) the impression otherwise, illegally.
I thing there's very little chance the journalist is more distinguished academically than the late Yale Professor, history dept chairman and award winner himself! Sensibly he does not make attempt to debunk or push forward opinions on the research
itself or make any unsupported claims of his own without authorites. His article is headed 'Opinion' and is almost a review/commentary of the Professor's book.
The article says
"...Many questionable historical claims about the church have been made by some recent writers in this newspaper. ... Boswell's academic study however is so well researched and sourced as to pose fundamental questions for both modern church leaders and heterosexual Christians about their attitude towards homosexuality".
So as a historian/academic he simply feels moved to write based on recent debate in the newspaper but - being an academic - cites a distinguished source in making the stance.
ETA: And yes I see your position.
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