Irisgate: 'where is god in all of this?'

The continuing exposures of the Robinsons, including the Panorama special on Monday 11 January, prompt a range of reactions. First, religious commitment and claims to biblical purity are not always opposed to personal aggrandisement, ostentatious display or personal insensitivity. There's always something particularly satisfying when a passionate denouncer ( ( particularly from the fundamentalist corner ) of the other people's sins bites the dust. At the same time Peter Robinson's performance at Stormont while his wife was recovering from a failed suicide attempt was notably cool and self-controlled, and suggested someone trying very hard to keep the lid firmly shut. But there was also the unedifying spectacle of lines of sanctimonious men queuing up to denounce yet another 'mad' woman, and the curious spectacle of Dr. Selwyn Black, Iris's political adviser since January 2008, with his storehouse of saved messages and emails. And where in June 2008, was either God or Dr. Black, when Iris denounced homosexuality as an 'abomination'?