Paper retains anti-gay columnist

Northern Echo editor Peter Barron has decided to continue running columns by Peter Mullen, the Church of England rector who wrote on his own blog that gay men should have "sodomy" warnings tattooed on their bodies. "I regard him as a high quality, thought-provoking writer," says Barron, who promises that Mullen's column today "will be an expression of regret." It's not online as I write. (Via journalism.co.uk)