British Beatitudes!. . . Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.
In English-speaking countries, the connection between heresy and homosexuality is expressed through the use of a single word to denote both concepts: buggery. . . . Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (Third Edition) defines "buggery" as "heresy, sodomy.
Buggery was invented to fill that awkward hour between evensong and cocktails.