Arkansas Catholic Schools and Discrimination Against Gay Students: But These Schools Are Private After All, Aren't They?

As the Catholic diocese of Little Rock implements a cruel new policy for Catholic schools throughout Arkansas that makes gay* students invisible (see here, here, and here), an argument I'm hearing bruited about locally is that, well, these are private schools after all. They can and should be allowed to do whatever they want.

A Recommendation: Stephen Edward de Weger's Thesis "Clerical Sexual Misconduct Involving Adults within the Roman Catholic Church"

A resource I'd like to recommend to you: Stephen Edward de Weger's master's thesis (pdf) in the School of Justice of Queensland University of Technology's Faculty of Law. It's entitled "Clerical Sexual Misconduct Involving Adults within the Roman Catholic Church." Stephen's outstanding thesis draws on interviews with adults sexually abused by Roman Catholic authority figures, notably priests. 

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: "Religious Liberty Was Never Intended to Give One Religion . . . Veto Power Over the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties of Others"

Anne Hilt, "Religious Freedom' Means Putting LGBT Americans Back in the Closet"

Martin R. Castro, chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, in the newly released USCCR report (pdf), Peaceful Coexistence: Reconciling Nondiscrimination Principles with Civil Liberties:

Caring for Creation Central To Pope Francis' Papacy?

Tony Magliano writes that caring for creation is central to Pope Francis' papacy.

Well, as long as creation is not gay.*

* Gay = LGBTQI

Twitter Has Field Day with Ridiculous GOP (and Mainstream Media) Pearl-Clutching at Discovery That Women — Like Men — Can Develop Pneumonia

1. If you want to know what's wrong with media coverage in 2016, read this paragraph https://t.co/LJ6cr0VoGV pic.twitter.com/u7sCd00nur

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 11, 2016

Cruel New Policy of Diocese of Little Rock Attacking Gay Youth: More Discussion from Various Blog Sites

As I noted yesterday, the astonishingly cruel new policy forbidding students (and employees) in Catholic schools in Arkansas from even saying gay* is now being widely discussed in various places. I'm glad to see the discussion taking place. I'm grateful for two responses to what I myself have published about this cruel policy by two bloggers I highly esteem, Guy Lancaster and Alan McCornick.

bell hooks on Patriarchal Masculinity and the Will to Dominate — Not to Love

I have shared this excerpt from bell hooks' All About Love with you previously.

I'm sharing it with you again today — because Donald Trump and his supporters.