Showing posts with label LGBTQ. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LGBTQ. Show all posts
Thursday, December 1, 2022

50+ Colorado Springs Clergy Issue Letter Calling for End to Religion-Based Homophobic Hate Speech — No Catholic Clergy Sign the Letter

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Detail from Rogier van der Weyden's "Descent from the Cross," 15th century, Prado Museum, Madrid, at Wikimedia Commons Mark Wi...
Monday, November 21, 2022

Another Mass Shooting in an LGBTQ Club: Stochastic Terrorism and Eliminationist Rhetoric

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Detail from Rogier van der Weyden's "Descent from the Cross," 15th century, Prado Museum, Madrid, at Wikimedia Commons Daniel ...
Friday, November 1, 2019

If I Were a Young Person Seeking a Church Home for Myself, Why Would I EVER Want to Consider a Church in Which….

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If I were a young person seeking a church home for myself, why would I EVER want to consider a church in which
Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Jeff Chu on Meeting the Woman Who Fired Him Because He Was Gay: Valuable Twitter Thread for #RiseUpOct8

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The US Supreme Court will hear arguments this week on whether LGBTQ people are protected by existing anti-discrimination law. I've bee...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

"The Saint of Dry Creek": Story Corps Remembers Stonewall Uprising

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Watch “The Saint of Dry Creek,” as part of our #StonewallOutLoud initiative to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising...
Sunday, October 28, 2018

Bishop Gene Robinson to Matt Shepard: "Welcome Home"; Catholic Youth Synod to LGBTQ People: "You Will Not Be Named in Our Heterosexual Church" — Questions for Synod Participants and Voters

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In his sermon at the interment of Matt Shepard, Bishop Gene Robinson says the following (these excerpts are from about 1:13:48 and 1:19:3...
Thursday, September 13, 2018

My Twitter Conversation with Catholic Democrats about "Tremendous Push Back" Against Viganò Crowd's Homophobia: Where Is That Push Back Taking Place?

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Here's an exchange I had on Twitter yesterday with Catholic Democrats:
Wednesday, September 5, 2018

My "Final" Take on the Viganò Narrative: I Am Frankly Not Sure That Catholicism Can Be Cleansed of Hatred of Queer People

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One possible explanation of Pope Francis's silence on Viganò: to respond to the accusations would require him to directly critique the...
Monday, June 4, 2018

Developing Meme re: Supremes' Masterpiece Cakeshop Decision: It's "Narrow" — A View from the Bible Belt

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The developing meme about the Supremes' Masterpiece Cakeshop decision is that it's very "narrow" and won't mil...
Monday, May 7, 2018

LGBTQ Catholics and the Conversation About Staying or Leaving: 15 More Theses About Truths That Need to Be Heard in This Conversation

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My last posting  was an attempt to tell truth that is, in my view, often obscured and even barred as Catholics discuss the "proble...
Saturday, May 5, 2018

LGBTQ Catholics Are Asked, Why Stay in the Church? My 15-Question Response

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A recent conference at Boston College asks LGBTQ Catholics , Why stay? Why do you stay in the Catholic church?
Thursday, March 8, 2018

Recommended Commentary: White Evangelicals, U.S. Culture of Violence, "Pro-Life" Politics, Intersectionality, Etc.

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All of this rhetoric about white evangelical Protestantism “losing its way” makes me wonder what you think white evangelical Protestants d...
Monday, March 5, 2018

Catholic-LGBTQ Dialogue: "Catholic Theology Today Has Much Listening to Do" — But Where? When? How?

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[T]heologians need to pay attention to what is going on in queer Catholic communities. They need to listen closely and respect the long...
Saturday, February 24, 2018

As Neo-Nazis Celebrate Murder of Gay Jewish College Student, Where Are the Churches? (When They're Not Firing Queer Employees and Supporting Anti-Queer Discrimination, That Is)

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Members of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division have been linked to five murders—most recently the stabbing death of a gay Jewish colle...
Friday, February 23, 2018

Yesterday, Yes Means No re: Blessing Gay Couples; Today, Diametrically Opposed Statements about Papal Commission on Abuse: Why Does This Happen in Catholic Conversations?

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Why is it that, when issues such as whether same-sex couples can be blessed by Catholic officials or how child abuse by clerics is ha...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

The Bridge-Building Metaphor, the LGBTQ Community, and the Catholic Church: You Want to Build a Bridge to THAT?!

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As a metaphor, the image of building bridges from the LGBTQ community to the Catholic church and vice versa does not work for me. A primar...
Saturday, February 3, 2018

For Religion News Service, Jacob Lupfer Reports on Georgetown Lecture by Father James Martin: Queer-Bashing Trolls Go Wild

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Most of you readers are no doubt smarter learners than I am. So you will have figured this out long before I did: it's an absolut...
Monday, January 8, 2018

No Cake for the Gays and the Libertarian + White Catholic + White Evangelical Erosion of Civil Rights for All Minorities: Truth-Telling about Having Your Cake and Eating It, Too

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All these pieces fit together:  Jeffrey S. Trachtman, " Preserving LGBTQ Equality In The Supreme Court: No Piece of Cake ...
Friday, December 29, 2017

Bishop William G. Curlin: Some Last Words (about Pastoral Image and Pastoral Substance)

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I don't like beating dead horses — and could not bring myself to beat a live one, either. I do think it's important to make one...
Wednesday, December 27, 2017

"Bishops Like Curlin and Cardinal Law, What They Have Done Is Criminal": A Church That Wants to Be Pastoral Must Listen to Testimony of Abuse Survivors

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In a 27 April 2002 letter to the Charlotte Observer  entitled "In Eyes of Abuse Victims, Bishop Curlin Is No Hero,"* Neal E...