Showing posts with label Maine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maine. Show all posts
Saturday, June 2, 2018

Catholic Church and LGBTQ People: Clues, Hearsay, Spectacularly Failed Pastoral Leadership in Face of Oppression and Suffering

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Jamie L. Manson, " For LGBTQ Catholics, there is little hope in hearsay ":
Friday, January 8, 2016

Reading the Signs of the Times: Five Interconnected Stories from Today's News (Mummers, Maine Governor, Arizona Bishop, Wheaton, Mr. Trump and Mr. Clinton's Penis)

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These seemingly disconnected stories have several things in common. What do you think? What common thread(s) do you spot here?
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Arkansas, Idaho, Oregon, Utah, Pennsylvania? and NOM's Very Bad Day: Where Marriage Equality Stands in the U.S., 20 May 2014

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Friday, October 4, 2013

Recommended: Miranda Blue's Series at Right-Wing Watch on Globalizing Homophobia and Role of U.S. Religious Right

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Matthew 28:19-20, The Great Commission We have known for some time now that the fingerprints of the American religious right are all ...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Maine Supreme Court: National Organization for Marriage Must Disclose Donors, and Fred Karger's Commentary

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At The New Civil Rights Movement, Fred Karger comments on the recent ruling by the Maine Supreme Court that the anti-gay group Natio...
Thursday, November 8, 2012

Turning Corner with Marriage Equality (and Catholic Contributions)

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And, of course, one of the biggest news stories of this election cycle, which still has not received as much attention as it deserves...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Knights of Columbus Back in News: $15.8 Million Spent Since 2005 to Strip Gays of Civil Rights

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Earlier in the week, I excerpted observations from Joanna Brooks's  The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith (NY: F...
Saturday, March 10, 2012

Catholic v. Catholic: Marriage Equality Debate (and Battles) Continue

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And on the more ignorance, less bliss front (I'm piggybacking here on what I just posted about Krugman's latest): readers wil...
Monday, March 5, 2012

Lori in the Limelight: What about Those "Large Anonymous Gifts" Used to Fight Disclosure of Sex-Abuse Files?

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And speaking of the USCCB religious freedom guru, Bishop William Lori and the increasingly high-profile role he's playing in American...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Spin Continues: NY Catholic Official Attributes Marriage Equality Victory to Money

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As I noted in a series of postings following the vote for marriage equality in New York--a series about how the Catholic church has turne...
Monday, April 18, 2011

Another Conversion Experience among Anti-Gay Activists: Marc Mutty of Catholic Diocese of Maine Reveals Troubled Conscience

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Something is happening these days.  First, a leading propagandist for the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), Louis Marinelli, has w...
Friday, November 13, 2009

Commentary on U.S. Catholic Bishops' Collusion in Attacking Gay Citizens of Maine: A Collection of Opinion Pieces

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Some helpful comments are now appearing at various websites, re: the use of Catholic money by bishops around the country to remove the right...
Thursday, November 12, 2009

Exclusionary Politics or Care for the Poor?: Reflections on the Eroding Moral Authority of the U.S. Catholic Bishops

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I appreciate the discussion that followed my posting two days ago about the latest Catholic hall of shame—the list of Catholic dioceses acr...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

The Hall of Shame: Catholic Dioceses Across U.S. Support Maine Diocese's Attack on Gay Brothers and Sisters

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In the posting I just uploaded, about shutting down the GayTM, I noted that the Catholic church in the U.S. has mounted a nationwide attack ...

It's Time: Shutting Down the GayTM

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I noted this on my Facebook page yesterday, but should also make a note of it on Bilgrimage. I'm fully in support of the boycott of the ...
Friday, October 30, 2009

News from the Week: Maine Anti-Gay Initiative's Shenanigans, More on Rome's Invitation to Anglicans

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It’s apparently not just this site that has gotten plastered with ads from the Yes on 1 folks—the group trying to remove the right of marria...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

Keeping Democracy Alive: Courts in Maine and Washington Rebuff Attempts to Circumvent Full-Disclosure Laws

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As a follow-up to my posting yesterday about the National Organization of Marriage’s continued attempts to skirt Maine’s full-disclosure fin...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Final Week of Maine Campaign: Continued Questions about NOM's Financial Involvement

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The Beyond Chron website has a very good article today analyzing the financial record of the National Organization for Marriage in its bat...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Notice to Readers re: Ads on Bilgrimage Blog

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I just logged in to see that an ad for Stand for Marriage Maine (the group seeking to remove the right of marriage from gay citizens of Main...
Monday, October 26, 2009

Churches Close, Bishop Lives in a Mansion: Backdrop to Maine Catholic Diocese's Attack on Gay Citizens

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As Maine's voters and the Catholics of Portland diocese assess the $252,600 that the diocese has donated to remove the right of marriag...