Terry Weldon at Queering the Church on the Experience of Gay Catholics (and His Own Experience): "Despised and Rejected"

And speaking of gay Christians from whom I've learned a great deal: don't miss yesterday's posting by Terry Weldon at his Queering the Church blog site. It's a wrenching, painful, first-hand account of how he has been treated by his local Catholic community* as an out gay man who has spent years working to build spiritual and theological foundations for gay Catholics.

Catholic Right Loses It Over Joseph Bottum's Essay: "Stand Up and Spit in Their Face!"

And then there's this, the latest comment (8/25, 12:09 P.M. CST U.S.)* to judder into the Commonweal thread in response to Joseph Bottum's essay about gay marriage: I cite it without comment, since it seems to speak for itself, doesn't it?: