Showing posts with label gay rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gay rights. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

George Floyd Killed by Police, Catholic Bishops' President Takes Six Days to Speak; Supreme Court Forbids Workplace Discrimination Vs. LGBTQ People, USCCB Instantly Finds Its Voice

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Police kill George Floyd, Archbishop Gomez responds six days later; SCOTUS files a ruling about LGBT people, Gomez responds six hours late...
Thursday, January 19, 2017

Holding the Moral Center As Trump Takes Office: "We Must Resist. There Are No Sidelines. There Is No Middle Ground."

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Thursday, November 3, 2016

Tweets on Eve of Historic U.S. Election: "Will Always Be Remembered as the Presidential Election in Which the KKK, the KGB and the FBI All Supported the Same Candidate"

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This will always be remembered as the presidential election in which the KKK, the KGB and the FBI all supported the same candidate. — Vic...
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Robert P. Jones and The End of White Christian America: LGBTQ Rights, White Christian America, and a Trump Presidency — Questions for Consideration

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As I noted yesterday when I offered you my first installment of excerpts from Robert P. Jones' new book The End of White Christi...
Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Jason Sokol on White Southern Resistance to Civil Rights Movement: "Some White Southerners Perceived the Civil Rights Movement as a Threat to Their Very Notion of Freedom" — Implications for "Religious Freedom" Discussion

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In his book There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975 (NY: Knopf, 2006), Jason Sokol writes a...
Monday, May 16, 2016

Want to Know Why "Pro-Life" Democrats Are Vanishing Breed? Go See "Spotlight," Fred Clark Advises: On the Catholic Bishops, the Culture Wars, and Mr. Trump

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Want to know why the "pro-life" Democrats have vanished, Fred Clark asks ? And then he recommends: "Go see 'Spotligh...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Two Resources to Recommend to You: On Unpacking Invisible Knapsacks of Male Privilege, Racial Privilege, and Heterosexual Privilege

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Two resources to share with you this morning. These are resources recommended at the conference on embracing and affirming LGBTQ diversit...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Supremes Hear Zubik All-or-Nothing "Religious Liberty" Arguments: Commentary Worth Noting

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The Supreme Court hears arguments this morning in the case of Z ubik v. Burwell.   At issue in this case: a number of religious group...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

The Little Sisters of the Poor, Kim Davis, and the Challenge of Preserving Real Religious Freedom: Frederick Clarkson's Important New Essay "When Exemption Is the Rule"

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As Frederick Clarkson points out in a just-published (and exhaustive and richly-resourced) must-read overview of the religious libert...

Kim Davis Does the SOTU — With Little Sisters of the Poor: Anti-Obama "Religious Freedom" Advocates Joined at the Hip

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Here's Rowan County, Kentucky, Clerk Kim Davis at the #SOTU https://t.co/OhpUpmqIlX pic.twitter.com/XLhBPXqOmT — CNN Tonight (@CNN...
Monday, January 4, 2016

NY Times Claim That Anti-Gay Laws in Africa Are Blowback for U.S. Intervention: Critical Reflections

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I have to admit that I raised my eyebrows a few weeks ago when the New York Times  published Norimitsu Onishi's article citing vario...
Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Who Really Set Up Papal Meeting with Kim Davis? Enlightening Comments at Catholic Blog Site

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Yesterday at the National Catholic Reporter  site , Tom Gallagher posted an article focusing on something about which I spoke briefly...
Monday, October 5, 2015

Some Bullet Point Observations As Synod on Family Opens in Light of Kim Davis-Pope Francis Story: Continuing Claim That Symbol Counts for Substance in Catholic Community

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• Well, at least the debacle of Kim Davis and the Pope has gotten the mainstream media finally to say clearly, unambiguously what the...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Kenyan Catholic Bishops Oppose Polio Vaccination for Children

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One minute, the Catholic bishops of Kenya are up in arms about the fact that the U.S. president dares to defend the human rights of ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

A Year Ago Today We Married: Continuing to Give Witness

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On this day a year ago, Steve and I married in my home state of Arkansas — our  home state, after we returned here in 1997 when we we...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Controversy Over Choice of Wealthy Gay NYC Businessmen to Host Benefit for Ted Cruz: Miles to Go Before We Sleep in Movement for Human Rights

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No matter what happens with the deliberations about marriage equality at the Supreme Court today (and in the weeks following), we...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Quote for Day: Odd That No One Ever Asks Rubio and Others Employing a States'-Rights Argument about Marriage Equality, Was Loving v. Virginia Wrongly Decided?

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In several postings in the past several days, I've zeroed in on the, well, odd  tendency of many centrist religious commentators ...
Friday, March 20, 2015

End-of-Week Items: Utah, Arkansas, Religious Freedom and Anti-Gay Laws, and Fixations of Conservotrad Catholics

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A miscellany of end-of-week news items or blog postings I've read, thought were good, and want to pass on to you as the week ends...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "Most Men with Homosexual Tendencies Enjoy Denigrating and Ridiculing Women"

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Two days ago, I noted, Comments threads at Catholic blog sites are, to put the point bluntly, all too often used to attack LGBT p...
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Women's Rights, Gay Rights: Snapshot of an Ongoing Conversation

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We've been having a conversation here of late about recent much-ballyhooed statements of performers Patricia Arquette and Madon...