Showing posts with label gay teen suicide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gay teen suicide. Show all posts
Thursday, December 8, 2022

Pope Francis on Women Priests and Related Recent News Items: "I do not know whether to laugh or cry at Pope Francis’ suggestion about women’s position in the Church"

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Altar of Veit Stoss, descent of the Spirit at Pentecost, St. Mary's Church, Krakow, Poland, photo by Robert Breuer at Wikimedia Commons ...
Thursday, March 7, 2019

Connections: UMC Hardening vs. Queer People to Catholic School Barring Child of Gay Couple to Failure of Utah Bill Outlawing "Conversion" Therapy to "Pro-Life" Administration Caging Children

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I offer you today these selections from items I have been reading lately, because — to my way of thinking, and I am hoping you'll a...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

Attack on LGBTQ People Coupled with Attack on Healthcare Coverage: Double-Whammy Attack Emanating from "Pro-Life" White Christians

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THREAD: 1. People choose to end their lives for all sorts of reasons. — Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) July 27, 2017
Friday, July 8, 2016

"This Is Actually Happening, and It's Real, and It's Right Now": Christian Churches Responding (or Refusing to Respond) to Pastoral Needs of LGBTQ Human Beings

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Gay (former) Mormon Tyler Glenn in a video he posted to Facebook on 5 July (the video above), about the suicide of LGBTQ Mormon youth aft...
Sunday, January 31, 2016

Reported Spike in Suicides of LGBT Mormon Youth After LDS Church Enacts New Gay-Excluding Policy: Some Links for You

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As Chris Morley notes in a series of comments here yesterday ( this is his initial comment in the thread), a story has made the rounds t...
Monday, September 15, 2014

Another Suicide of a Gay Teen: Catholic Context

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This heart-breaking story of the suicide of yet another gay teen is a reminder of why it matters — why it should matter — that the Ca...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Quote of the Day: "Let's Start with How This Affects Real People"

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I love the opening line of Fred Clark's last posting today at Slacktivist: Let’s start with how this affects real people.
Monday, February 3, 2014

John Corvino, What's Wrong with Homosexuality?: "A Risky Lifestyle" (4)

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Another excerpt from John Corvino's book   What's Wrong with Homosexuality ? (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013)--this one sums up his ch...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Scary Hallowe'en Reads? Cardinal Ratzinger's "Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons"

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There's an interesting Hallowe'en thread right now at Commonweal , responding to Dominic Preziosi's question to readers ...
Monday, September 9, 2013

Pauls Toutonghi on Suicide of Gay Teen Jadin Bell: "As a Recent Father of Twins, This Story Wouldn’t Leave Me Alone"

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At Salon, Pauls Toutonghi discusses in heart-rending detail the protracted, relentless bullying that led to the suicide of 15-year-old...
Thursday, June 6, 2013

Michelle Rhee Responds to Plea of 11-Year-Old Boy: Why Reward "Don't Say Gay" Educational "Reformers"?!

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Desmond Tutu Appeals to Ugandans' Conscience, and Another Gay Teen Commits Suicide

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Josh Pacheco (1995-2012) And (piggybacking on what I just posted about Justice Scalia and his recent response to a gay Princeton stud...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

The Importance of Anderson Cooper's Coming Out Statement

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Monday, April 23, 2012

Another Gay Teen in U.S. Kills Himself Due to Bullying: R.I.P, Kenneth James Weishuhn

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In what I just posted, I once again noted the monomaniacal (and morally indefensible) preoccupation of centrist Catholics who continu...
Friday, February 3, 2012

Rolling Stone on Suicide Epidemic in Anoka-Hennepin School District: Pro-Life Voice Still Silent

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I wrote yesterday , . . . [H]ow do any religious leaders (and educated, purportedly morally sensitive people who defend them) possibl...
Thursday, February 2, 2012

Phyllis Zagano on Foolishness of Catholics Who Question Bishops' Attack on Obama: A Footnote

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A tiny footnote to what I posted earlier today about Phyllis Zagano's recent  NCR article (and about all of the centrist Catholic in...

Phyllis Zagano on Foolishness of Catholics Who Question Bishops' Attack on Obama: My Response

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I've gone back and forth in my head about whether to comment on Phyllis Zagano's latest piece at National Catholic Reporter  c...
Monday, January 23, 2012

Another Gay Teen Suicide: Phillip Parker, Tennessee

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How soon will it be until we click on to another story or change the channel when  yet another of these tragic suicides  of gay tee...
Friday, January 20, 2012

Resources for Catholic Conversations with Gay Folks: Phil Ewing's Blue-Eyed Ennis Site

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Fra Bartolommeo, "Christ Appearing on the Road to Emmaus" As the work week ends, I want to take notice of several valuabl...
Friday, January 13, 2012

Andrew Sullivan on Latest Gay Teen Suicide: The Task of Real Christians Is Alleviating Pain

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I have not had the heart to blog about this latest illustration of what unrelenting discrimination (egged on in American culture by m...