Showing posts with label heterosexism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heterosexism. Show all posts
Friday, December 6, 2019

What We Are Now Living Through Creates a Serious Crisis of Religious Faith

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In the video above, discussing the death of 16-year-old Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez in a detention center for immigrants this past ...
Monday, October 14, 2019

Newman Canonized, and Talk of His Love for Ambrose St. John Rocks the World of Macho-Heterosexist Clerics: My Thoughts

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1/ It has long been a tactic of homophobes to claim that one cannot identify people in the past as gay when they did not identify themselv...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

Indianapolis Archbishop Claims Firing of Gay Employees Necessary to Address "Public Situations": My Response

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Masha Gessen, " Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall ," on the Supreme Court ruling in Bowers v. Ha...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

John Gehring on Why Catholic Bishops Need a Year of Abstinence on Preaching about Sexuality

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John Gehring, " Why Catholic bishops need a year of abstinence on preaching about sexuality ":
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

"Everything in This Spreading Crisis Revolves Around Structural Mendacity"; "Poland's Most Senior Nun Has Been Banned from Further Media Contact": Talking Abuse

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Poland's most senior nun has been banned from further media contact after condemning the sexual abuse of religious sisters by Cathol...
Monday, February 18, 2019

McCarrick Defrocked, Abuse Summit Convening, and NY Times Lets Gay Priests Speak: My Twitter Commentary

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For years, Roman Catholic Church leaders have driven gay congregants away in shame. And yet, thousands of ministers are gay men. Two doz...
Monday, December 3, 2018

"All" Francis Is Doing Is Calling Gay Priests to Keep Vows of Celibacy: A Rebuttal

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People say Pope Francis' maliciously silly comments about gay priests are about underscoring that gay priests vowed to celibacy should...
Sunday, December 2, 2018

I Have a Dream: As Pope Francis Announces that Gay Men Shouldn't Enter Priesthood, as Advent Begins — "Leave the LGBTQ Community the Hell Alone"

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This is a meditation for the first Sunday of Advent. It has specific reference to what Pope Francis said (or is said to have said: let th...
Monday, November 19, 2018

"Boy Erased" and the Destructive Effects of So-Called "Conversion" Therapy: Commentary on the Film

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American Psychiatric Association, "APA Reiterates Strong Opposition to Conversion Therapy":
Saturday, November 3, 2018

National Catholic Reporter Addresses Wave of Catholic Hate Against Queer Community: My Response — Listening Means Listening

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The hatred is breathtaking. Online and in person. I've been a Jesuit 30 years and it was only this year that I've had people (lit...
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...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Commentary: McCarrick and Supposed "Gay Clique" in Hierarchy; Homosexuality Not Cause of Catholic Abuse Crisis; When Welcome Doesn't Really Mean Welcome

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Things I've read in the last day or so that I'd like to pass along to you — with themes that, in my view, fit together, so that...
Friday, September 28, 2018

Just Me, Mouthing Off About Crux and America and Large Investment of U.S. Catholic Intellectual Elites in Upholding Heterosexual Male Entitlement

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I'm just an old poofter and what I have to say doesn't matter to anyone at all, but Jesum Pete: 
Thursday, September 27, 2018

Kavanaugh Hearing and Catholic Abuse: Overlapping Narratives — Same Catholics Who Support Viganò's Allegations Dismiss Kavanaugh's Accusers

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Today I'm thinking of how many students, over the course of my teaching career, have recoiled, outraged at the thought that a woman...
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Crux on Cardinal McCarrick's "Sexually Deviant Behavior": U.S. Catholic Church Continues to Be Unsafe for LGBTQ People

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I went to bed last night more than a little troubled by something Crux  reporter Christopher White states in his report on a presentatio...
Tuesday, September 25, 2018

More on the Jesuit Elite Boys' Club from Which Kavanaugh and Judge Emerged: Need to Rethink Jesuit Claims re: Inculcating Healthy Masculinity in Students?

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1) There is a serious problem in American Catholic conversations that is glaringly obvious in the discussion of Brett Kavanaugh, Mark Judg...

Emily Witt on the (Jesuit Elite) Boys' Club That Protects Kavanaugh: Need to Rethink Jesuit Claims re: Inculcating Healthy Masculinity in Students?

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Mark Judge's Page , Georgetown Prep Yearbook The Cupola , 1983 Read the following statement by Emily Witt side by side with  my po...
Monday, September 24, 2018

Recent Discussion of Brett Kavanaugh's Jesuit Prep-School "Man for Others" Training: Ambiguity of Jesuit "Band of Brothers" Ethos

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John Gehring, " Improper Formation? Kavanaugh & the Prep-School Culture ": 
Thursday, September 20, 2018

Right-Wing Christian Support for Kavanaugh & Dismissal of Male Violence Towards Women: Fight to Keep Patria Potestas as Foundation of "Christian" Culture

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Merriam-Webster Dictionary David Badash, "' Not Relevant': Franklin Graham Says Alleged Kavanaugh Assault Just Something ...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

What Do Discussions of the Abuse Crisis in the Catholic Church Have to Do with the Kavanaugh Hearing? A Lot

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Ellen interviews Shelly Fitzgerald, who is threatened with firing by Roncalli Catholic High in Indianapolis for her same-sex marriage. ...