Showing posts with label homophobic violence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label homophobic violence. Show all posts
Thursday, December 1, 2022

50+ Colorado Springs Clergy Issue Letter Calling for End to Religion-Based Homophobic Hate Speech — No Catholic Clergy Sign the Letter

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Detail from Rogier van der Weyden's "Descent from the Cross," 15th century, Prado Museum, Madrid, at Wikimedia Commons Mark Wi...
Monday, November 21, 2022

Another Mass Shooting in an LGBTQ Club: Stochastic Terrorism and Eliminationist Rhetoric

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Detail from Rogier van der Weyden's "Descent from the Cross," 15th century, Prado Museum, Madrid, at Wikimedia Commons Daniel ...
Saturday, September 22, 2018

Chicago Priest Burns Rainbow Flag with Easter Fire: Dangerous Weaponization of Catholic Symbols to Attack Queer People

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Lighting of Easter Fire by Benedictines in Morristown, NJ, in 2009  The Catholic priest in Chicago who had announced his intent to bu...
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 ":
Saturday, February 24, 2018

As Neo-Nazis Celebrate Murder of Gay Jewish College Student, Where Are the Churches? (When They're Not Firing Queer Employees and Supporting Anti-Queer Discrimination, That Is)

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Members of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division have been linked to five murders—most recently the stabbing death of a gay Jewish colle...
Sunday, February 4, 2018

Kevin Ahern on the Failure of American Catholic Theologians to Defend Father James Martin: "A Crisis or Perhaps Even a Failure in Our Public Theology"

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A Failure in Public Theology: The Non-Defense of James Martin, SJ by @kevin_ahern https://t.co/XX7Z9kmdRr via @wordpressdotcom — Katie...

Frank Bruni's Column on How Father James Martin Is Being Attacked Reads Like Commentary on RNS Discussion Thread About Martin

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Pat Bagley on Twitter As I said earlier today in the RNS  discussion thread following Jacob Lupfer's account of Father James Mar...
Thursday, February 1, 2018

In the News: "In Many Ways, Donald Trump Is 'White Jesus'" — And "Remarkable Upsurge of Hate-Based Killings of LGBTQ People," Etc.

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I say anti-Semitic things, and then Jews criticize me. What is this conspiracy??? Anyway here’s a list of Jews pic.twitter.com/nOcZ8XoWpR...
Thursday, October 12, 2017

On the Danger of Allowing Gay People to Be Public in Catholic Institutions: A Story from the Recent Past

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Yesterday, I blogged about the recent statement of a bishop , Peter Jugis of Charlotte, North Carolina, that Catholic officials an...
Friday, September 1, 2017

Commentary on the Nashville Statement: "Strikingly Trumpian Brand of Redemption That Saves by Statements of Division"

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This is what I think of #NashvileStatement : At precisely the moment their support of white supremacy was revealed--bash the gays. 1/ — L...
Friday, June 16, 2017

Remembering the Pulse Massacre: "Less Talking about LGBT Catholics; More Listening to Them"

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LGBT Catholics & the church need a "bridge" only bc the church first deported & exiled them. https://t.co/DQKK7Rqr0v ...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Remembering the Pulse Massacre: Or Why I'm Still Not Feeling the Love from Christians in Donald Trump's America

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IVANKA TRUMP: There's a level of viciousness in Washington I did not expect. pic.twitter.com/7kRsGAtisn — Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Joll...
Thursday, August 11, 2016

John Pavlovitz Commemorates Pulse Massacre: "49 LGBTQ Children Were Murdered in a Nightclub in Orlando"

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On this eve of the two-month anniversary of the mass shooting of gay* people at the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando — the deadliest ma...
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...
Friday, June 24, 2016

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Online Discussions of LGBTQ Lives at Catholic Blog/News Sites Following Orlando — "A Pastoral Failure of Monumental Proportion"

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Three instructive comments by Catholics discussing the Orlando massacre at Catholic news and blog sites:

NCR and Commonweal Make Editorial Statements About Orlando: "Wrong to Downplay or Ignore the Fact That Mateen's Victims Were Murdered for Being Gay"

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Two leading U.S. Catholic journals have now published editorial statements about the Orlando massacre — National Catholic Reporter  a...
Friday, June 17, 2016

"All I Hear in These Conversations Now Is Death": Queer People Continue Engaging World Religious Leaders and Their Institutions in Light of Orlando

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. @JamesMartinSJ on solidarity w/ #LGBT community in wake of #Orlando shooting | https://t.co/k58PvyCGhL pic.twitter.com/Ny6Ye1Uaan —...

Garrard Conley's Boy Erased: Template for Understanding Religion-Based Homophobia and Its Assault on Queer Humanity

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I mentioned a few days back that I was reading Garrard Conley's book, Boy Erased (NY: Riverhead, 2016) , which recounts his expe...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

"LGBT Experiences Have Been Erased and Nullified": More on Who's Erasing Queer People from Discussion of a Massacre of Queer People, and Why This Is Being Done

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More observations on who's erasing queer people from the massacre of queer people in Orlando, and why they're doing this:

Ongoing Discussion of Possibility Omar Mateen Was Gay and Self-Hating: "Makes the Attack More About Homophobia, Not Less," "Nor Is This Unique to Islam"

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Meditation point 1: we Americans now live in a political-religious-cultural context in which some citizens sincerely claim to believe...