Showing posts with label marriage equality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marriage equality. Show all posts
Monday, July 24, 2017

Trump and the Christian Fascists, and What Trump Election Says About Us

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compassion. is the longest emotion there is. — . (@nayyirahwaheed) July 23, 2017 Speaking-truth-to-power sorts of statements I've ...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

More Commentary on Tony Spence's Firing and Consequences for U.S. Catholics, Commentary on Norwegian Lutherans' Embrace of Same-Sex Marriage

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More commentary on two stories that have been discussed here recently — the firing of Catholic News Service director Tony Spence afte...
Saturday, April 9, 2016

William Saletan on Amoris Laetitia As Closeted Argument for Gay Marriage: Growing Cracks in Foundation of Catholic Approach to Same-Sex Couples

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Another interesting piece of (non-insider) commentary on Amoris Laetitia  to which I want to point you today: William Saletan at Slat...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Marianne Duddy-Burke on Pope Francis' Intervention in Italian Debate About Gay Unions: "Pope Has judged Our Relationships, Our Marriages to Be Inconsistent with the Divine Plan"

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As Marianne Duddy-Burke of Dignity-USA says in response to Pope Francis's recent public statement opposing marriage equality in...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Catholic Sister Responds to Pope re: Marriage Equality— "Paul May Not Have Thrown the Stones That Killed Stephen, But He Did Hold the Cloaks of Those Who Did"

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Pope Francis makes a public statement opposing marriage equality, a step that is, as Francis DeBernardo notes at Bondings 2.0, ...
Saturday, January 16, 2016

Defining Christianity by Exclusion of LGBT Human Beings: "If This Is the Christianity They Want, Perhaps It Is Time for That Christianity to Die"

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Thinking back this morning to Kaya Oakes's post- Obergefell  essay last November: as she points out, anti-LGBT right-wing Christians...
Thursday, January 7, 2016

"If I Believe It Sincerely Enough, I Have the Right to Deny You Rights": Religious Freedom Argument Remains Alive and Well in 2016

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Religious freedom (as in, "If I believe it hard and sincerely enough, I have the right to deny rights to you: because my God tel...
Tuesday, December 29, 2015

NCR's Editorial Naming Greg Bourke and Michael DeLeon Persons of the Year: Word Count Revealing Preoccupations of Catholics Responding to NCR (Sin: 47 Mentions; Mercy: 7 Mentions)

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As of 3:30 P.M. CST in North America, National Catholic Reporter 's editorial naming Greg Bourke and Michael DeLeon has garnered...

NCR's Choice of Greg Bourke and Michael DeLeon As Persons of the Year: A Pretty Big Deal (See SCOTUS Daily)

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A footnote to what I posted yesterday about the editorial announcement of National Catholic Reporter  that it has chosen as its 201...
Friday, December 25, 2015

Looking Back at 2015 on Christmas Day: "The Light Around Us Remains, We Take Our Mercies As We Get Them"

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More Christmas gifts I've unwrapped this morning, that I now want to give to you, my friends and fellow pilgrims around the w...
Friday, December 11, 2015

Frank Brennan, SJ, on the Australian Catholic Bishops and Marriage Equality: My Response and Critique of the Clericalist Closed-Circle Argument

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I very much appreciate that Chris Morley recommended to us Jesuit Father Frank Brennan's recent article at Eureka Street  no...

Theological Roots of Bitter Battle of Some Christians Against LGBT Rights: The Bible Can't Be Wrong (We Can't Be Wrong, and Heterosexual Men Rule)

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Here's a set of interlocking observations that, to my mind, share a common theme: 1) a comment an Episcopal priest made to me yes...
Monday, November 23, 2015

"Spotlight": My Five-Point Commentary

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Steve and I went yesterday to see "Spotlight." Most of you will already know quite a bit about this film, but in case anyone ...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Kaya Oakes on How "Whitest, Malest, Straightest, Most Educated" Representatives of Christianity Are Driving People from Religion

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Kaya Oakes, writing yesterday at Religion Dispatches about the battle that Christians opposed to marriage equality have lost:
Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Fred Clark on Kim Davis: "57 Years to the Day After Other White Evangelical Christians in the South Defied a Court Order" Contradicting Their Religious Views

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Fred Clark's neat summary  of the parallel between the Kim Davis story and the Orval Faubus story: 
Sunday, September 6, 2015

John Bijarney on Kim Davis and Her Supporters: Seeking License to Escape Change and Project Status Quo into the Future

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This commentary by my Facebook friend John Bijarney on what Kim Davis and her supporters are really all about, at the core of their mov...

Liberty Counsel's Faux Religious Liberty Stunt Involving Kim Davis: Commentary Worth Reading

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No one's being jailed for practicing her religion. Someone's being jailed for using the government to force others to practice her...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

Kim Davis Goes to Jail for Contempt of Court

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Judge: #KimDavis ' "good-faith belief is simply not a viable defense. Oaths mean things." http://t.co/JsM6chMt70 pic.twitt...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

John Corvino on Kim Davis: "Willingness to Impose a Standard of Marriage on Gays That She Does Not Apply to Others, Herself Included" Reveals Her True Intent: Singling Out Gays for Discrimination

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John Corvino on Kim Davis :

It's On in Rowan County, Kentucky (3): "Under God's Authority," Religious Freedom, and the Elite Commentariat

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A YouTube user, 646guy, is uploading videos from today's events at the Rowan County, Kentucky, courthouse. The video above is more ...