Showing posts with label proposition 8. Show all posts
Showing posts with label proposition 8. Show all posts
Saturday, June 6, 2015

Cordileone Opens His Mouth Again, Nonsense Falls Out Again: "The Clear Biological Fact Is That a Human Being Is Born Either Male or Female"

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It seems to me sadly predictable that San Francisco archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, the " father of proposition 8 ," who...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

LDS Leaders Hold "Historic" Press Conference to Announce Support for Gay Rights, and Critics Suggest Mormons Are Punking the Media: My Response

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As you may have read, this week top leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints issued a statement saying the foll...
Wednesday, May 8, 2013

U.S. Catholic Bishops Continue "Fortnight for Freedom" Events, Call on Catholics to Pray to Uphold DOMA and Prop 8

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As the day ends: note the bulletin insert that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has produced under the leadership of San Fran...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

The Marie Antoinette Syndrome and Gay Unions As Essentially "Different": Engaging Arguments Against Marriage Equality

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Friday, March 8, 2013

Rights for Me and Thee: Howard University Files Amicus Brief Supporting Marriage Equality

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Uh-oh. As I just noted , one of the most predictable tactics of the hard right in the U.S. (including not a few U.S. Catholic bishops...
Saturday, March 2, 2013

Rob Tisanai at Box Turtle Bulletin: "Dear Dr. Regnerus"

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And now, in non-"Dancing with the Stars" news as the weekend arrives:
Friday, November 23, 2012

Father Geoff Farrow on Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone's "Meteoric Rise" in American Hierarchy: Aiming for Red Hat as He Targets Gays

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More Catholics-in-the-news news:
Friday, October 19, 2012

Knights of Columbus Back in News: $15.8 Million Spent Since 2005 to Strip Gays of Civil Rights

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Earlier in the week, I excerpted observations from Joanna Brooks's  The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith (NY: F...
Saturday, July 28, 2012

Weekend News: Regnerus Study Again, More on Sally "Ad Multos Annos" to San Fran!

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In the news as the weekend gets underway: The Regnerus study , which an auditor of the processed used by the journal Social Science...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

More News Tidbits: Prop 8 Trial, DOJ Files Suit Against Minnesota School District, Gay Catholic Music Teacher Loses Another Job

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And more tidbits, these from the area of gay-rights discussions:  Another video resource I didn't recommend in my first two p...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

Mormons in the Public Square: Romney's Candidacy and Controversy about LDS Baptism of Anne Frank

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One of the interesting religion-and-politics stories of the past week: due to Mitt Romney's prominence in the Republican campaign...
Friday, February 10, 2012

1967 or 2012? John Aravosis on NOM Response to Prop 8 Ruling in California

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I like John Aravosis's take on the National Organization for Marriage's  denunciation of the recent California court ruling f...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Prop 8 Declared Unconstitutional: Sole Purpose to Lessen Status and Human Dignity of Gays

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"The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice" -- M.L. King As I just noted, the toxic lies spread ...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Mormons Join Catholic Bishops' Discrimination Party in Minnesota

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Guess who's coming to dinner?  The dinner being the discrimination-gala the Catholic bishops of Minnesota have been throwing the ...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Minnesota Catholic Bishops: Every Catholic Parish to Form Teams Attacking Marriage Equality

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A moment ago, I wrote ,  To many of us in many different faith traditions, it often appears that our religious leaders have activ...
Sunday, August 22, 2010

Brian Cones at U.S. Catholic on Prop 8 Decision: Catholic Silence Is Disturbing

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Because I've been pushing against the homophobic silence of the American Catholic center --of its opinion-making mavens, in particular...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Prop 8 Decision: Homophobia on Trial, Engaging Irrational "Arguments" on Which It Rests

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Imagine, for a moment, that we are now down the road of history, and the dust of the journey has begun to settle with Judge Walker’s recen...
Saturday, August 7, 2010

End-of-Week News Round-Up: Prop 8 Commentary

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A few articles about the prop 8 decision that have struck me as thought-provoking in the past week: At San Francisco Chronicle , Mark Mor...
Saturday, July 31, 2010

Timothy Kincaid on NOM's Summer of Hate: Bald-Faced Bigotry Betraying Core Religious Values

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A good article by Timothy Kincaid today at Box Turtle Bulletin, putting the rank homophobia of groups like the National Organization for M...
Saturday, January 23, 2010

End of Week News Roundup: Prop 8, Supremes, and the Pro-Life Movement

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A news roundup as the week ends: Rick Jacobs of Courage Campaign reports at Huffington Post this week about the massive internet coverag...