Showing posts with label transgender. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transgender. Show all posts
Saturday, July 28, 2018

When a Story About Chewing Gum Is Not About Chewing Gum: Transgender Teen Denied Communion in Charlotte, North Carolina, Catholic Church

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Was she denied Communion because she’d been chewing gum — or because she’s transgender? https://t.co/cm8rjukgYx — 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙳. 𝙻...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Twitter Chews Over Election Results: "Thoughts and Prayers to all the Republican Politicians Who Lost Their Seats Today"

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Thoughts and prayers to all the Republican politicians who lost their seats today. We won't do anything to prevent it from happening 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

The "Debate" About Transgender People: Don't Buy Framing That It's About Gender

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THREAD: 1. Those pushing anti-trans discrimination with religious warrants would like you to think this is all about gender. — Bill Linds...
Thursday, June 1, 2017

In the News: Conservatives Respond Differently to Kathy Griffin's Tasteless Stunt Than to Online Pictures Showing Obama Hanged in Effigy — Why?

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Items I've read online this morning, which catch my attention as important — and, for that reason, I want to share them with you. T...
Thursday, February 23, 2017

The Strongman Does What Bullies Do — Picks on the Least Among Us; People of Faith Speak Back

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ICE detains, removes a Salvadoran woman with a brain tumor from a Texas hospital https://t.co/BkhG6LudFU h/t @PGourevitch cc: @ACLU p...
Thursday, October 6, 2016

My Reflections on Pope Francis' Recent Remarks About Gender Theory: There's the Real World, and Then There's . . . .

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I have tried to formulate some reflections on Pope Francis' recent statements about gender issues. Since I have been silent a num...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Francis Effect for Gay* Folks? Still Elusive, As Bishops Around Globe Throw His Harsh Words in Faces of Gay* People

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Yesterday, I drew your attention to a just-published essay by Patricia Miller  which suggests that the U.S. Catholic bishops have done...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Jennifer Finney Boylan on Moral Imagination and the Anti-Trans Agenda of the GOP: Once Again, What Good Does Church Do?

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Jennifer Finney Boylan argues that developing "moral imagination" — the ability to imagine the lives of those different ...
Monday, May 23, 2016

Commentary on the Bathroom Wars (and the Role of Religious Folks in Them): "Fighting Over Bathrooms Is the Oldest Move in the Prejudice Playbook"

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More commentary for you from the last several days, as a new work week begins: these pieces focus, for the most part, on the current ...
Monday, May 16, 2016

Claim That the Culture Wars are Over and Religious Right Is Obsolescent Links to Claim That Political Left and Identity Politics Are Responsible for Trump: My Take

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One thing I suppose many of us can agree on about the current U.S. presidential election cycle is that it has been full of surprise...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Quote for Day: The Current Trans-Panic and "A Process Which, If Followed to the End, Will Make Us Into Devils"

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Fred Clark at Slacktivist , commenting on a lurid fantasy being peddled by conservative Christian commentator Rod Dreher , about gang...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Loretta Lynch's Historic Speech Connects Dots Between LGBT and Black Struggles for Rights: "Not the First Time That We Have Seen Discriminatory Responses to Historic Moments of Progress for Our Nation"

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Friday, May 6, 2016

"Liberal Redneck" Trae Crowder Back in Video About How He Became Liberal: Did Not Appreciate How Church Treated His Gay Uncle

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Several days back , I shared with you a video by Tennessee comedian and self-styled "liberal redneck" Trae Crowder offering de...
Sunday, April 24, 2016

"Just Dyin' to Punch Sump'n Different": Trae Crowder on Anti-Trans Hysteria Gripping Southern Evangelical Culture Now

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Well, it's Sunday, and why not? Why not a bit of fun (mixed with NSFW language) on Sunday?
Thursday, April 21, 2016

In the News: Attacks on Transgender Community, with Commentary on Catholic Bishops' Support of Discriminatory Laws

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Another in-the-news posting to follow the one I just posted about the ongoing story of the abuse crisis in the Catholic church in the U.S...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

New Ways Ministry on Belmont Abbey College's Discrimination Against Transgender Individuals: "Undermining Catholic Education and an Approach to Gender That Is Rooted in the Gospel "

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As wild hair reports in a comment here this morning, New Ways Ministry's Bondings 2.0 blog has now published a statement about...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

Belmont Abbey College in National News Again: Claims Catholic "Right-to-Discriminate" Title IX Exemption Targeting Transgender Students and Staff

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I have shared with you the story of how a Catholic college in North Carolina owned by a Benedictine community destroyed my career as ...
Monday, July 13, 2015

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: What Would the Arguments about Gay and Trans Folks Look Like If Real People Were Part of the Evidence?

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What would the arguments look like if real people were part of the evidence? , Maryknoll Father William Grimm asks , as he looks at t...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

The Catholic Sensibility and Trans People: Another Perspective

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At the Catholic Sensibility site , Todd Flowerday provides his own riff on the discussion of how Catholics should respond to trans pe...