While meddling bishops in Minnesota are dividing the Church over gay marriage, and those in Mexico are working themselves into a froth over gay adoption, their counterparts in the Philippines are doing their best to destroy the church over -…
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Queer Catholics Are Equally Blessed: Press Release
EQUALLY BLESSED UNITES CATHOLIC VOICES FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY, JUSTICE WASHINGTON, DC., Four longstanding Catholic organizations announced today that they have formed Equally Blessed, a coalition of faithful Catholics who support full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people…
What Gay Catholics Have Done: US Marine Walker Burttschell
When I was in Catholic high school, our RE teacher used to assure us that Catholics were statistically less likely to commit suicide because we had a wonderful, free psychotherapy service available - in the confessional. Well, that may be…
Anti-gay Bullying is a Theological Issue - Cody Sanders
Schools everywhere are aware of the problem of bullying in general, and aim to combat it. Yet when the topic is more specifically homophobic bullying directed at gay or lesbian kids, too many religious leaders back track and refuse to…
“Catholics for Equality”: Are US Bishops Undermining Pope Benedict’s Message?
During the build-up to Pope Benedict’s UK visit, several of our conservatice rule-book bloggers expressed dismay at what they saw as the wayward line of Archbishop Vincent Nichols as head of the English Church, and as ordinary for the diocese…
What Gay Catholics Have Done: Suicide
All lesbian and gay Catholics must find a resolution between their orientation and the contradictory teaching of the Vatican, with its offensive, theologically, scripturally and psychologically unsound document “HomosexualitatisProblema“. We do this in many ways: some attempt to work within…
Andrew Shirvell Watch
Andrew Shirvell is Michigan’s assistant attorney general, who “to put it mildly, opposes gay rights.” He is an alumnus of the University of Michigan, and seems to have been personally affronted when Chris Armstrong became the first openly gay student…
