Most Catholics, in the US, in the UK, and many other countries, support marriage equality, often precisely because of their Catholic values. However, with the very vocal, high profile campaigns by many bishops against equality legislation, or promoting discrimination by…
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Equal Civil Marriage - more cold water poured on it by Church of England
Echoes of Catholic Archbishops’ opposition The Church of England has been accused of scaremongering in its opposition to civil marriage equality. It has sent in its formal 13 page response to the government’s proposals and included some sound-bite red herrings…
UK Gay Marriage (1): Backed by 60% of “People of Faith”.
Gay marriage is top of the British news today, with the government consultation set to end later this week. With their hysterical submission released this morning, with bizarre claims that gay marriage represents the greatest threat to religion since the…
Britain needs more gay and religious free speech. Change the law now
Intended to protect us from harassment, the Public Order Act gives the police a free pass for harassing ordinary people. Section 5 of the Public Order Act is criticised by free speech campaigners. I think LGBT Catholics should be joining…
Straight Mormon Allies at Gay Pride, in Nine US Cities.
A week ago, some 300 Mormon straight allies joined the Utah gay pride parade under the name “Mormons Building Bridges“. A few days later, on Friday last week, Joanna Brooks reported at Religions Dispatches that another Mormon group would be…
Catholic, HIV Positive and One of God’s Children
Catholics for Choice is a US organisation campaigning about sex & sexuality, HIV, religion in public policy, abortion & contraception and new reproductive health technologies. It has many things of interest to LGBTQ Catholics, among them this personal account from…
US Catholic hospital refuses to treat gay man living with HIV - God’s Judgement
A gay HIV-positive man is suing a US Catholic hospital in the city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, just across the Hudson River from Brooklyn, New York, for illegal discrimination against him because he is both gay and has HIV. The…
Catholic priests’ rebellion spreads: Freiburg, Germany
Theologians have voiced resistance in German speaking countries, together with priests in Austria, Belgium and Ireland - and now Freiburg diocese, Germany: Priests defy Rome over Communion for remarried divorcees. 6 June 2012 One hundred and forty priests from…
The ‘Patron Saint of Transvestites’ is said to be Charles, aka Lia, d’Éon de Beaumont
Charles (or Lia when in female dress) d’Éon de Beaumont was an extraordinary transvestite character, a French Catholic, a diplomat, a soldier, and a spy who lived for over 80 years in both France and England. He spent about half…
Tips for Gay Parents: Help Your Kids to Cope with Teasing.
The “It Gets Better” project and the expansion of school gay-straight alliances have brought welcome attention to the problem of homophobic bullying - but there’s another kind of bullying affecting queer families, one that gets rather less attention. The children…
