“….the grace of “queer” theory is that it says “very well then, instead of tolerating them and putting them in a box aside or discriminating against them as certain fundamentalists do, and persecuting them and punishing them, and even killing…
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Gays for Jesus: Catholic and Evangelical
“Can gays, lesbians and transgender people be evangelical Christians? ” is a question asked at Huffington Post, introducing a preview of a forthcoming cover story at Maisonneuve magazine: “Gays for God: The Queer Evangelical Movement is Coming out of the Closet”.…
Victim 0001: Fr Mychal Judge, gay saint of 9/11
As we reflect on the the tragedy that was 9/11, and as we as LGBT Catholics face the fierce resistance by Catholic bishops to marriage equality, let us recall eleven years later, that the first victim carried out of the…
Ministry: What is the Point of Queer Christian Support Groups?
As part of the Pride faith programme in the build-up to London’s World Pride Festival last June, the MCC scheduled a discussion on “Is there still a need for a gay church?”. One could usefully ask the same question about…
Queer Lessons in Cardinal Martini’s Warning From the Grave
Two weeks before he died,Cardinal Martini gave a notable interview with the Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, in which he made a fundamentally important statement and asked a crucial question, reported by the New York Times as “The church is 200…
