Homosexuality wasn’t much on my radar at that time. Any fleeting thoughts I had about it were conventional, unreflective and negative. Without knowing very much about homosexuality, I was against it. It was a Bad Thing. What changed my mind…
Monthly Archives: May 2013
“From Wasteland to Promised Land: the Journey Continues” (Quest Conference 2013)
One of the earliest forms of ministry for lesbian and gay Catholics was the development of self - ministry ( Metropolitan Community Church) and support groups (Dignity USA and Quest UK for Catholics, Integrity for Anglicans). Quest this year celebrates…
Gay Marriage Testimony: The Value of Gay Parents
Delaware and Minnesota hit the gay marriage headlines this week, but there’s also been important movement elsewhere. In Nevada, a House committee heard testimony in the long process to repeal of the constitutional ban. (The Senate has already approved a bill…
The Catholics, Other Faith Groups Behind Minnesota Marriage Victory.
It’s not a done deal yet, but with comfortable passage through the Minnesota House tonight, approval by the Senate seems assured, and Governor Dayton has already promised to sign. It’s only a matter of time - and Catholics, once again,…
“The revolution of family” and the Catholic Response
The continuing spread of marriage equality (in Delaware yesterday, possibly continuing in Minnesota today and Illinois later this month) raised several challenges for the Catholic Church. Several leading churchmen have already spoken of support for civil unions, but the church…
Equal Marriage: Strengthening Families in Massachusetts?
Anybody still deluded by the irrational claim of opponents of gay marriage that equality will somehow undermine their understanding of the traditional family, should consider the actual evidence, from Massachusetts and elsewhere, which flatly contradicts the hypothesis In that state,…
Gay Marriage: Why Attitudes Have Evolved
Support for marriage equality has increased rapidly in recent years. A new research report from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life describes just how and why that support has changed so rapidly in the USA. The opponents of…
Celebrating the “Goodness” in Same - Sex Relationships
Increasing numbers of Catholic bishops have been expressing support for some form of legal recognition and protections for same - sex unions,Others are going beyond this essentially negative response to discrimination, and calling for active, positive celebration of our relationships,…
Gay Marriage Laws Forcing Responses From Churches.
As marriage equality laws continue to make progress around the world, the churches are being compelled to find their own responses to legal gay weddings and other forms of same - sex unions among their own members. Three examples from…
Soho Masses Community - Expanding LGBT Ministry
At a one day workshop, “After Warwick Street: Expanding LGBT Ministry”, 21 people associated with the Soho Masses Community came up with firm, personal commitments to extend and deepen their existing commitments to ministry to lesbian and gay Catholics. Yesterday,…
