In the wake of revelations about the National Organization for Marriage’s racial wedge strategy, the pro-LGBT coalition of Catholics, Equally Blessed, is calling on the Church and the Knights of Columbus to sever ties with the organization. NOM’s anti-gay-marriage “Not…
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Catholic school loses cool over Facebook prank gay kisses
Catholic officials can become very heavy handed at the slightest hint of homosexuality. A Facebook school prank that misfired, with pretend kisses between six teenage boy students, was enough to get the lads banned from their own high school graduation.…
Cardinal Schonborn: Openly Gay Catholic MAY Serve on Parish Council
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, who leads the Roman Catholic Church in Austria, has apparently confirmed that an openly homosexual man may serve on the parish council at a church in Stutzenhofen – a town in the Weinviertel region. Florian Stangl was…
“Against Nature?”: Exclusive HETEROsexuality, and HomoPHOBIA.
A recurring theme in the Catholic bishops’ campaigns against gay marriage, is the claim that it is somehow “against nature”, or contrary to “natural law”. In its theological sense, “natural law” does not (surprisingly) mean anything at all connected with…
UK Christian Group PCN Pledges Support for Gay Marriage
The Progressive Christianity Network (PCN) is the latest British faith-based group to come out in favour of legal recognition of gay marriage. Reverend John Churcher, a Methodist minister and chair of the PCN, said in response to comments from Roman…
CoE Group on Human Sexuality Appoints Advisers
The group chaired by Sir Joseph Pilling to advise the House of Bishops on the Church of England’s approach to human sexuality has appointed three advisers. They are the Revd Dr Jessica Martin, Priest-in-charge of Duxford, of Hinxton and of…
Catholic Gay Marriage Disputes: Australia
In Australia, the Catholic bishops of Victoria have joined their counterparts elsewhere in the English-speaking world, by expending extraordinary energies refusing to strengthen marriage by extending it to all couples. Instead, they are sending out letters to the state’s Catholics this…
Matthew Vines: “The Bible and Homosexuality” (Video)
Cardinal Martini, on Gay Partnerships
I am delighted to be able to offer not just a summary, but the full text of the L’Espresso article on Cardinal Martini’s book with its support for gay partnerships. (The translation is not my own, but kindly done for…
Queer Self- Ministry: Transforming the Churches
As I reflect on the past half century or so, and the remarkable transformation during that time in the churches’ responses to homoerotic relationships, I identify five key trends that have contributed to it. The first of these, a reassement…
