LGBT faith groups have an obviously important part to play in shaping attitudes and fostering inclusion within faith communities, and also in countering the misperceptions about religion and homoerotic relationships in debates and political struggles over marriage equality. But our…
Monthly Archives: September 2013
The Return of the (Gay) Prodigal
Sunday 15th September, the 24th Sunday of the year (year C) was also designated as Mission Sunday, for the church in England and Wales., In the second reading for day, we heard in the first letter to Timothy, Beloved: I am…
Re-Evangelising the Church: Lapsed (LGBT) Catholics
The Tablet had a recent news item concerning some things Bishop Kieran Conry had said about conscience and contraception. This was guaranteed to catch my attention: Bishop Kieran is the ordinary for my own local diocese of Arundel and Brighton,…
British Catholics Are Tolerant of Same - Sex Sexual Relations
New British research corroborates regular American findings that Catholics in general are tolerant of homoerotic sexual relationships, and that in the population at large, the rate of disapproval is now low, and dropping rapidly. The British Social Attitudes Survey released…
Confessional: Time of Transition, Time of Waiting.
There’s a story about a married couple, in which the husband was explaining about the very reasonable, equitable division of responsibilities and decisions in their relationships. He took care of the big, difficult issues and decisions, and his wife the…
Pope Francis: “Your Homosexuality? It Doesn’t Matter” (Updated)
At the end of July, in an impromptu press conference, Pope Francis famously replied to a question about gay priests with the words, “Who am I to judge?”, This may have contributed to a decision by a young French man,…
Introducing NALT - “Christians Are Not All Like That”
If you haven’t yet come across the letters NALT - you’ll soon be seeing them, again and again (and that’s good). Some time ago, a QTC reader suggested to me that a kind of Catholic version of the “It Gets…
Share Your Story - With an Italian Project on Faith and Homosexuality.
Duigan McGinley describes gay Catholic autobiographies as “sacred texts” (in “Acts of Faith, Acts of Love”), because in reading the stories of others who have struggled with some of the issues we share in dealing with the apparent conflicts between…
A Key to Romans 1 - Hiding in Plain Sight
At Bible - thumping Liberal, the straight ally and evangelical Christian Ron Goetz asks a crucially important question: HOW DO I RECONCILE PAUL WITH MY SUPPORT FOR LGBT FOLKS? August 27, 2013 I just got an email from Harold, one of…
The Distorted Christian Tradition on Marriage
As the prospect of gay marriage is once again in the news is some American states, American Catholic Bishops are once again railing against the supposed dangers inherent in marriage equality. In New Mexico, county clerks are issuing marriage licences…
