Here’s the trendline: In 2004, 54% of respondents in a Brigham Young University poll all forms of recognition for same - sex couples, either as full marriage, or as civil unions. In 2012, 29% in a follow - up Brigham…
Monthly Archives: January 2014
“How to Be Happy, Catholic and Gay” (Towards a 12 - step Recovery Program)
Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s music, laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so, Benedicamus Domino. - Hilaire Belloc The problem for too many LGBT Catholics (and other Christians), even the suggestion of being…
Cathedral Dean: “Same-sex marriage gives us another image of what marriage can be.”
Research evidence disproves the claims by religious and political opponents that gay marriage results in “irreparable harm” to society, or that it harms traditional marriage. The string of court decisions in favour of marriage equality, and striking down state bans…
How Gay Marriage Can “Redefine” Marriage - for the Better [VIDEO]
In this video from Atlantic magazine, Liza Mundy and Hanna Rosin discuss a cover story from the magazine, (“The Gay Guide to Wedded Bliss”) on how insights from decades of social science research show not merely that gay relationships can…
Gay Marriage: After Utah - Oklahoma!
Where next - Alabama? Mississippi? Two couples in Oklahoma on Tuesday won a court ruling that Oklahoma’s ban on same - sex marriage is unconstitutional. This action, in progress since 2004 (immediately after the ban was approved by voters) was…
The Christian Manifesto: “He Has Sent Me …..to Set the Downtrodden Free”
Rush Limbaugh responded to Pope Francis’ criticism of “unbridled” capitalism by denouncing it as “pure Marxism”.The allegation is plainly ridiculous, but if Rush is that alarmed by Francis’ criticism, he’d be well advised to steer well clear of reading the…
Welcome, CARDINAL Vincent Nichols!
It’s no surprise, but good to have it confirmed/ Vincent Nichols of Westminster is included among the new cardinals named today by Pope Francis, for inclusion in next month’s consistory. This appointment should be welcomed, by LGBT Catholics everywhere.
Is Pope Francis a “Disappointment” on Women and Gays?
At Religion Dispatches, Mary E Hunt has written about Pope Francis that there are “Three Things That Worry Me“. She’s not alone. Amid the general euphoria and adulation that Pope Francis has received and in the secular press, there’ve been…
St Aelred of Rievaulx, Abbot and Patron of Same Sex Spiritual Love
St Aelred, whose feast we celebrate today, is recognised in all sources as an important English saint, who lived in the north of England in the 12 C. As a young man, he joined the Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx, later…
English Queer Catholics, Engaging With the Church
As part of the Catholic global consultation on marriage and family, LGBT Catholics Westminster Pastoral Council,(formerly known as the Soho Masses Pastoral Council) has made a submission to the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales (read the full text at Mark Dowd’s…
