William Lindsey

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3425 )

• Want to Know Why Americans Rank the Catholic Church as Most Unfriendly...

  

  Want to know why 58% of Americans think that the Catholic church is unfriendly to LGBT people? — the most unfriendly of all religious groups to LGBT folks,... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quote for the Day: "We Must Love One Another, Whatever Our Condition in Life,...

  

  I'm reading Alexander McCall Smith's Love Over Scotland (NY: Random House, 2006) now, and love this passage in which he comments on the reunion of lonely... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Yes, I Did Remove a Comment Here About "Ethnocentric Racists" Promoting...

  

  A quick note to let you know about this situation, in case it explodes in some way in threads here: those who have followed postings here for some time may... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• "Silence Is a Most Powerful Consent": Lay Catholics Challenging (or...

  

  First, there's this: Silence is a most powerful consent . . . . If you’re reading this and you go to church every Sunday but you know that discrimination is... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "And Thus, This Man's Life Ended"

  

  Pope Francis yesterday, in a homily at St. Martha's House in Rome, speaking about someone censored by Catholic authorities who was, Father Robert Imbelli... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Footnote to Brendan Eich Discussion: Yes, It Is About Gender, Race, and Sexual...

  

  "In discourse and analysis," Catholic feminist theologian Ivone Gebara says (citing French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu) "the male vision of the world is... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hobby Lobby's a Person, but in Light of Brendan Eich Case, We Now Want to Ask...

  

  This is quite an interesting debate, isn't it? On the one hand, we have the owners of a large corporation, Hobby Lobby, appealing to the Supreme Court to... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Another Footnote: Parents Meet at Charlotte Catholic High to Discuss Sister...

  

  And, finally today, another footnote to material I've previously posted here: several days ago, I told readers about the controversy brewing in the Catholic... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Money Talks: The Sincerity of the Green Family as a Moral Trump Card in...

  

  Another footnote to what I have just written about yesterday's Supreme Court McCutcheon decision and its clear Catholic connections:Follow the discussion... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Money Talks: More Critical Commentary on the Recent Testimony of Cardinal Pell i...

  

  As a footnote to what I just wrote about the patent Catholic connection to yesterday's Supreme Court McCutcheon ruling, which is the kind of ruling one has to... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Supremes' McCutcheon Decision: Surprise! White Men Who Own Things Count...

  

  What was I saying just the other day about how money talks? Especially for the U.S. Supremes, a majority of whom are themselves (white) men who own things? Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Mother Jones Article About Hobby Lobby...

  

  At Commonweal, Grant Gallicho responds to Margaret O'Brien Steinfels's claim that the Mother Jones article about Hobby Lobby's retirement plan (with its heavy... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quote of Day: Vatican Punishes Gender Equality More Swiftly Than Sexual Abuse

  

  Patricia Miller on the alacrity with which the Vatican moves to punish priests supporting gender equality, as contrasted with the snail's pace at which it... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Wrinkle in Hobby Lobby Case: Company's Retirement Plan Heavily Invested in...

  

  With the case Sibelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, the Green family who own the Hobby Lobby chain have brought to the highest court in the United States a claim... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Review of David I. Kertzer's The Pope and Mussolini by Father Emmett Coyne

  

  I'm pleased to share with readers the following review of David I. Kertzer's book The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: They Have Plenty to Say About Their...

  

  Ryan, writing in response to my posting yesterday about Brother Dominic Mary Verner's musings about why the gays don't always feel the love when Christians... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Rachel Held Evans on How Evangelicals Won a Culture War and Lost a Generation

  

  Rachel Held Evans explains to CNN readers why millennials are leaving the churches in droves, and telling pollsters that their reason for walking away is the... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Jack Waterford on Cardinal Pell and "the Authoritarian, Cold, Unfeeling, and...

  

  It appears I may not be the only person in the world who thinks that many of the bishops now leading my church have overdrawn their moral credibility: here's... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• David Gans on Hobby Lobby: Whose Rights Count--Owners' Or Workers'? (and Hobby...

  

  At the Balkinization blog, David Gans offers one of the clearest explanations I've read of the fundamental issue at stake in the Hobby Lobby case about religiou... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Obamacare and Real People: Continued Erosion of Moral Credibility of U.S....

  

  As Obamacare enrollment surged yesterday to meet the goal the administration had originally set for program enrollments, Rachel Maddow aired a segment last nigh... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY