William Lindsey

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3425 )

• End-of-Week News Roundup: Kansas, Arizona, Etc., by Way of Russia

  Rose Luippold at Huffington Post: "Now it seems the red scare has become the ultimate red state," Jones said. Indeed, he spoke to several Russian officials on... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• End-of-Week News Roundup: And Then There's Kansas (and Arizona, Maine, Tennessee...

  

  And then there's Kansas--and Arizona, Maine, Tennessee, Utah, Oklahoma, Indiana, and other states:Fred Clark at Slacktivist on Kansas: This bill is the epitome... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• End-of-Week News Roundup: From L.A. to Twin Cities to Japan, Virginia, and...

  

  As I read about the plans of Newark Archbishop John Myers to add yet more swank to an already swanky retirement house, I can't avoid, of course, thinking about... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• End-of-Week News Roundup: Archbishop John Myers Back in News, Now for Bling-Blin...

  

  Archbishop John MyersAs this work week ends, an offering of observations from news of the week that will, I hope, inspire you to read the whole article from... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• John Corvino, What's Wrong with Homosexuality?: "Born This Way?"

  

  In the chapter of John Corvino's book What’s Wrong with Homosexuality? (NY: Oxford UP, 2013) entitled "Born This Way," one line above all stands out for me: as... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Taking Leave of Mavis Gallant

  

  One of the unpleasant things about growing old (and this has often been noted, so it's not an original insight by any means) is that one more and more takes... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• On the Conservative Rhetoric of Entitlement: "Our Upper Class--Our Meritocratic...

  

  Call me dumb--call me very dumb--but on what earthly grounds do the current lords of Wall Street and the banking industry imagine themselves "entitled"? Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• U.S. Catholic Bishops' Anti-Contraception Battle and Legislation Targeting Gay...

  

  As Jill Filipovic notes at Common Dreams today, the logic underlying the horrific anti-gay legislation with which the Kansas legislature has recently flirted... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Contraception and More Contraception: The Religious-Political Debate That Won't...

  

  An interesting set of articles in just the past several days about the issue of contraception (and its political application in the U.S. Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis Releases Financial Report: Curious Steep Jum...

  

  In the financial report recently released (pdf) by the archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis providing details of its financial records for 2013, there's an... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• From Nigeria to Uganda to Russia to Kansas: The Common Thread of Christian...

  So here's what's going on in Nigeria right now: A mob attacked gay people in a neighborhood in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, dragging young men from their... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "'New Evangelization' Tactics Seem Based o...

  

  This is one of the good ones, one of the birdcage droppings that fertilize the mind: Questions from a Ewe asks why it is that the "Francis effect" seems to be... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Vatican Survey of Catholics for Synod on the Family: More Evidence (England,...

  

  Reports continue to come in from various parts of the world, noting how Catholics in various places have responded to the questionnaire that Pope Francis asked... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Amanda Marcotte on the "(Welcome) Wide View" of the Catholic Sex-Abuse Problem i...

  

  At Slate, Amanda Marcotte explains why the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child took a "wide" view of the sex abuse crisis in the Catholic church... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quote for Day: Thomas Frank on What's Still the Matter with Kansas

  

  Thomas Frank is incisive about the self-deluding, fatuous centrism (his word, and he's right) of the Democrats, who imagine that the sheer force of demographic... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Stephanie Krehbiel on the Woody Allen Case and the Problem of John Howard...

  

  A must-read article from this past week: Stephanie Krehbiel on the "Woody Allen Problem": how is it possible to read pacifist Mennonite theologian John Howard... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Panti Bliss on "Good" People, What Just Happened in Kansas, Parallels to Civil...

  

  Two days ago, I puzzled, as I frequently do here, over the seeming inability of the "good" people of the world to hear the kind of testimony that Irish drag... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Short Takes on News: Who Counts, Who Doesn't; Heroes and Heretics: "Religious"...

  

  Dictating who's in, who's out: The pronouns "we" and "they" are the most important of all political words. They demarcate who's within the sphere of mutual... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Division Over Gay Rights in U.S. Apparent Also in Global Catholic Church: Two...

  

  As the brief notes I posted prior to this about developments on the gay-rights front across the U.S. in just the past week suggest, the mind (and heart) of the... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Virginia, Kentucky, Idaho, Indiana, Wyoming, Kansas, Nevada, Colorado: Things Ar...

  

  So much is popping so quickly right now regarding questions of gay rights in the U.S., that it's almost impossible to keep up with all of the news. A quick... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY