William Lindsey

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• Sarah Posner on Uncle Sugar as Religious Bogeyman: Religious Right and Concern...

  

  I find Sarah Posner's take on Rev. Mike Huckabee's recent Uncle-Sugar-encourages-women's-libido remarks insightful: Sarah situates Huckabee's concern that the... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• National Catholic Reporter Calls for Criminal Investigation of Legion of...

  

  National Catholic Reporter's editorial calling for criminal investigation of the Legion of Christ minces no words. An editorial beginning with the following... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Public-Private Distinction About Double Standard of Catholic Institutions...

  

  At the risk of over-explaining (something I do altogether too easily), I'd like to elaborate on an elaboration I've already posted regarding my argument... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Religious Right (and Catholic Bishops) Discover Contraception: Steve Benen on...

  

  As Steve Benen notes for the Maddow Blog, it's sort of . . . funny . . . that "Republican politician/preacher/media-personality Mike Huckabee" is now ranting... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Financial Transparency Emerges as Major Theme in St. Paul-Minneapolis Abuse...

  

  To my mind, one of the strangest claims that apologists for the Catholic hierarchy who want to assist the hierarchy by bashing survivors of clerical sexual abus... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Pathological Narcissism and Growing Disparity Between Super-Rich and Everyone...

  

  Yesterday, evagrius provided a valuable link in a comment about my recent positing discussing abuse survivors' responses to the news that Pope Benedict defrocke... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Father Roy Bourgeois Writes Open Letter to Pope Francis: Heal the Wounds of Wome...

  

  Father Roy Bourgeois, who was defrocked in 2012 for supporting women's ordination, writes an open letter to Pope Francis:Dear Pope Francis, I have been... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mark Zmuda Story Featured in New York Times: Spotlight Remains on Francis and th...

  

  The firing of Mark Zmuda by Eastside Catholic high school in suburban Seattle (Sammamish, Washington) is in the national news again today with an article about... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Spotlight on Vatican Now Becomes Spotlight on Francis: A Footnote Re: Betty...

  

  As a footnote to my earlier posting today noting that the spotlight that recently shone on the Vatican at the UN hearing is now on Pope Francis himself, a reade... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Photographer Isa Leshko on Elderly Animals

  In all the dross one can encounter online, there are occasionally nuggets of inspiration that remain with me for weeks after I first see or read them. Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Spotlight on Vatican at Recent U.N. Grilling Now Becomes Spotlight on Francis

  

  After Vatican officials were forced to answer questions last week at the UN about the Vatican's handling of sexual abuse of minor by Catholic religious... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mormons and Gay Rights: 1995 Document on the Family Resurfaces as Marriage...

  

  Several points leap out at me as I read Andrew Sullivan's recent summary of Neil Young's discussion of the 1995 Mormon document "The Family":1. Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Thanks to Fred Clark for Recommending Bilgrimage in Slacktivist's "Daily Blog...

  

  I am very grateful to Fred Clark for recommending my Bilgrimage blog in his new year's list of "daily blogs of the day" to which I pointed Bilgrimage readers a... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Tom Roberts Responds to Michael Sean Winters: The "Narrow Range of Options"...

  

  Tom Roberts's NCR column "Contra MSW" seems me to get it just right. Roberts quickly zeroes in on what is for me the salient point in Michael Sean Winters's sla... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• And, Finally, for the Martin Luther King Holiday in the U...

  And, finally, for the Martin Luther King holiday in the U.S., one more video resource that has caught my eye recently: theologian James Cone (who grew up in... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Two Video Discussions of Pope Benedict's Defrocking of 400 Priests Who Had Abuse...

  Two video interviews discussing the AP report that, in 2011 and 2012 Pope Benedict defrocked some 400 priests who has abused children: in the first, Judy... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quote for Day: This Kind of Vitriol Is Designed to Silence Female Journalists

  Amy Wallace on what women often encounter when they speak out online and elsewhere (as opposed to men):This kind of vitriol is not designed to hold reporters... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Problems with Comments at Various Blogs?

  At various sites using Disqus for comments, there have been reports in the last few days that some readers of blogs suddenly can't see comments. Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• AP Reports That Benedict Defrocked 400 Abusive Priests: Vatican Denies Report,...

  Following the recent grilling of Vatican officials by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Nicole Winfield and John Heilprin of AP published a report... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Father Robert Nugent: A Eulogy by Theologian Mary Hunt

  It was right after National Catholic Reporter published a eulogy of Father Robert Nugent of New Ways Ministry by Kevin Eckstrom that the comments threads at... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY