William Lindsey

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• Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Bishop Tobin and the Lonely Corner into...

  

  One of the good droppings in the Catholic birdcage from the preceding week: Tony Adams's stellar response to Bishop Tobin's stinky "pastoral" letter to Rhode... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• "Honey Hide the Kids": New Evangelization Impeded by Moral Failure of Bishops...

  

  Archbishop John MyersI can't let this week end and another begin without mentioning, at least, the important story that has been reported of late from the... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Sunday Sermon: Holiness, Wholeness, and the Anti-Gay Stance of Catholic...

  

  Back in the era when the ferment that produced Vatican II began to bubble in the Catholic church, especially in vowed religious communities around the world,... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Commentary on Jason Collins's Coming Out: Importance of Hearing Gay Voices...

  

  A whole row of statements today at Huffington Post about the significance of NBA player Jason Collins's game-changing decision to come out of the closet:Actor... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Most Catholic State, Rhode Island, Enacts Marriage Equality, and Bishop Tobin...

  

  The "most Catholic" state in the union, Rhode Island, enacted marriage equality this week, and the response of Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence is to pen a... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• France and Marriage Equality, An Update: Ongoing Protests, with More Promised

  

  For those interested in what continues to go on in France after marriage equality was approved recently by Parliament in that nation, a brief update: as Delphin... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Cannibalism in Colonial Virginia, and Samsons Who Became Sallys and Thomasines...

  

  I'm not quite sure why the archeological findings confirming that the Jamestown settlers practiced cannibalism during the "starving time" of 1609-1610 have... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Alan McCornick on Marriage Equality and Moral Arc of History: Light Getting in...

  

  At his wry and wildly informative Hepzibah site, Alan McCornick traces the moral arc to which the current movement to recognize the full humanity of gay folks i... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Fred Clark: Liberals Again Undermining Authority of the Bible

  

  Along with Fred Clark, I'm shocked--shocked, I tell you!--that liberals keep ignoring the clear testimony of God's word in the Holy Bible and keep trying to... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• PPRI Fact Sheet on Gay Issues: 7 in 10 Millennials Support Marriage Equality (an...

  

  Last week, the Public Religion Research Institute published a fact sheet on gay and lesbian issues at the PPRI website. The fact sheet summarizes what... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• NCR's Choice to Censor My Comments About Cardinal Dolan's Appointment of a...

  

  Here's a follow-up to my posting yesterday about two comments National Catholic Reporter chose to remove from a thread discussing the appointment of Kim... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Frank Bruni on Why the Gays Don't Just Shut Up About It

  

  Frank Bruni on why those of us who are gay just don't shut up about it already:Many of us want to, and will: when a gay, lesbian or transgendered kid isn’t at... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Month of May, 1898: A Passage from My Forthcoming Book About Wilson R....

  

  And speaking of nature (I'm echoing here the sharp aphorism of Eduardo Galleano that I just posted): a constant theme throughout the writings of Wilson Bachelor... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• NBA Player Chris Collins Comes Out, and Chris Broussard Spouts Bible Verses:...

  

  It's interesting, isn't it, that the immediate and instinctual response of men like Chris Broussard to NBA player Jason Collins's choice to come out of the... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• "He Ate with Outcasts": Brief Update on Poster Project, for Readers Interested i...

  

  Both Mike McShea and Coolmom asked me in comments responding to my posting about Cardinal Dolan's "Dirty Freddie" story re: gay folks whether I might consider... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• His Eminence Chooses a New Spokeswoman, and National Catholic Reporter Chooses t...

  

  For those who may not yet have seen this news: the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced yesterday that His Eminence Timothy "Dirty Freddie" Dolan will... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• E. J. Graff on Gay Rights and the Courage of Conviction

  

  For The American Prospect, E. J. Graff explains how the determination of grass-roots activists has now made the extension of a full range of human rights to LGB... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Gays as Dirty Freddie: Cardinal Dolan Explains His Understanding of Catholic...

  

  I get the feeling that the leader of the U.S. Catholic bishops, Cardinal Dolan, may not have been taught much about manners as he was growing up. Or any time... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Cardinal Dolan's Easter Statement About Catholic Love for Gays: Adjusting...

  

  The Catholic church's just not doing well at communicating that love thing about which His Eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan spoke on Easter Sunday, is it?... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ice-Cream Trucks and Mysteries of the Universe: A Poem

  

  There are mysteries in the universe.Why does the ice-cream truck play "It's a Grand Old Flag?"Why are some dreams as grave as woodcuts?Especially when death's... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY