William Lindsey

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• Judge Carlton Reeves on Parallel Between Mississippi White Christians'...

  

  Claude Summers draws the obvious historical parallel between Mississippi Judge Carlton Reeves's recent dismissal of Mississippi's "religious freedom" law as... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• "I'm Done Believing That Religion Will Help Black People Get Justice in America"...

  Church. If yours was silent, indifferent, passive, defensive, vague concerning this week's pain - time to teach, grieve, or maybe, move on. Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• "We've Seen the Videos. The Difference Between You and Me Isn't a Matter of...

  

  Chris Lebron, New York Times: If America had decided that black lives do matter when it had the chance, the cycle of violence that has robbed us and threatens t... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Krzysztof Charamsa Publishes Book Explaining Choice to Come Out as a Gay...

  

  As many of you will know, shortly before the Catholic Synod on the Family opened, a Polish priest, Monsignor Krzysztof Charamsa, who worked in the Vatican's... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "It Is Another Thing Entirely When You...

  

  At his Sound of Sheer Silence blog, Michael Boyle notes that Cardinal Robert Sarah is the new darling of the Catholic right, particularly in the U.S. Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Then and Now: A Nation Awash with Blood, Torn by Racially Driven Violence,...

  

  Charles Pierce, Politics Blog at EsquireThe universe has physical laws: For every action, there's a reaction.The universe also has moral laws: 1. Those who... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bloody Summer of 2016 and Coming U.S. Elections: "A Great Sorting on the Trump...

  

  America,Put the gun on the ground and step away.Please.— Amanda Kerri (@eternalkerri) July 8, 2016The testimony of President Barack Obama, by way of Caitlin... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• "This Is Actually Happening, and It's Real, and It's Right Now": Christian...

  Gay (former) Mormon Tyler Glenn in a video he posted to Facebook on 5 July (the video above), about the suicide of LGBTQ Mormon youth after the Church of Jesus... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• "Most Whites Saw Civil Rights Not in Terms of Black Liberties, but As a Loss of...

  

  Read Jason Sokol's There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975 (NY: Knopf, 2006) as the 2016 elections approach, and the... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Betty Clermont on Real Goal of Catholic Bishops' "Religious Freedom" Campaign,...

  

  As the U.S. Catholic bishops threw their 2016 "Fortnight for Freedom" shindig several days ago, Betty Clermont issued the following valuable reminder of what th... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quote for Day: "We Have to Confess . . . That the Genealogy of Gay Suffering...

  

  Michael Coren was once a leading opponent of marriage equality in Canada. His recently published book Epiphany: A Christian’s Change of Heart Mind Over... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Jason Sokol on White Southern Resistance to Civil Rights Movement (and "Religiou...

  

  In his book There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975 (NY: Knopf, 2006), Jason Sokol writes about the response of white... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Pope Benedict's News About Powerful Gay Lobby (of 4 Or 5 Men) Breaks As...

  

  Remember when there was a Commie (or a queer) lurking under every bed in the U.S., ready to sell the nation out to its enemies, subverting it from the inside... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quote for Day: "The Church's Position on Homosexuality Illustrates Why It's So...

  

  At Salon, Sean Illing argues that with his comments about apologizing to gay people, Pope Francis did not go far enough in addressing the anti-LGBTQ effects of... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sensational News Report That Benedict . . . of All People . . . Broke Up a Gay...

  

  The sensational story that the Vatican contained a "gay lobby" before Pope Benedict . . . of all people . . . broke it up, a story making the rounds of news... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Following Papal Statement About Apologizing to Gay People, U.S. Lay Catholic...

  

  When I posted several days ago about Pope Francis's statement that the Catholic church should apologize to gay people (and others it has targeted and harmed),... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Pope Francis on Apologizing to the Gay Community: "Still Locates the Problem...

  Pope Francis is speaking about gays and lesbians in ways that would have gotten anyone else disciplined, censured or silenced ten years ago. Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Pope Francis: Gay People Should Be Respected, Accompanied Pastorally, and...

  If you can't understand how the church has marginalized the LGBT community, then you've not been listening to the LGBT community. Ask them. Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Commentary on U.S. Catholic Bishops and "Religious Liberty" Crusade As "Fortnigh...

  This week, the U.S. Catholic bishops began their latest "Fortnight for Freedom" shindig, whose purpose is to drive Catholic voters to the polls to vote... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Online Discussions of LGBTQ Lives at...

  

  Three instructive comments by Catholics discussing the Orlando massacre at Catholic news and blog sites:Here's a reader with the username Sonus Silentium... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY