William Lindsey

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3425 )

• Quote for Day: "Why Is It an Animal Being Shot Gathers More Empathy Than Black...

  Why is it an animal being shot gathers more empathy than black people being killed for nothing in America. #Iknowtheanswer #whiteracisttears— ProfB... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Doctored Gotcha Planned Parenthood Video and Catholic Responses to It: Some...

  

  I haven't talked about that doctored gotcha video made by David Daleiden, who is in cahoots with the odious right-wing gotcha activist James O'Keefe. Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Kenyan Catholic Bishops Oppose Polio...

  

  One minute, the Catholic bishops of Kenya are up in arms about the fact that the U.S. president dares to defend the human rights of a criminalized minority grou... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Stephanie Krehbiel on Violence, Community, and Struggle for LGBTQ Justice in...

  

  I've mentioned the work of Mennonite American Studies scholar Stephanie Krehbiel here in the past — for instance, in this February 2014 posting highlighting an... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Men (American Ones) and Their Guns: Two Takes on Lafayette Shooting

  

  Hot off the press this morning, two noteworthy observations about the shooting in Lafayette, Louisiana, on Thursday: Fred Clark at Slacktivist: "He was... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Frightening Picture Emerging of Yesterday's Shooter, John Russell Houser:...

  The Westboro Baptist Church may be the last real church in America[members not brainwashed].— john russell houser (@jrustyhouser) June 5, 2013The disturbing... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Skyrocketing Incidence of Mass Shootings in U.S.: Link to "Aggrieved Entitlement...

  

  In an online essay published yesterday at the Society Pages site, Tristan Bridges and Tara Leigh Tober ask why it's men who commit the mass shootings in the... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Tuba Libre: Laughter and Music Combined As Powerful Tool of Social Commentary —...

  Ben Collins writes,Matt Buck walked alongside a Klan rally with his sousaphone on Saturday, farting out a low, slow version of Wagner’s "Ride of the Valkyries"... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• As Catholic Institutions Still Fire Gay Employees Who Marry, Two Mennonite...

  

  At Inside Higher Education and Slate, Scott Jaschik reports that two Mennonite colleges — Eastern Mennonite University and Goshen College — announced on Monday... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Reminder from Think Progress of What Women and Others Put Up with Online, and...

  From Think Progress, a reminder of what women (and gay folks, and people who call for an end to racial injustice in American society, and others) put up with... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• SNAP on Premature Forgiveness and Harm It Does to Abuse Survivors: The Need for ...

  

  Today, I'd like to share with you a statement from Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP), which appeared a few days ago at Marci Hamilton's blog,... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Right-Wing Catholics Suddenly Tired of Pope's Scoldings? Where Were These Folks...

  

  Well, isn't this special? Right-wing Catholics Elizabeth Scalia and Carl Olson are tried of being "scolded" and "harangued" by a pope, as David Gibson reports i... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Thoughts Following the Funeral of a Friend Today: The Rare Gift of Being There...

  

  I'm sorry to be slow to blog today and to respond to comments, folks. Today was the funeral of a friend and neighbor of ours, who died suddenly last week. Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Steve Neumann on Franklin Graham As Donald Trump of Religious Right: Racist,...

  

  At Salon today, Steve Neumann maintains that, with Rev. Billy Graham's son and heir to the throne Rev. Franklin Graham, the religious right is having a "Donald... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Gay Priest and Gay Former Priest Speak Out: Time for Catholic Leaders to Stop...

  

  As I noted here back in May, after Seton Hall University chaplain Father Warren Hall posted a picture on Facebook supporting the NOH8 campaign to challenge... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Confederate Flags Come Down, Trump Shoots Up in Polls: Rick Perlstein on...

  

  For Talking Points Memo, Rick Perlstein points out that just as the Angel of History was flapping her wings to take the racist Confederate flag down from... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• "You Can't Say You Love Someone . . . and Then Disagree with a Positive...

  

  Colin Israel writes an open letter to an uncle who informs Colin that he loves him, but cannot accept the Supreme Court's marriage equality decision due to... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Study War No More Or He Taught Me How to Watch, Fight, and Pray?: Bellicose...

  Another of those captcha-like postings designed to prove that a real human being and not a monkey is typing these meandering musings:A few weeks back, I dream... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Douglas Laycock on U.S. Catholic Bishops and Marriage Equality: "Being on the...

  

  Father Thomas Reese reports today at National Catholic Reporter that University of Virginia professor Douglas Laycock thinks "being on the losing side of a... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Reader Writes: "It Turns Out That It Was Obviously Stupid to Think That There...

  

  I find Annika's comment in response to my recent posting about my Southern roots and the Confederate flag fascinating. Annika writes, When I first got into... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY