William Lindsey

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• Chris Morley on Bullying Threats of Ireland's Catholic Bishops in the Marriage...

  

  Chris Morley, who provides one valuable report after another for this blog about events taking place in the U.K., has just sent me a posting about what's... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Story of the Refusal of the Episcopal Cathedral in Orlando to Baptize the So...

  

  For a variety of reasons, I've been following with some interest the story of the refusal of Anthony Clark, dean of the Episcopal cathedral in Orlando, St. Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Slavery, the Myth of American Innocence, and the Heritage of Historic Racism in...

  

  White America, as it turns out, has a long and storied tradition of not knowing, and I don't mean this in the sense of truly blameless ignorance, for this... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Quick Note About My Moderation of Comments Here

  Dear Folks,As those who've been following this blog for any length of time may know, I like to try to respond to any comments here that address me directly —... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Musical Evening About "Slavery and Song": A Resource to Recommend to You

  In a posting here last October, I mentioned that we had with us friends from Edinburgh, Ian and Donna Gilmour, and that Ian had a sabbatical fellowship from... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Tom Doyle on What Bishop Finn's Failed Pastoral Leadership Cost Kansas City...

  

  Father Tom Doyle, OP, at National Catholic Reporter, on what Bishop Robert Finn's failed pastoral leadership cost the Kansas City diocese in dollars and cents:... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Lay Catholics Remind Francis That Pretty Talk About Women's Equality Means Littl...

  

  In an essay that has just been published by National Catholic Reporter, Jamie Manson notes that, while the media grab at zingy quotations by Pope Francis about... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Catholics, Vote on the Basis of Abortion...

  

  In a piece of centrist politico-religious commentary at Religion News Service yesterday that I find singularly unconvincing, Georgetown Ph.D. Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• As Pope Francis's Encyclical on Environment Nears, Attempts by Big Oil to Subver...

  

  As various news sources are reporting that Pope Francis's encyclical on the environment will be published next month, there's interesting reporting and... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quote for Day: Bill Quigley of Loyola Law School to Justices Scalia and Alito —...

  

  From Bill Quigley of Loyola University (New Orleans) Law School, an appeal to the consciences of Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito: "Have... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• In a Comment Here This Weekend, Chris Morley Has Kindly p...

  

  In a comment here this weekend, Chris Morley has kindly posted a report about the forthcoming referendum on marriage equality in Ireland. Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• More Things I'm Reading at Week's End: Baltimore, Racism, White Privilege,...

  

  More stuff I'm reading as this week ends — these resources are about what's happening right now in Baltimore, about the need of white Americans to understand an... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Things I'm Reading at Week's End: Marriage, Bible, Catholics, Women's Rights,...

  

  Things I'm reading as this week ends — these items all connected in that they talk about issues of religion in the public square:At her Extra Ecclesiam Est... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Peter Isely on the Resignation of Bishop Finn, Abuse Survivors, and...

  

  A valuable piece of commentary from Peter Isely of SNAP Wisconsin, in his Facebook feed recently, about the resignation of Bishop Robert Finn and the pomegranat... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Why Antonin Scalia Found the Outburst of a Nutcase Shouting About Hell and...

  

  In his commentary in the New Yorker today on the arguments in yesterday's Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court hearing about same-sex marriage, Jeffrey Toobin... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Lull in Conversation

  From one side, I have people throwing rocks at me and accusing me of being unfair to poor Bishop Finn and to the Catholic clergy in general — accusing me of... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Baltimore Burns: Limits of Rhetoric of Non-Violence in Face of Systemic...

  

  Two takes this morning on what's happening in Baltimore that I find illuminating:Ta-Nehisi Coates for The Atlantic:When nonviolence is preached as an attempt... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Controversy Over Choice of Wealthy Gay NYC Businessmen to Host Benefit for Ted...

  

  No matter what happens with the deliberations about marriage equality at the Supreme Court today (and in the weeks following), we who are LGBT in the U.S. and... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quote for Day: Conservative Evangelicals Resisting Gay Rights Use Bible Today...

  

  William N. Eskridge, Jr., professor of law at Yale Law School, writing yesterday in the New York Times:Race relations in this country show how religious practic... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Finn Story and What Crystallizes Lay Catholic Anger About the Abuse Crisis: ...

  

  And — it has to be said — (piggybacking on my first posting today) photos like the following absolutely do not help many of us lay Catholics overcome our anger... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY