William Lindsey

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• The Anti-Gay "Religious Freedom" Debate and Continued Calls for "Respectful...

  

  As I've been noting here for days now, isn't it interesting that, now that the culture appears to be making a decisive turn towards recognizing LGBT people as... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Anti-Gay "Religious Freedom" Arguments: A Collection of Recent Essays...

  

  A collection of excerpts from recent essays engaging the arguments being pushed right now by anti-gay "religious freedom" activists like the U.S. Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dan Savage on Despising and Discriminating Against Gay People As Quick Path to...

  

  Dan Savage comments on the recent vote in Springfield, Missouri, to repeal an ordinance protecting LGBT citizens from discrimination:These would be the same... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Disreputable Racist Genealogy of Anti-Gay "Religious Liberty" Arguments and...

  

  Ed Kilgore, who grew up in Georgia and knows whereof he speaks, points out that the current battle over "religious freedom" and the belief-based right to... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• New Ways Ministry on Catholics Responding to Anti-Gay "Religious Freedom" Laws:...

  

  At the New Ways Ministry blog, Bondings 2.0, today, Bob Shine summarizes various Catholic responses to the anti-gay "religious freedom" laws in Indiana and... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• U.S. Catholic Leaders Successfully Rebrand Their Church as Preëminent Church of...

  The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,The Daily Show on Facebook,Daily Show Video ArchiveStill in any doubt that the leaders of the U.S. Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Aristotle on Education as Education of Both Mind And Heart

  “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” ― Aristotle "Aristotle" by Francesco Hayez. pic.twitter. Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Two More Easter Monday Links: Pope Francis and Vatican on Abuse Crisis, Pope...

  

  Brazilian theologian Ivone Gebara to Adital (thanks to Iglesia Descalza)And two more Easter Monday links I've shared today on Facebook and Twitter, both having... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Easter Monday Collage: "They Wanted to Silence the Voices of Love, but the...

  

  An Easter Monday collage for you: articles I've read and shared this morning with friends on Facebook, all of which seem to me to have Easter pertinence,... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• An Easter Gift to Me, and Now to You: A Theological Conversation Between Ivone...

  Here's an Easter gift given to me by some wonderful people, which I want to give, in turn. to you (with more than a little hesitancy, because — I'll just say... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Giles Fraser: "A Church Is at Its Best When It Fails, When It Gives Up on All th...

  

  Giles Fraser in The Guardian on how Christianity is, in its most central affirmations, all about the failure of a man condemned to a humiliating death as a... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Abuse Crisis and the Church's Empty Tomb: Statements by Anne Barrett Doyle...

  

  On this Holy Saturday, a statement by Anne Barrett Doyle of Bishop Accountability to add to the ones about the revolt in the Chilean church over the episcopal... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Good Friday Meditation: Hearing the Gospel from Lips of a Gay Buddhist Actor (Bu...

  

  Some Good Friday meditation points for you, from a Buddhist who happens to be gay. The graphic above is from MSNBC's Facebook feed, pointing to a statement... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• As Culture-War Battle Against Gay Rights Is Being Lost, American Catholic Leader...

  

  Here's how it seems to me: in the past several weeks, American culture has just begun to turn a very important corner. An important national conversation is... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Continued Discussion of Revolt in Chilean Catholic Church: Pope's Refusal to...

  

  As a follow-up to the previous items I've posted (here and here) on the revolt in the Chilean Catholic church after Pope Francis chose to ignore the pleas of... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Arkansas Anti-Gay "Religious Freedom" Legislation: My Update from the Ground

  I see from the wonderful comments many of you left here yesterday and this morning that you've been busy, as I have, trying to keep atop the breaking news... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• And Now Arkansas. As the Nuns and Friars Grin and Jubilate. In Holy Week. (I'm...

  

  And now, as expected, Arkansas passes its version of the anti-gay "religious freedom" bill that is bringing Indiana such negative worldwide attention. Our... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Thanking You Kindly for Your Birthday Good Wishes

  

  I want to issue a note of thanks to all of you who left birthday greetings for me here yesterday. I'm deeply grateful for your kind expressions of... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Commentary on Indiana, Religious Freedom, and Gay Rights: How Anti-Gay "Religiou...

  It's this important. Tuesday's front page. #rfra pic.twitter.com/gVPf82J2iu— Mark Alesia (@markalesia) March 31, 2015A selection of excerpts from articles... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Grinning Nuns and Friars Standing Beside Anti-Gay Bigots: The Discussion the U.S...

  

  Twitter feed of Governor Pence, private signing, anti-gay "religious freedom" billPut together the photo above with the one below, and what picture do you see? Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY