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RDPulpit: Gays Welcomed Fallible Pope

By John J. McNeill

…reative one. For our survival we have a special need to become mature, self-motivated, autonomous people, no longer dependent on outside homophobic sources for a sense of our identity and well-being. We must not let our enemies outside ourselves define us; we must let the Spirit of love that dwells within our hearts define us. As the Catholic philosopher Maurice Blondel expressed it: “Our God dwells within us and the only way we can become one wit…

Church=State in Putin’s Orthodox Empire?; Evangelical-Orthodox Anti-Gay Alliance; Malaysian Court Protects Transwomen; Catholicism (Still) Declining in Latin America; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…openly is the biggest hurdle to overcome for British Muslims, Claire, a 28-year-old Birmingham-based Muslim convert, says it’s only the beginning of the struggle. “As an LGBT Muslim, I face discrimination in the gay community. They say I cannot be gay and Muslim but I can. No one can judge you for who you are – you decide that.” Claire also observes this hostility within the Muslim community. Recently engaged to her partner, she says she does not…

God at the Gay Pride Parade

By Peter Montgomery

…Very Rev. Gary Hall, Dean of the Cathedral, in Saturday’s pride parade. In March, Hall spoke at a marriage equality rally before the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two marriage cases; the Cathedral announced in January that it would perform wedding ceremonies for same-sex couples. “Religion row” at Sunday’s Capital Pride festival featured a wide range of offerings. For some LGBT people who walked or were pushed away from their faith, having…

Massacre of Jesuits in El Salvador: 20 Years Later

By Richard Amesbury

…ogram for the poor; and their domestic employee Julia Elba Ramos and her 15-year-old daughter Celina, who had sought refuge inside the Jesuit dormitory that fateful night because of heavy fighting in the capital. Somewhere between 75,000 and 100,000 Salvadorans are believed to have died during the civil war, and they too are acknowledged as presente. In what has become an annual tradition, students on Saturday decorated the main street of the univ…

Norwegian Catholic Church May Stop Civil Marriages; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…mpact that silencing hate crimes has on LGBT people. Although Russia’s anti-gay-propaganda law, passed in 2013, prohibits the dissemination of information about “non-traditional” sexual relations to minors, the flashmob’s activities should not have been criminal as long as the pamphlets were distributed only to adults. But the procession was cut short when police stopped participants and demanded they remove the tape from their mouths and cease di…

Right Wing Catholics Attack Obama Faith-Based Council Member, Harry Knox

By Frances Kissling

…who had, according to her, demanded that Catholic legislators who were pro-choice must be denied communion. Another signer, Austin Ruse, head of C-Fam, a right wing Catholic lobby at the UN had once joked that he had been offered a plenary indulgence if he would only “take out” Hillary Clinton. To make things perfectly clear, Ruse added that it wasn’t a “date” he was talking about. What, you may ask, could Harry have said that was more virulent t…

Holy Father, You’re Not Helping: The Problem with the Pope’s Plan to Consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

By Katherine Kelaidis

…lectively interested in keeping at bay, adding fuel to their fire seems ill-advised. Also, not to steal Chrissy Stroop’s gig, but it’s really not okay to make other people your non-consensual missionary project. And it’s nonsensical to try to convert a person—or a country—that’s already converted. Unless you don’t think they really are converted; and as we’ve already discussed, in light of the history of East-West Christian relations it’s easy to…

Why We Stay: What the History of Mormonism Reveals About the Origins of “Race”

By Max Mueller

…ck Mormon pioneers (I’m so blessed to have had the support of James’s great-great-grandson, Louis Duffy, as a research partner and confidante during much of the writing of the book). And I’ve befriended many of the contemporary black Mormon pioneers and their allies within and outside the LDS Church who turn to James as a spiritual matriarch. My hoped-for audience also includes Native American Mormons as well as the descendants of Native Americans…

LGBT Human Rights in UN Sustainable Development Negotiation; Swiss Bishop Says Speaking of ‘Family Diversity’ is ‘Attack on the Creator’; Canadian Food Bank’s Anti-Gay Dogma; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ation is Catholic. In a column for Outrage, Patrick King Pascual takes soon-to-depart President Noynoy Aquino to task for having neglected to take action on behalf of LGBT people. Uganda: Pride, but no parade; the difficult plight of asylum-seekers Uganda’s week-long LGBT pride celebration kicked off on Wednesday amid safety concerns. The Guardian’s Maeve Shearlaw reported on Wednesday: Uganda’s annual Pride festival begins in Kampala today, with…

Bans on Gender Affirming Care for Youth Reveal Purity Culture Is More Than Just an Evangelical Problem

By M. Cooper Minister

…d point fingers at evangelical groups who train politicians to propose anti-trans legislation, but even mainline Protestant denominations cannot agree on pro-LGBT positions. About a quarter of congregations that had been part of the United Methodist Church disaffiliated over the past couple of years, a move that will presumably allow the adoption of more pro-LGBT policies at the much smaller General Conference of the United Methodist Church later…