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A More Perfect Union

By Rev. Irene Monroe

…friends, the solemnizing of their civil union by the Justice of the Peace: Welcome to all of you who have come to support Gene and Mark in their joining together in civil union… You have stood by them and supported them in these last few years when on this very day and in this very place, five years ago, their life together changed forever, with Gene’s election as Bishop. They are grateful beyond words to you, and welcome you as you witness their…

My House, My Rules: 3 Women Speakers “Rejected” From Women’s Day Event at Vatican (on Full Inclusion of Women in the Church)

By Mary E. Hunt

…three years ago in Philadelphia where LGBTQ Catholics were made to feel as welcome as the flu. Alas, new, recently released materials from which all traces of happy, good, healthy and moral same-sex families were erased have superseded the earlier ones. The WMOF2018 promises to be another contested space. What’s more, Ireland will have a May 2018 referendum on abortion. It’s difficult to predict whether the Irish will overturn Amendment Eight whic…

Russian Attack on LGBTs at UN Rejected; Gay Cake Controversy Rages in N. Ireland; Bishop Calls for Marriage Referendum in Puerto Rico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ek that the group and the Iranian Lesbian and Transgender Network (6Rang) “welcome the decision by the Islamic Republican of Iran to accept 139 of the 291 recommendations and to partially support 59 recommendations put forward by the 28th session of the Human Rights Council that address the rights of sexual minorities.” Despite the limitations, this is the first time the Islamic Republic has acknowledged ill-treatment and torture of the LGBT commu…

Mumbai is Not 9/11

By Laurie Patton

…his openness and the terrorists’ message was loud and clear: Mumbai’s open welcome was now closed. When the first gunmen opened fire in the hotel lobby of the Taj, the crowd moved in the opposite direction, out of the their path. But coming from that opposite direction, another gunman opened fire. There was no place to hide. The targets chosen were not a single hotel, or a single business center, but places all over south Mumbai—anywhere you sough…

Vatican’s Come-Hither to Anglicans: A Theological Scandal

By Mary E. Hunt

…LGBTQ people motivated them to split from the Anglican Communion, are now welcome to switch to Catholicism. Let history record this theological scandal for what it is. Touted by Rome as a step forward in ecumenical relations with a cousin communion, it is in fact the joining of two camps united in their rejection of women and queer people as unworthy of religious leadership. A forthcoming Apostolic Constitution will spell out the details: Anglica…

Papal Retirement: A Matter of Conscience

By Mary E. Hunt

The unexpected announcement of the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI is a welcome breath of fresh air. A human being, even a pope, ought to have the option to say enough is enough, I have done what I can do, and now it is time for someone else to take over. I applaud his move and read it as a sign of hope in a dreary ecclesial scene. Speculation about his health is rampant. As with many elders whose offspring plot to take away the car keys, I susp…

Too Hot for Shul: Rabbis Seek Healthy Israel Dialogue After Gaza

By Sarah Posner

…which result in too few communal spaces in which Jews feel comfortable or welcome voicing criticisms of Israel. Rabbi Brian Walt, the founding executive director of Rabbis for Human Rights-North America, and now part-time rabbi for Congregation Tikkun v’Or, a Reform synagogue in Ithaca, New York, sits on both the JVP Rabbinic Council and the J Street Rabbinic Cabinet. While the emergence of JVP has “widened the discourse of rabbis,” he claims tha…

Out of Options: Christians’ Losing Battle Over Equality

By Kaya Oakes

…same-sex relationships. And this has put churches into a bind. Should they welcome women as leaders and same-sex families and trans individuals, they risk alienating some of their most committed members (and donors). Should they reject those same notions of parity, they risk losing (and in many cases have already lost) the majority of Gen X and Millennials, who have grown up with feminism as a given notion and LGBTQ equality as the civil rights is…

Pope’s ‘Joy of Love’ Brings Little Joy To LGBT Catholics; Gay Atheist Malaysian Granted Refugee Status In Canada; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…BT community, or for a clear statement that LGBT people and supporters are welcome to participate in the Church’s sacramental life and ministries.” At the Washington Post, Anthony Faiola and Michelle Boorstein highlighted the pope’s urging that the clergy not wield “moral laws” like a weapon. More than anything, it amounted to an exaltation of traditional marriage while recognizing that life, in his own words, is not always “perfect.” Yet rather t…

Inauguration Captures US Patchwork

By Hussein Rashid

…fferent. President Clinton hosted dinners for Eid that showed Muslims were welcome. However, the statements at the inauguration were not a welcome, they were not toleration. They were a statement that Muslims-Americans are US. We are them. Collectively what was said is that we don’t need to talk about Muslim-Americans anymore when we talk about America; we just need to talk about Muslims, like we talk about Jews and like we talk about Christians (…