LGBTQ history: Catholic opposition to the Briggs Initiative
The defense of gay teachers is an important part of American Catholic history.
Catholicism, (homo)eros, and everthing else
The defense of gay teachers is an important part of American Catholic history.
“Lately I’ve been imagining a life of showing up for others, celebrating them, when they reach certain milestones. And then those people never showing up to celebrate mine.”
“If you are going to a church that is not actively putting in the work to understand and affirm Queerness, you are not an ally.”
An excess or deficiency in one arena can bring about vice in another. And a focus on sexual desire-as-excess can hide this fact.
Telling seminaries to protect boys from abusers by banning gay persons will function so as to blind communities to those most likely to abuse.
Many Catholics are committed to a sort of bourgeois church life, where conflicts which could upend communities and challenge the status quo are avoided and, thus, the problems are perpetuated.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the impact of where I live, and how it would form the imaginations of children when it comes to race.
They’ve severely underestimated the extent to which moral failures can be attributed to failures of imagination.
Homosexuals are “lesser men“ because we are unable to truly appreciate “otherness,” which is found most fully in sexual difference.
We’ll learn about and discuss religious freedom and LGBTQ discrimination in Catholic Social Teaching, USCCB legal briefings, and American law.