How Can LGBTQ Catholics Proceed After Fulton?; And Other News
Today’s post includes news items on how Catholics can respond to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Fulton decision, a new op-ed on the U.S. bishops’ anti-LGBTQ efforts, and more.
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Today’s post includes news items on how Catholics can respond to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Fulton decision, a new op-ed on the U.S. bishops’ anti-LGBTQ efforts, and more.
Religious freedom must mean more for Catholics than requiring society to tolerate nonsensical and indefensible beliefs simply because they are religiously held.
What does the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on non-discrimination claims when it comes to social service agencies this mean for LGBTQ+ Catholics and those who love them?
Sr. Jeannine Gramick, the co-founder of New Ways Ministry, recently praised Bethany Christian Services’ decision to work with LGBTQ adoptive and foster parents. She wrote more broadly about the need to end discrimination by social service agencies under the guise of religion.
One major figure in the tortuous saga of the Roman Catholic Church’s relationship with the LGBTQ+ community was noticeably absent from the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday: Pope Francis.
Regardless of the U.S. election’s outcome, LGBTQ equal rights will remain under attack because “the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary now pose a serious threat to our most basic freedoms,” wrote Jamie Manson, the new president of Catholics for Choice.
The following is a statement from Francis DeBernardo, New Ways Ministry’s Executive Director, about the U.S. Supreme Court hearing oral arguments in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia.
Women religious in the U.S. have expressed their solidarity and grief in the wake of last month’s mass shooting at a Colorado LGBTQ+ nightclub, even as the nation’s bishops have continued to be largely silent.
In an unprecedented move, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has granted an exception for an unmarried lesbian applicant to serve as a foster parent through a program administered by a Catholic organization.
Bethany Christian Service’s new commitment to LGBTQ non-discrimination is an example that Catholic agencies should follow.