Equality Act Archives - New Ways Ministry

U.S. Bishops’ Religious Freedom Week Helps Perpetuate Another “Big Lie”

June 10, 2021/4 Comments/in Employment Issues, Gender Identity, Healthcare, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Politics & Human Rights, Religious Liberty, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Later this month is the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) Religious Freedom Week, an eight-day period when Catholics are supposed to pray and act on alleged threats to religious liberty. While some concerns are valid, the bishops' conference is again spreading disinformation in its attempt to suppress LGBTQ rights. Read More

U.S. Bishops Opposed Law to Fund Suicide Hotline Over Provisions for LGBTQ Support

March 26, 2021/4 Comments/in Employment Issues, Gender Identity, Healthcare, Hierarchy, Politics & Human Rights, Religious Liberty, Schools & Youth /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

The National Catholic Reporter broke news this week that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) lobbied last year against legislation to fund a national suicide hotline because it would also fund LGBTQ-specific care, which is only the latest use of their political weight to stop pro-LGBTQ initiatives. Read More

Bishop John Stowe Endorses Equality Act, Breaking with U.S. Bishops’ Conference

March 25, 2021/4 Comments/in Employment Issues, Gender Identity, Healthcare, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Politics & Human Rights, Religious Liberty, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Bishop John Stowe of Lexington has broken with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) by supporting the Equality Act, saying "How can we take a position against equality?" Read More

Catholics Voice Support for Equality Act, Denounce U.S. Bishops’ Extreme Rhetoric

March 3, 2021/0 Comments/in Employment Issues, Gender Identity, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Religious Liberty /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Catholics are voicing their support for the Equality Act after it passed the U.S. House of Representatives recently. But Catholics are also criticizing the U.S. bishops for harsh rhetoric about the Act, including denials that LGBTQ people face systemic discrimination. Read More

U.S. Bishops Suggest Equality Act Would Harm Religious People and Mandate Abortions

February 25, 2021/6 Comments/in Employment Issues, Gender Identity, Hierarchy, Politics & Human Rights, Religious Liberty, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Leaders of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) issued a letter against the Equality Act, suggesting the legislation could "inflict numerous legal and social harms" on religious people and "be construed to include an abortion mandate." Read More

Catholics and Joe Biden Can Find Common Ground for Equality, Writes Lay Minister

January 30, 2021/0 Comments/in Employment Issues, Gender Identity, Healthcare, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Religious Liberty /by Mac Svolos

Catholic social teaching can provide common ground for President Joe Biden and U.S. Catholics to work together on LGBTQ issues, Yunuen Trujillo suggested in a recent op-ed for the National Catholic Reporter. Read More

U.S. Bishops Signal Potential “Showdown” with Biden Over Equality Act, Other Issues

November 19, 2020/10 Comments/in Hierarchy, Politics & Human Rights, Religious Liberty /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Meeting virtually this week, the U.S. bishops reaffirmed that the nation's episcopal conference remains deeply conservative. In concluding remarks, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) head took aim at President-elect Joe Biden in what one journalist has suggested might become a "showdown" between church leaders and the new administration, in part because of LGBTQ equality. Read More

U.S. Bishops Voice Objections to Republican-Led ‘Fairness for All Act’

January 27, 2020/2 Comments/in Gender Identity, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Politics & Human Rights, Religious Liberty, Uncategorized /by Kevin Molloy

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops recently wrote to Congress to express concerns over the Fairness for All Act which aims to simultaneously protect LGBTQ people from discrimination and religious institutions’ freedom from government interference. Read More

U.S. Bishops “Gravely Disappointed” with Equality Act, Support Trump’s Anti-Transgender Guideline

May 30, 2019/8 Comments/in Gender Identity, Hierarchy, Politics & Human Rights, Religious Liberty, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

The U.S. bishops have continued to cheerlead the Trump administration's war on LGBTQ people, this time decrying the Equality Act's recent passage in Congress and endorsing a new federal anti-transgender guideline. Catholics are again left wondering just how far Church leaders will go in their crusade allegedly to defend religious liberty in which they show little concern for LGBTQ lives. Read More

Defying Bishops’ Alarms, Catholics Express Support for Equality Act Which Passed a Legislative Hurdle

May 18, 2019/1 Comment/in Hierarchy, Politics & Human Rights, Religious Liberty, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Catholics have been expressing their support for the Equality Act, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this week, defying episcopal opposition with a pro-LGBTQ faith witness. Read More

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