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Michigan Diocese Releases New Transgender-Negative Policy for Catholic Agencies

February 1, 2021/5 Comments/in Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Healthcare, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Theology & Church Teaching /by Angela Howard-McParland

The Diocese of Lansing, Michigan, has released a new policy on gender identity that requires all of its agencies to acknowledge only a person’s assigned sex at birth. Read More

LGBTQ Catholic Once Denied Communion Now Speaks Out About Leaving Church

August 24, 2020/7 Comments/in Parish Life & Pastoral Care /by Catherine Buck

A Catholic judge who was denied communion because of her marriage to a woman has disclosed that she has left the Catholic Church. Read More

Community Supports Lesbian Judge Denied Communion with Inclusive Liturgy, Letter to Bishop

December 6, 2019/8 Comments/in Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Community members are making their support known for a lesbian Catholic denied Communion over her same-gender marriage, including with an inclusive liturgy and one parishioner's letter to the local bishop. Read More

Judge Rules In Favor of Michigan Catholic Charities That Discriminates Against LGBTQ Clients

October 7, 2019/2 Comments/in Marriage & Family, Politics & Human Rights, Schools & Youth, Uncategorized /by Catherine Buck

Michigan adoption agencies receiving government funding are no longer required to provide equal support to LGBTQ families, a federal judge ruled in a preliminary injunction last week for a case that involves a Catholic social service agency Read More

Michigan Will No Longer Fund Adoption Agencies that Ban LGBTQ Parents

April 12, 2019/2 Comments/in Marriage & Family, Politics & Human Rights /by Jonathan Nisly

The state of Michigan will require all adoption agencies receiving government funding to work with LGBTQ parents, as the result of a settlement between the American Civil Liberties Union and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D). Read More