I have been working towards an extended post on the US and Scottish bishops’ interventions on the moves towards civil marriage equality, but have been struggling to get several different strands of thought together into a coherent single post. However,…
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Huffpost’s “15 Inspiring LGBT Religious Leaders”. Who’s Not on the List?
Huffington Post recently published a slide show of 15 “inspiring LGBT religious leaders”. They are : Irshad Manji, Muslim and founder and director of the Moral Courage Project at New York University’s School of Public Service. Bishop Gene Robinson, Bishop…
Catholic Sexual Abuse, UK: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
In the UK, Catholic bishops for years have been congratulating themselves on their strong policies to deal with problems of sexual abuse by clergy, policies which they believed were shielding the country from the worst excesses that have plagued the…
Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam
Erasmus, born on the 27th October 1466, was a Dutch humanist and theologian, who merits serious consideration by queer people of faith. Born Gerrit Gerritszoon, he became far better known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam: Erasmus was his saint’s name, after…
Catholic Petition on DOMA, Gay Marriage.
A reader, Tom Luce, has drawn my attention to a petition in response to Archbishop Timothy Dolan’s plea to President Obama to “push the reset button on your Administration‟s approach to DOMA.” We know that the majority of Catholics in…
Gay / Lesbian Church Weddings for Denmark, 2012.
Denmark was the first country in the world to provide near-marriage for same-sex couples, in a system of registered partnerships that were widely described as “gay marriage”. The only surprise in the announcement that like their Scandinavian neighbours Sweden Norway…
25 Years of LGBT Ministry in LA Diocese
Twenty five years ago this month, Cardinal Mahoney of the Diocese 0f Los Angeles initiated a formal ministry in outreach to the city’s lesbian and gay Catholics. In the LA Times, Mitchell Landsberg has written of this anniversary, and its intervening years,…
Methodists to Offer Marriage Celebrations to Same-Sex Families :: EDGE New England
Nearly a thousand United Methodists are ready to defy their denomination and offer marriage ceremonies to same-sex couples in the name of love and family parity. The membership of a Methodist group called the We Do! Methodists Living Marriage Equality…
At this Nashville church, once-shunned gays fuel growth
There is a fascinating trend I believe is developing in the LGBT Christian community. Not only are the churches coming to reconsider their traditional hostility to same-sex relationships, much as they once rethought and rejected what they once claimed was…
Church of England women bishop plan passes key threshold
The proposal to approve women bishops for the Church of England has just passed a key threshold: of the 44 diocesan synods, 28 have already approved the proposal – comfortably more than the half of the total (i.e. 22) that…
