lgbt
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What About the Religious Freedom of Catholic Soldiers?
As many of you have probably heard by now, last week, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops released a document protesting what they see as an unprecedented attack on religious liberty by the Obama administration. I have lots of… Continue reading
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On Speech Acts & Making Things Better
Many members of WIT are institutionally affiliated with Catholic universities—and once you start talking about Catholic universities, you’ll eventually end up in a discussion about Notre Dame. While I speak only for myself in this post (as all of us… Continue reading
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Church Teaching and Violence Against LGBT Persons II
A recent article in Mother Jones offers a snapshot of what it’s like to be lesbian or gay in Uganda–arguably the worst place on earth to be lesbian or gay. Perhaps not coincidentally, Catholics comprise 41% of the Ugandan population… Continue reading
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Homosexuality Is Not Like Alcoholism
Apparently, the most popular way to argue against homosexuality these days is to compare it to alcoholism. Seriously. I have been hearing this a lot lately. A representative version of this argument goes something like this: “just as we wouldn’t… Continue reading
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Is Sexual Complementarity An Argument Against Same-Sex Relationships?
In addition to being used as an argument against artificial birth control and women’s ordination, sexual complementarity is also put forth as an argument against the goodness of same-sex relationships. According to this thinking, the procreative compatibility of male and… Continue reading
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The Woman I Loved for Four Years
And now for something a bit different. We Women of WIT would like to share the following short reflection written by a friend of the blog for a performance of monologues written by LGBT folks. It represents a different manner of… Continue reading
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Retired Brooklyn bishop praises Catholic support for LGBT rights
Our readers may be interested in this editorial on Catholic support for LGBT rights by Bishop Joseph Sullivan, retired auxiliary bishop of Brooklyn. While one might rightly wish that Bishop Sullivan had not depicted the Roman Catholic community and the… Continue reading
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It’s Adam and Eve AND Adam and Steve
Often, the fact that, in Scripture, the first human beings were a man (Adam) and a woman (Eve) and that this man and woman had a sexual relationship is assumed to be clear and irrefutable evidence that homosexuality is wrong.… Continue reading