Posts Tagged ‘Gay’

Gay Catholic challenges Dolan to debate marriage

Friday, December 9th, 2011

Catholic gay rights advocate Joe Murray has challenged Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York to a debate on gay marriage.

Murray is the executive director of the Rainbow Sash Movement, which advocates for acceptance of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Catholics within the church.

Through a post issued today on Rainbow Sash’s blog, its board of directors state that Murray has challenged Dolan, president of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ conference, “to meet him in the public square at any Catholic university in the United States to debate gay marriage. Such a debate will not only be informative, but could highlight reason over homophobia.”

The archdiocese is aware of the request, but is unlikely to respond.

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Archbishop warns gay marriage will weaken marriage in Britain

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

British PM David Cameron’s plan to legalise gay marriage will weaken marriage as an institution at the heart of British society, Archbishop Vincent Nichols said. Nichols said at a news conference that Cameron wants to “annex the institution of marriage” for homosexuals. Nichols said he respects Cameron’s desire to encourage equality and committed gay relationships. Read more

Violent protests, a kiss-in, pro-condom lobby and hackers ‘greet’ Pope at WYD

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011

Pilgrims will not be likely to forget the 2011 Madrid World Youth Day in a hurry. Any event that gathers 1.5 – 2 million young people together to celebrate their faith is a huge success, and whether it be the intense heat, untimely rain and wind or the growth in faith, the atmosphere of the Read more

Miami Vice: Story of Florida Archdiocese

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

Archbishop John C Favalora, until last year the Archbishop of the Miami, Florida, stands accused of running his diocese along the lines of a corrupt “homosexual super-culture”. The Gawker report, written by former Miami New Times contributor and theatre critic Brandon K. Thorp, gathers information from an intensive investigation by a group of South Florida Catholics calling Read more

Church has a duty to enforce moral standards in its own community

Friday, July 8th, 2011

Mark John Reynolds, commenting on the Catholic Church’s stand on same sex marriage, contends that the Catholic Church has a duty to enforce moral standards in its own community. “The line between church and state begins the moment a politician such as Andrew Cuomo walks through the parish door. When he stands in the pews, he is Read more

St Matthews stirs the gay debate

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

The latest billboard of an Auckland church known for its controversial campaigns stirs the gay debate. St Matthew’s in the City’s latest billboard depicts a “gay-dar” showing a spectrum from gay to straight with a cross acting as a meter. An explanatory caption on the board states: “As used by the Anglican Church to assess Read more

Are women and men interchangeable at will?

Friday, July 1st, 2011

A number of issues which may appear to be unrelated have been in the news Redefining Marriage, Children being raised in a “gender free” environment, Alasdair Thompson’s comments on workplace productivity, Cardinal sees ‘no theological obstacle’ to women priests. They are however connected by the underlying issue of gender difference. At one end of the Read more

2,000 meet to call for reform in Detroit

Friday, June 24th, 2011

At the American Catholic Council an estimated 2,000 reform-minded Catholics stood en masse to endorse a 10-point Catholic Bill of Rights and Responsibilities that asserts primacy of conscience and the right of every Catholic to have a voice in the way the church is run, as well as an obligation to advance the proclamation of Read more

Donor dad vs. lesbian parents

Friday, May 27th, 2011

When Australian, Neil Richards answered  a lesbian couple’s advertisement in a magazine to use his sperm to conceive, he said they agreed he should be involved in his daughter’s life but exactly how was never decided. Richards, the “donor dad”, provided sperm to Jesse Star, paid $5000 for her fertility treatments, paid for the midwife, Read more

Priests and the Rome gay sex scene

Friday, April 29th, 2011

There’s a flourishing gay scene for priests in Rome, according to a new book due out soon. Sex and the Vatican: a secret journey in the reign of the chaste, will publish testimonies from priests and from undercover reporting. Carmelo Abbate, an investigative journalist, authored the book which will be published in Italian and French. Abbate Read more