The conflict within Catholic Charities over placing orphans with gay parents is building, with Gov. Romney now stepping back into the fray (thank you, Dan Wasserman and the Globe, for this cartoon).
I entirely understand taking a position upon principle and sticking with it, even if it's unpopular. But I have to ask: I may be biased as a gay man, but I can't help but think that the amount energy the archdiocese is pouring into gay and lesbian issues right now must look obsessive to the majority of Catholics in the pews who are most worried about their churches' and schools' being closed, their priests' demoralization, and the fact that the Catholic church seems more fragile here in Boston than it ever has. Maybe I'm being naïve or simplistic, but can we just keep quiet about the gays for a bit, whether or not we think that's an important issue, for the sake of the church of Boston's health?
3.02.2006
Can we just sit on our anti-gay hands for five minutes?
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I'm sure you saw today's NYTimes editorial about the church's opposition to an anti-immigration bill:
"If current efforts in Congress make it a felony to shield or offer support to illegal immigrants, Cardinal Mahony (of Los Angeles) said, he will instruct his priests — and faithful lay Catholics — to defy the law."
Right on, Mahoney, right on. I have to say it's significant that a cardinal, no less, is calling us to be radical Catholics.
I just found your blog and I'm wondering if you have any posts explaining your anti-choice stance. I find it fairly amazing that a gay Catholic religious leader who ostensibly knows something about moral complexity defends an essentially misogynist Catholic party line. Must be easy, of course, since you'll never ever be in the position of having, or dealing with, an unwanted or problem pregnancy.
I wouldn't usually stop cold and ask such a thing but it really amazes me that you find it possible to live out your truth as a gay person, which is obviously not acceptable within official Catholic doctrine, yet you find it impossible to extend that sense of agency to women.
Thanks for your comment, check out today's (3/4/6) post in response.
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