On May 26, Los Angeles Dodgers announced a “relaunch” of another themed day at Dodger Stadium, “Christian Faith and Family Day.”
Varian Fry was an American journalist who played a critical role in rescuing Jews and other refugees from Nazi-occupied France during World War II. Although his sexual orientation was never explicitly confirmed, there is evidence to suggest that Fry may have been gay – a fact that could have had dire consequences for him at the time.
Orlandi Emanuela’s brother, Pietro Orlandi, appeared on an Italian television program after meeting with Vatican prosecutors. Emanuela Orlandi was the teenage daughter of a Vatican employee who lived at the Vatican. The disappearance of the 15-year-old in 1983 is an enduring mystery that has spawned countless theories and so far fruitless investigations in the decades since.
According to the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, “the rights of the teacher, John Kluge, to exercise his religious beliefs were outweighed by the potential disruption that his conduct could have on the learning environment at Brownsburg High School in the Indianapolis suburbs.”
A federal judge has ordered Palm Beach County and the city of Boca Raton to pay $175,000 to two family therapists who challenged a local ban on gay conversion therapy for minors struggling with their sexuality, gender identity, and faith. Robert Otto and Julie Hamilton ran afoul of Boca Raton’s ban on conversion therapy, which considered the practice harmful to the health and emotional development of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and other youth.
Rev Dr. Durrell Watkins, Senior Minister of Sunshine Cathedral, the World’s Largest Progressive Queer Church equated the crucifixion of Jesus to attacks on LGBTQ+ people. He equated the Easter resurrection to justice-love, the concept that actualized can resurrect dehumanized, demonized, or demoralized people to live their lives as their true selves.
The Maryland Attorney General, Anthony Brown, has called it a “day of reckoning” for the Archdiocese of Maryland as a 463-page report documents the “depraved and systemic failure” of the church to protect the children under its care. The report outlines the extent of the power and authority that the clergy used to exploit the trust of children and the lengths they went to in order to cover up their abuses.
TransChristianity community on Reddit discussed What Jesus Would Say About The LGBTQ+ Community? One user u/ds_5555 shared a post asking, “Would Jesus want us to “deny ourselves” of our dysphoria? Matthew 6:24” The post asked what Jesus would say if he were alive in modern times.
A group of over 6,000 Catholic nuns has joined the fight for trans rights, writing in an open letter that trans and non-binary people are “beloved and cherished by God”.
The Sisters of Saint Joseph Federation and several other Catholic organizations published an open letter on Trans Day of Visibility that supports the LGBTQ+ community and criticizes the recent influx of oppressive and discriminatory legislation sweeping the US.
a 20-year-old Ohio man associated with the group White Lives Matters Ohio, in connection with the attempted firebombing of a church hosting a Drag Queen Story Hour event is a sobering reminder of the ongoing threat posed by far-right extremism in the United States.
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