The Digital Dispatch

From NOEBIE.net

LGBTQIA+

Be That One Accepting Person for Somebody

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My youngest child sent me the link to this video, saying “I cried when watching this video, man.” I watched it and replied “Me too.”

There are a lot of things about how we humans experience and express gender and sexuality that I still do not understand. Here is what I do understand.

People have a right to live authentically, in accord with their own sense of the deepest truths of their being.

People have a capacity to choose love, kindness and acceptance for one another. This is something that I believe we ought to do.

Unfaithful to the Gospel

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Each time I think that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops have gotten to the point where there isn’t much they can do that would surprise me or disappoint me, they find a way to do it.

When obsessions with language and semantics around gender and sexuality causes a group to oppose funding for suicide prevention, prevention of violence against women, and protection for all against discrimination, they have departed from any semblance of being “True to the Gospel” or “pro-life.”

I have to remind myself that the Bishops, although meant to be shepherds of the Church, are not the Church itself. So, it is not accurate to say that “the Catholic Church opposes” equality. Nevertheless, it is troubling to remain in communion with a body which seems to be led by bigots.