Quote of the Day

Francis DeBernardo of New Ways Ministry reports on the upcoming global Catholic synod, which says it will address LGBTQ issues:

As far as New Ways Ministry can identify, no openly LGBTQ+ person or leader was selected to participate at the Synod assembly.

As has long been the norm in Catholic circles, we who are LGBTQ are left on the outside looking in, having our very lives and humanity dissected in official discussions in which we are not allowed to say a word.

At best, “allies” and “advocates” like Father James Martin are allowed to speak on our behalf – as if we do not have voices, cannot think or speak for ourselves, have nothing of importance to say.

The Catholic church could not do more to prove that it remains a boys’ club giving astonishing unmerited privilege to heterosexual (or heterosexual-posturing) males.

It’s no wonder so many of us who are LGBTQ have shrugged our shoulders and walked away.

Who needs a closed club like that calling itself a church promoting the teachings of Jesus?

– William D. Lindsey
via Facebook
July 8, 2023

Related Off-site Links:
Hope and Disappointment for LGBTQ+ People Spring from List of Synod Participants – Francis DeBernardo (New Ways Ministry, July 7, 2023).
Father James Martin Hopes to Bring LGBTQ Voices to the Synod – Claire Giangravé (Religion News Service via America, July 11, 2022).
Fr. James Martin, SJ, on Synod Invitation: “I Was Both Honored and Surprised” – Jesuits.org (July 11, 2022).

For more of William D. Lindsey at The Wild Reed, see:
• William D. Lindsey: Quote of the Day – April 22, 2016
• Questions “as the Light Shifts and Wanes”
• William D. Lindsey: Quote of the Day – November 12, 2015
• Laudato Si’ and the Question That Needs to Be Asked
• William D. Lindsey: Quote of the Day – June 12, 2015
• LGBT Catholics Respond to Synod 2014’s Final Report
• William D. Lindsey: Quote of the Day – September 15, 2014
• Across the U.S., Anti-Marriage Equality Laws and Amendments are “Toppling Like a Line of Dominoes”
• William D. Lindsey: Quote of the Day – July 7, 2011
• William D. Lindsey: Quote of the Day – May 5, 2011
• William D. Lindsey: Quote of the Day – April 26, 2011
• William D. Lindsey: Quote of the Day – January 24, 2011
• William D. Lindsey: Quote of the Day – November 24, 2010
• William D. Lindsey: Quote of the Day – November 17, 2010
• Reflections on the Life and Legacy of John Henry Newman
• William D. Lindsey: Quote of the Day – August 11, 2010
• The Catholic Challenge

See also:
• Sons of the Church: The Witnessing of Gay Catholic Men: A Discussion Guide
• Beyond the Hierarchy: The Blossoming of Liberating Catholic Insights on Sexuality
• Stop in the Name of Discriminatory Ideology!
• Gay Men in the Vatican Are Giving the Rest of Us a Bad Name
• The Many Manifestations of God’s Loving Embrace
• Dew[y]-Kissed
• Somewhere in Between