tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post8190825589123302485..comments2024-03-23T12:05:23.537-05:00Comments on The Wild Reed: Two Powerful Calls for the Catholic Hierarchy to Fully Acknowledge the LGBT Victims of Anti-LGBT ViolenceMichael J. Baylyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-79037471578638504342016-06-18T13:28:56.297-05:002016-06-18T13:28:56.297-05:00Thanks indeed. Where is Archbishop Hebda? And for ...Thanks indeed. Where is Archbishop Hebda? And for that matter the Holy Father? All that is on the Archdiocese of St Paul website is a less than satisfactory (and second hand) quote from Pope Francis, given through Federico Lombardi. Perhaps more will be said by both--I certainly pray so. All of this distresses me greatly but the silence of those two men of God most of all. I expected more.Richard G Evanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12027824586635825983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-85969971729666293332016-06-16T13:51:26.482-05:002016-06-16T13:51:26.482-05:00The U.S. Catholic journal Commonweal has a blog po...The U.S. Catholic journal <i>Commonweal</i> has a <a href="https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/orlando" rel="nofollow">blog posting</a> about Orlando. It contains not a single reference to the fact that those killed in this act of mass murder were mostly LGBTQ people at a gay bar.<br /><br />Here's how one reader, Jack Marth, responds: <br /><br />"I am dismayed that a blog posting on this site with the headline 'Orlando' not 'Orlando and Guns' (the first posting on this topic, btw) fails to even mention that this act of gun violence was directed at the LGBTQ community. Given the need for our Church to repent of the sin of homophobia and atone for our Church's responsibility for creating a climate of hatred it is hard not to label this posting as oblivious. It is easy for Catholics to be self-righteous about gun issues. Our Church and its leaders are actually generally on target on this issue. When gun violence was directed at people because of their race, our leaders were not at all hesitant to speak of racism. Kudos. But for a few exceptions (Cupich, Lynch and McElroy are the ones I am familiar with), our Church leaders have ignored the fact that LGBTQ people were the targets of the Orlando violence or have used offensive terms like 'personal lifestyle' (Cordileone) to describe our LGBTQ brothers and sisters. Catholics don't need to prove they are pro-life about gun violence right now – we need to prove that we stand in full solidarity with the LGBTQ community."Michael J. Baylyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-5168990113218329662016-06-16T00:16:38.352-05:002016-06-16T00:16:38.352-05:00Thanks for collecting these thoughts and articles ...Thanks for collecting these thoughts and articles Michael.Beth in MNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11158237578450251736noreply@blogger.com