A Catholic high school teacher who was fired because he’s in a same-sex marriage sued the Archdiocese of Indianapolis on Wednesday, accusing it of discrimination and interfering with his teaching contract.
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Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The problems with Mike Pompeo’s Commission of Unalienable Rights
If the Secretary of State’s new commission is intended neither to review U.S. human rights policy nor examine today’s debates over abortion and same-sex marriage, what, then, might it be doing?
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘Gentleman Jack’ tells the story of a 19th century pioneer
The British period genre has been quietly retrofitted to accommodate a gay love story more familiar from our own time.
Posted inFaith, News
Indianapolis archbishop defends firing of teacher in gay marriage
Archbishop Charles Thompson said his orders for two Catholic high schools in the city to fire gay teachers was about upholding church teaching on same-sex marriage and not about sexual orientation.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
How the Jesuits plan to appeal Indy archbishop’s decision to revoke Brebeuf’s Catholic status
The Midwest Jesuits plan to appeal a decree by Archbishop Thompson of Indianapolis that Brebeuf Jesuit High School is no longer recognized as a Catholic school after the school’s administrators refused to terminate a teacher in a same-sex marriage as requested by the archdiocese.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘Pose’ revisits controversial AIDS protest inside St. Patrick’s Cathedral
On the Season Two premiere of “Pose,” the FX drama about a group of L.G.B.T. people of color living on the margins of New York City in the 1980s and ’90s, activists are shown protesting inside New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Archdiocese pulls ‘Catholic’ label from Jesuit school for refusing to fire teacher in same-sex marriage
An Indianapolis Jesuit high school is standing by a teacher after the employee’s same-sex marriage became public.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
How L.G.B.T Catholics are celebrating Pride Month
A Mass outside the Stonewall Inn in New York City is one way that L.G.B.T. Catholics are celebrating Pride Month and offering support to those who want to remain in, or rejoin, the church.
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Vatican gender document makes one thing clear: The church needs more dialogue
Critics and supporters of the Vatican’s latest document on gender and sexuality may find little common ground on the issue, but they can agree on this: The church needs to further a dialogue about transgender individuals.
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
What a gay, Catholic man is doing to help the L.G.B.T. community
This week, we interview Pat Gothman, one of the co-founders of the online queer Catholic community, Vine & Fig.