Same Sex Attraction

Science has been enlisted to de-pathologize homosexuality in so far as it can lend credence to the assertion that homosexuality is an immutable condition. The immutability issue is as irrelevant to the moral nature of homosexual behavior as it is…

At first I thought Father Gary Meier’s recent article at HuffPo, where he comes out as a gay Catholic priest, was just the usual narcissistic twaddle: damaging and scandalous, certainly, but forgivable enough for someone who’s been taught to think…

During the oral arguments about Proposition 8, Justice Anthony Kennedy referred to children being raised by same-sex couples. Since I was one of those children—from ages 2-19, I was raised by a lesbian mother with the help of her partner—I…

In 1997 Rosaria M. Champagne was a lesbian feminist English professor at Syracuse University in New York, specialising in gay and lesbian studies, living with her girlfriend and sporting a butch haircut. Today, Rosaria Champagne Butterfield is a home-schooling mother…

The Road to Same Sex Marriage

by Robert R. Reilly April 17, 2013

Ineluctably, the issue of “gay” rights is about far more than sexual practices. It is, as lesbian advocate Paula Ettelbrick proclaimed, about “transforming the very fabric of society … [and] radically reordering society’s views of reality”.
Since how we perceive…

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Is Christianity Homophobic?

by Pat Buchanan April 16, 2013

That “loving Jesus means hating gay people” is “proclaimed in Christian churches and on Christian television and radio broadcasts.”
So declares Dan Savage in his review of Jeff Chu’s “Does Jesus Really Love Me: A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search…

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Pope Benedict on Gay Marriage

by Dr. Paul Kengor January 10, 2013

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“The Catholic Church,” wrote G. K. Chesterton, “is the one thing that saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
That is so true. Whatever the latest fad or fashion,…

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The Boy Scouts Stand and Deliver

by Robert R. Reilly July 25, 2012

The Boy Scouts are as American as apple pie, and they have decided to keep it that way. This has earned them the censure of the Washington Post’s editorial page last week. The Scouts decided to reaffirm the policy to…

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The Truth About Same Sex Attraction

by Steve Gershom February 15, 2012

I’m so used to being gay and Catholic, I forget how strange that sounds.
I forget that, for some people, “homosexual” describes something like a different race, or maybe even a different gender. I forget that some Christians think I’m…

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