Trans Rabbis
Fascinating: Questions of transgender inclusion become even more complex when Jewish law comes into play. In 2003, the Conservative movement deemed sexual reassignment surgery an essential component of...
View ArticleCatholic Throwdown
I have all kinds of new respect for Jack White after this. Mary’s mother’s name was Anne, by the way. & This is a scapular – which they pronounce kind of more like scapula, which is actually the...
View ArticleUm, Wow. Pat Robertson Says Love Your Transgender Child.
PlanetTransgender has transcribed some of his comments: “I don’t think if somebody is a true transgender, we should condemn them. I mean, that’s just the way it is.” and “The guy’s 30 years old. I...
View ArticleTrans Catholic
Here’s an absolutely breath-taking and tear-jerking story about a remarkable nun who works with the trans community in and around New Orleans. She is what my Catholic has always been about, to be...
View ArticleIN Just Made Bigotry Legal
from Lambda Legal, via Jillian Weiss: Today, the Indiana House of Representatives, with a vote of 63-31, passed a bill designed to allow private businesses, individuals and organizations to...
View ArticleRamadan’s American History
Today is the start of Ramadan.One fourth of the world observes this Muslim fast, and I miss being in a culture where I could regularly witness the very happy fast-breaking at sundown; having grown up...
View ArticleRipped & Religious
Here’s a cool story about a female Episcopalian priest who is also a body builder. She’s from Wisconsin, of course. Decades ago my church decided that the ordination of women was a just and morally...
View ArticleCatholics Against Ryan
From Maureen Dowd’s column this past week: Even Catholic bishops, who had to be dragged toward compassion in the pedophilia scandal, were dismayed at how uncompassionate Ryan’s budget was. Mitt Romney...
View ArticleHabemus Papam
It’s really too bad I didn’t put money on it, because I was right,: homophobic from the Global South, as predicted. He sounds like poverty might actually rate, however, which would be a nice change of...
View ArticleBiblically Gendered
“The Israelites took the transgender trope from their surrounding cultures and wove it into their own sacred scripture. The four-Hebrew-letter name of God, which scholars refer to as the...
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