The defense of gay teachers is an important part of American Catholic history.| Chris Damian
"Lately I've been imagining a life of showing up for others, celebrating them, when they reach certain milestones. And then those people never showing up to celebrate mine."| Chris Damian
"If you are going to a church that is not actively putting in the work to understand and affirm Queerness, you are not an ally."| Chris Damian
An excess or deficiency in one arena can bring about vice in another. And a focus on sexual desire-as-excess can hide this fact.| Chris Damian
Telling seminaries to protect boys from abusers by banning gay persons will function so as to blind communities to those most likely to abuse.| Chris Damian
Many Catholics are committed to a sort of bourgeois church life, where conflicts which could upend communities and challenge the status quo are avoided and, thus, the problems are perpetuated.| Chris Damian
I've been thinking a lot about the impact of where I live, and how it would form the imaginations of children when it comes to race.| Chris Damian
They’ve severely underestimated the extent to which moral failures can be attributed to failures of imagination.| Chris Damian
Homosexuals are “lesser men“ because we are unable to truly appreciate "otherness," which is found most fully in sexual difference.| Chris Damian
We’ll learn about and discuss religious freedom and LGBTQ discrimination in Catholic Social Teaching, USCCB legal briefings, and American law.| Chris Damian