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William D. Lindsey
National Catholic Reporter Suspends Comments After Weekend of “Vile and Demeaning” Discourse in Some Threads
A brief footnote to my posting last Friday about the “food for worms” response to a eulogy of Father Bob Nugent of New Ways Ministry:
Significant conversation continued all weekend here, in the thread that developed following the posting to which I link above (see the first link). By Saturday evening and then throughout Sunday, folks logging in here were reporting that the conversation in the NCR thread had degenerated into sewer discourse. I revisited the thread last evening, and was frankly shocked at what I saw–the filth of some of the remarks, the hatefulness, the pathological ideas being freely spread about regarding gay folks.
As I noted in my response last evening to several readers who made comments here, though American Catholicism has made important strides in recent years (well, among the laity as distinguished from the hierarchy) in beginning to understand and support those who are gay, there continues to be an underbelly within our church (and let’s be honest: it’s in other national Catholic churches, as well) when gay people, their humanity, and their rights are under discussion.
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