In our current political climate, workshops on diversity training and gay issues in the workplace are a relic of the past. Still, the later chapters of A Prince of a Boy are rewarding for the story they tell of the author’s spiritual evolution. Eventually, McNaught “walked backward out of the Church of Rome” and ceased to waste his time on religious conservatives. He considers himself a friend of Buddha and can imagine Jesus as a homosexual.
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In the 3rd century, Saint Eugene, also known as Eugenia of Rome, lived as a man in a monastery—traces of his cult and the sepulture of one of his eunuch companions have been discovered in the catacombs of Rome—before having to reveal his birth gender by exposing his breasts to prove his innocence in a rape accusation. Eugene was martyred in 257 with two eunuchs.
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War Heroes Another episode in the annals of people rising up in defense of minority rights: the residents of a town in Oregon banded together to put up a…More
Martel’s book made the cover of Le Point (Feb. 14, 2019), France’s answer to Time magazine.
MoreThe religious Right has tacitly acknowledged the problem it has with the shrinking number of believers in the U.S. That’s why its leading evangelists are looking overseas for more fertile venues to peddle their hate.
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In I Can’t Date Jesus:, Michael Arceneaux writes about his childhood sexual experiences, his early religious indoctrination, his love for female recording artists (particularly Beyoncé), his struggle to make a living as a writer, coming out, and dating.
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Donald L. Boisvert had submitted a review that was quite critical of Martin’s book [Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity], while Brian Bromberger proposed a defense of it, having interviewed the author in early summer. So it seemed logical to share Boisvert’s critique with Bromberger so as to allow the latter to comment.
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