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August 2008

  • Words to ponder

  • Thank you for your love: A ministry grows in Brooklyn—Rosemary Grebin Palms

  • Rite or Right: Civil Discussion In Order—Thomas J. Reese

  • Position Paper on Courage—Casey Lopata

  • GLAAD series suggests way to more effectively discuss issues of LGBT justice with undecided Americans—Jerry Furlong

July 2008

  • Words to ponder

  • When I Came Out to My Mother—Lourdes Rodriguez-Nogues

  • Bishop urges gays to walk into faith storm—Deb Price

  • First GayPride Marching Experience—Kathleen Conneen

  • An Overview of the Same-Sex Marriage Debate—David Masci

May 2008

  • Words to ponder

  • Write the Bishops? Why Bother??—Joe Gentilini

  • Educating Educators—Ann Franczyk

  • Pope waves to gay Catholic group—Lou Chibbaro Jr.

  • Gay Catholics send letters to Pope

March 2008

  • Words to ponder

  • Dear Pope ... —Casey and Mary Ellen Lopata

  • Terrifying Tango:  Religious Right Horrified by the March of the (Gay) Penguins—Rob Boston

  • Let's Talk About Homosexuality—feedback

  • What Straights Can Learn From Gays About Relationships and Parenting—Robert Jay-Green

  • God Spoke Via Mass. Court—Robert A. Bernstein

  • The joy of giving ourselves—Timothy Radcliffe

February 2008

  • Words to ponder

  • Dear Pope ...

  • Ministry development opportunity

  • Love within a family is what counts—Chester Franczyk

  • Let's Talk about Homosexuality—educational series

  • Still dissenting after all these years—The Tablet

  • For thousands of years—Chris Thomas

  • Lost and found in the Catholic Church—CITY newspaper

January 2008

  • Words to ponder

  • Let’s Talk about Homosexuality—educational series

  • What’s this new sin called complicity?—Ann DeGroot

  • Being called out, again—Steve Balog

  • Law within limits—The Tablet

  • Let Me Sow Love—Jackie Frett

  • An activist?—Tom Nelson

  • Excerpt from Parents Voice Project survey report

     

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