The Midterms, Anti-LGBTQ Policies, and Supreme Court Cases Affecting Civil Rights
Heidi, Fr. Daniel, and David do a round-up of the 2022 Midterm elections, explore recent Supreme Court cases and their effects on Affirmative Action and Native tribal law, and discuss recent anti-LGBTQ+ policies in Catholic dioceses
INTRO
Fr. Gregory Boyle and Homeboy Industries
Fr. Boyle’s new book, The Whole Language
Thursday, Nov 17th - Fr. Daniel lecturing in London, Ontario at King’s University College
SCRIPT - the AAR-adjacent organization that David is president of
Find David, Heidi, and Fr. Daniel on Twitter
David is teaching his Media and Ministry course at Loyola IPS in spring 2022
SEGMENT 1 - 2022 Midterms
“It’s Log!” from Ren and Stimpy
Michael Sean Winters’s column at NCR that Heidi woke up to edit
Blue Tsunami or Red Wave framing
Catholic integralists calling for shutting down democracy
Steve Millies and the Bernardin Center
SEGMENT 2 - Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies in Catholic Dioceses
17-page policy document from the Denver Diocese
NCR report by Katie Collins Scott
A guidance document from the Dicastery for Education (not Magisterial teaching)
Fr. Daniel’s column about the Dicastery document from 2019
The “Person and Identity” project and the Catholic Bioethics Center are both organizations that fail to recognize the inherent worth and dignity of Transgender persons
Our discussion of former Archbishop Chaput, from our last episode
Pope Francis meeting with transgender persons in the Vatican
Pope Francis’s remarks to the United Nations