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

Los Angeles Cathedral

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

NCR on TikTok

Fr. Daniel on InstaGram

SEGMENT 1 - 2022 Midterms

Latest election results

“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

Georgia runoff

Steve Millies and the Bernardin Center

Data about young voters

SEGMENT 2 - Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies in Catholic Dioceses

17-page policy document from the Denver Diocese

Denver Post Article

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

Matthew 25:31 - 46, NAB

SEGMENT 3 - Recent SCOTUS Cases

Overview of the Affirmative Action cases

Overview of the ICWA case

SCOTUSblog report on ICWA

Sandburg Media