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  • Click here to see the video

    WPIX (Channel 11) in New York reported about the Catholic Church's response to the latest vote on Marriage Equality in the state of New York.   Along with Archbishop Thomas Dolan is an short comment by Lewis Tanner, officer of DignityUSA.

  • From Bay Area Reporter: Gay Catholics discuss marriage equality

    Reaching out to people of faith is seen as one of the most important aspects of repealing Proposition 8, and that was one of the topics addressed as Dignity USA, a group for LGBT Catholics, held its biennial convention in San Francisco last weekend.

  • From the Washington Blade: Catholic groups boost campaign against Maine marriage

    Marianne Duddy-Burke, executive director of Dignity USA, an LGBT Catholic organization, said it's important to note the distinction between Catholic leaders and parishioners.

    "The funding that's from the official church — that is being spent by the bishops who are not accountable to parishioners, many of whom are absolutely furious and appalled at the fact that their bishops are spending the money that these folks donate to help support their parishes [and] folks really who are underprivileged and who should be at the core of our concerns," she said. "To have that money be directed to campaigns to legitimize state-sponsored discrimination is something that most Catholics, when they're made aware of it, find infuriating."

  • Read more at The Religious Consultation

    By Professor Daniel C. Maguire
    a Catholic Theologian teaching at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    The Catholic Church is beginning to rediscover what it once knew; that not all persons are heterosexual, that many people are homosexual and that this is just fine. In the past, the Church accepted homosexuality more openly and even had liturgies to celebrate same sex unions.1 There was a recognition that different sexual orientations are clearly part of God's plan for creation-some people are heterosexual and some are homosexual-this is the way God made us and we have no right to criticize God.

  • Read the article at the New York Times

    Last month, the Public Religion Research Institute, a nonprofit group, reported that 74 percent of American Catholics surveyed supported the rights of same-sex couples to marry or form civil unions (43 percent and 31 percent, respectively)...

    Some seek nontraditional ministry. Dignity New York, a chapter of Dignity USA, an independent gay ministry group, has liturgical services especially for gay Catholics, given mostly by nonactive priests, at St. John’s in the Village, an Episcopal church.