Category: The Lead

Same-sex weddings in the heartland

Everything changed for this Iowa nurse on April 3, when the Midwestern state’s Supreme Court unanimously ruled to overturn a ban on same-sex marriages. On that day, Pollard proposed to Gayla Snook, her partner of 10 years — three times, just because she could.

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Obama’s Christian realism

Realism without hope is deadly. Hope without realism leads to wishful thinking. But put the two together and you have the elements of Christian realism

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Bad girls in church

We picketed bishops and Popes, stole their dresses, stood up at the consecration of the Eucharist and said the words out loud. We are the bad girls of Catholic feminism, and we have stood up, over and over again, for women’s freedom.

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