Commonweal Magazine: More than Welcome
LGBTQ+ Catholics can transform the Church—if the Synod would listen.
June 19, 2024
Last February, a sixteen-year-old nonbinary student named Nex Benedict died after an altercation with three other students in a women’s bathroom at Owasso High School in Oklahoma. The tragedy generated national attention as well as an outcry from LGBTQ+ rights groups. Benedict, whose death was later ruled a suicide, had been bullied for more than a year before the incident. Many blamed their death (Benedict used they/them pronouns) in part on a recently passed Oklahoma policy requiring students to use the bathroom corresponding to the sex listed on their birth certificate.
Link to full article:
https://www.newwaysministry.org/2024/06/23/being-surprised-out-of-our-fears/