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The Department of Education is opening an investigation into #Owasso Public Schools where student #Nex #Benedict, a member of the #2SLGBTQ community, got in a fight with several other students the day before they #died, according to a letter from the agency obtained by ABC News.
The investigation follows a complaint from the Human Rights Campaign alleging that the District discriminated against students by failing to respond appropriately to sex-based #harassment at Owasso High School during the 2023-2024 school year.
ABC News · Department of Education to investigate Nex Benedict's school district for discrimination
From reproductive rights to marriage equality to trans lives, the fallout from the decision overruling Roe v. Wade is extreme, dangerous
— and expanding
The five justices of the U.S. Supreme Court who overturned Roe v. Wade 20 months ago Saturday gave a green light to a new brand of Republican extremism in hyperdrive
— a hyperdrive that has been on full, frightening display this week.
Many of the most extreme legal developments since late 2020 have been advanced by far-right Christian legal advocates or authoritarian Trump backers.
In turn, the Supreme Court’s June 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and other rulings since then have empowered those advocates to go further.
Three of the biggest stories in the news this week are, more or less directly, the result of Justice Sam Alito’s Dobbs opinion for the court
— joined as it was by Justice Clarence #Thomas and Donald Trump’s three appointees, Justices Neil #Gorsuch, Brett #Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney #Barrett.
Mix in Gorsuch’s 2023 opinion for those five justices and Chief Justice John #Roberts in the wedding website (that wasn’t) case that created a First Amendment exemption to public accommodations nondiscrimination laws, and we arrive at 2024.
The Alabama Supreme Court’s attack on in vitro fertilization ( @IVF ), a pair of attacks on @marriage #equality, and the attack on #Nex #Benedict in Oklahoma and their death the next day all emerge from the ideology of, devices employed by, and cases decided by this Supreme Court majority.
We ignore their connections and danger at the peril of all who do not want this to become our national reality
Law Dork · This week, we faced all that the Dobbs justices unleashed
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Their behavior is parallel to the behavior of a bunch of Catholic academics and journalists, almost all white men, whom I see saying in the wake of Pope Benedict's death that, well, maybe canonizing him now might be unwise — but I did, after all, have my students reading him for years and I cited him as a cherished authority figure in my commentary.
All the while claiming I stand with the same LGBTQ human beings he was characterizing as intrinsically disordered….
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"In 2010, this became a global headline when documents and evidence concerning Father Murphy, Archbishop Weakland, and Cardinal Ratzinger were delivered to the New York Times.
The case of Father Murphy was not the only direct impact Benedict had on the Milwaukee Archdiocese."
#Benedict XVI #SexualAbuse #Milwaukee
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"In a 1998 letter, Weakland wrote that he worked with Pope Benedict, then Cardinal Ratzinger in Rome, to 'protect Murphy’s good name' by concealing his criminal activity from the public. As head of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith at the time, Ratzinger ruled that Murphy would remain a priest. Weakland explained, 'so far we have succeeded in preserving his reputation.'”
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Nate's Mission discusses cases in which Pope Benedict was directly involved in covering up sexual abuse of minors in the archdiocese of Milwaukee. They write,
"The most notorious of these cases is undoubtedly that of Father Lawrence Murphy, who admitted to former Archbishop Weakland that he raped and sexually assaulted over 200 deaf children while operating St. John’s School for the Deaf."
#Benedict XVI #SexualAbuse #Milwaukee
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Wexler quotes Marianne Duddy-Burke of DignityUSA, who states that Benedict
"forced our [LGBTQ] community out of Catholic churches, tore families apart, silenced our supporters, and even cost lives. He refused to recognize even the most basic human rights for LGBTQIA+ people. Many of us experienced the most harsh and blatant religiously justified discrimination of our lives as a result of his policies."
#Benedict XVI #misogyny #homophobia
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"His church not only didn't give more power to women; it actively tried to suppress them.
In 2012, his Vatican chastised U.S. nuns for being influenced by 'radical feminism,' and for purportedly straying from U.S. bishops' positions on homosexuality and women's ordination. The Leadership Conference of Women Religious was placed under the supervision of three conservative American bishops for its 'serious doctrinal problems.'"
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She writes,
"Nicknamed 'God's Rottweiler' for his zeal in 24 years at the head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, whose roots date back to the Inquisition, he not only opposed the ordination of women to the priesthood but claimed the ban could never be lifted.
As pope, he fired an Australian bishop for merely suggesting that ordaining women might to be a good way to address the shortage of male priests."
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Celia Viggo Wexler urges her fellow Catholics who might now promote the cult of Pope Benedict (i.e., push for his canonization) to consider first all the harm he did to the church and its people. She notes that while he continued the cover-up of sexual abuse that he could have addressed directly, he had no problem acting to use church teaching to knock women down and attack LGBTQ people.
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Salon.comRIP Pope Benedict XVI — but let's not ignore all the harm he did the church and its people
Pope Francis pays tribute to Benedict by calling him "so noble, so kind."
What does it communicate to all the human beings whose humanity Benedict defined as intrinsically disordered to call him kind?
Is it an act of kindness to designate a whole set of human beings as "disordered" and to inscribe that term in official Catholic teaching?
How about asking LGBTQ Catholics whether we found Benedict "kind"?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/31/benedict-xvi-pope-tributes
The Guardian‘So noble, so kind’: Pope Francis leads tributes to Benedict XVI
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"[H]e failed to listen to the lived experiences of real people.
While clearly a man of faith seeking to act with good intentions, his resistance to engaging the lives, love, and faith of actual human beings means he will be remembered as a church leader who did not listen pastorally to those the Church serves."
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"He also oversaw the production of the 1994 Catechism of the Catholic Church, which described sexual activity between two people of the same gender as 'acts of grave depravity.'
These documents caused—and still cause—grave pastoral harm to many LGBTQ+ people and to Catholics who see the goodness, holiness, and God-given love in the relationships of queer couples."
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Francis DeBernardo writes,
"Before becoming pope in 2005, Benedict, known then as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, had an outsized influence on the Church’s approach to gay and lesbian people and issues. As the principal author of the 1986 'Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons,' he introduced the term 'objective disorder' into the Church’s vocabulary to describe a homosexual orientation."
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https://www.newwaysministry.org/2022/12/31/new-ways-ministry-marks-the-passing-of-benedict-xvi/
New Ways MinistryNew Ways Ministry Marks the Passing of Benedict XVI - New Ways MinistryNew Ways Ministry offers prayers for the repose of the soul of the Benedict XVI, the Pope Emeritus, who passed away on December 31, 2022.
Andrew RomanBBC NewsFormer Pope Benedict XVI dies at 95Benedict, who has died at his Vatican residence, became the first pope to resign for 600 years in 2013.