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Denver Newsroom, Mar 2, 2021 / 05:19 pm (CNA).- A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences the nationwide body that votes for the Academy Awards recently declined to watch a film that critiques abortion regulations, drawing public ire from a pro-choice filmmaker who created it.
The film, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” follows a 17-year-old girl as she travels from Pennsylvania to New York to obtain an abortion. The fictional film was inspired by news stories of women traveling from areas with more restrictive abortion laws to areas with more permissive laws, the director has said.
In this 2015 file photo, LGBTQ supporters wave a flag outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. (CNS/Tyler Orsburn)
Less than one month after the bishop of Lexington, Kentucky, joined with Catholics across the country in signing a statement to LGBTQ youth that declared God created you, God loves you and God is on your side, nearly half of the priests in his diocese have signed their own statement affirming their support of LGBTQ individuals.
In a statement released on Feb. 17 Ash Wednesday 21 priests of the Diocese of Lexington said that people of faith have a particular duty to help, support, and defend LGBT youth who are at heightened risk of suicide, homelessness, bullying and rejection.
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A group of U.S. Catholic bishops, including a cardinal and an archbishop, have signed a statement of support for L.G.B.T. youth, telling them, “God created you, God loves you and God is on your side.”
“As we see in the Gospels, Jesus Christ taught love, mercy and welcome for all people, especially for those who felt persecuted or marginalized in any way; and the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that LGBT people are to be treated with ‘respect, compassion and sensitivity,’” reads the statement, released by the Tyler Clementi Foundation, an organization that fights L.G.B.T. bullying in schools, workplaces and faith communities.
A group of Catholic bishops issues statement condemning bullying of LGBTQ youth
The signers also directed part of their comments directly to LGBTQ people, saying, ‘know that God created you, God loves you and God is on your side.’ Photo by Mercedes Mehling/Unsplash/Creative Commons
January 25, 2021
(RNS) A group of U.S. Catholic bishops has released a statement condemning the bullying of LGBTQ youth, insisting “all people of goodwill should help, support, and defend” them.
“As we see in the Gospels, Jesus Christ taught love, mercy and welcome for all people, especially for those who felt persecuted or marginalized in any way,” read the statement, which was released Monday (Jan. 25) in cooperation with the Tyler Clementi Foundation, a group that works to combat the bullying of LGBTQ people.