The American Conservative: This is the world we live in: Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx has cancelled, perhaps temporarily, a presentation by a priest from the Catholic ministry Courage, which encourages gay Catholics to live chaste lives, in accordance with Catholic teaching — this, after protests from students, faculty, and some alumni, including a drag queen. The New York Daily News story, to which I’ve linked, repeats a damaging calumny against Courage: that the ministry believes homosexual Catholics should try to “pray away the gay.” That is not true, and has never been true about Courage. It’s about offering support for gay Catholics who want to live by Church teaching. I know this because I’ve had a couple of friends who were involved with it, including David Morrison, who wrote a book about his experiences. More on this here.
