Category: Inclusion

Last week, with a vote of 230 to 191, the House of Representatives passed the repeal of former President Bill Clinton’s 1993 “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT)” policy that bars lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) service members from the military. On the same day the House passed to repeal DADT, so too did…

Adam Wheeler defrauded Harvard out of thousands of dollars: $31,000 in financial aid, $8,000 in a research grant, and $6,000 in English prizes. Many applaud his feat while others are appalled by his nerve. Had his hubris not gotten the best of him – vying for the prestigious Fulbright and Rhodes scholarships – Wheeler would…

Lena Horne died this Mother’s Day at the age of 92. If you are of my generation of Lena Horne fans your first encounters with the star was her role as Glinda, the Good Witch of the South in “The Wiz,” the 1978 film of the all-black version of L. Frank Baum’s children’s classic “The…

Share or Print this Page of BC | I am thinking about you this Mother’s Day, but what shall I call you? Mommy! Mommy? I never called anyone Mommy although I remember one day during my first spring semester at Union Theological Seminary in 1988 when I was rolled into St. Luke’s Hospital Emergency Room…

For decades the Reserve Officers” Training Corps( ROTC) was an unwelcome sight on Ivy League college campuses, like Harvard University, because of its ban on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) servicemembers. But in February of this year, when the nation’s top two Defense officials, Defense Secretary, Robert Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman…

Share or Print this Page of BC | The Catholic Church is in damage control. Pope Benedict XVI won’t resign and he can’t be defrocked. And Catholics worldwide are enraged. The Church now needs a quick out, an easy solution and a fall guy to tamp down our rage and to explain away its decades-long…

Who among us would not flinch at the thought of a “holy man” preying on children instead of praying with them? And what faith can anyone have in a Church that says it stands on the teachings of Jesus yet violates his biblical mandate stated in Mark 10:14: “Let the children come to me; do…

Eight million more women than men voted for Obama for president. And one of the reasons we did was because of his purported position on reproductive justice issues like abortion and emergency contraception (EC). For example, in 2008 he pledged to Planned Parenthood: “I will not yield” to pro-life concerns. But with the stroke of…

Sometime in the late hours of Saturday night the call will come in. Philbert (not his real name) like many of his Christian lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) buddies wait anxiously for the call in order to know the time and place of the van pickup, and where it’ll drop them off to…