More than 750 of the nation’s leading Catholic theologians, church leaders, scholars, educators, and writers released a joint statement on Sept.
14 expressing strong support for nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people. The six-page theological statement, “A Home for All: A Catholic Call for LGBTQ Non-Discrimination,” was scheduled to be published along with the names of its 759 signatories as a four-page advertisement on Sept.
17 in the National Catholic Reporter, a newspaper widely read by Catholic clergy and laypeople. The statement was initiated by New Ways Ministry, a Mount Rainier, Md., based Catholic group that advocates for equality for LGBTQ people within the church and society at large. “As Catholic theologians, scholars,