The langage of “therapeutic choice” now championed in legislation across the country comes from these groups. When NARTH was exposed, they rebranded to the alliance for “therapeutic choice” and “scientific integrity” which should raise some alarms right now.

They implemented their tactics in healthcare systems like these, whose policies allowed providers to go wildly off-script in the name of “conscience.” This blurring of medicine and faith will get so much worse in the next four years, as public dollars are turned over to the church in record numbers.

He can make a statement

If he can't then the whole institution is not worth the time of day

You think you know me from one comment you disagreed with?

You can write about ice's violence and still make a bad argument that flattens political violence

I'm not acting in bad faith

The only time you ever otherwise replied to me was a bad faith reading of my comment

You said McBride was at the greatest risk to political violence when ICE is literally abducting people (which is political violence)

But keep doing you, keep punching down

Where's the context?

He can put out a statement condemning their bigotry

Takes very little time

If the head of the Catholic Church can't condemn hate them he isn't worth an ounce of praise

You gonna add something of substance to the conversation?

Or are you just going to ignore the Catholic Church's bigotry too?

Or is it that you can't see past performative gestures that don't materially help people?

Just like you couldn't see political violence INCLUDES what ICE is doing

Projecting transphobic paedophiles is so hilarious

What concrete actions will he take to curb the rampant bigotry of the Catholic Church?

Cause in my world we call this meeting "Performative Bullshit"

Denounce the banning of trans healthcare at US Catholic Hospitals Or go back to your wealth castle and keep covering up for paedophile priests, Leo

do you know what a joke is?

or do you just quote some of the worst people in the world in a medium in which there's literally no intonation expressed

while also going I will say a little over the top in your response to my asking for the bishops here to be condemned for their hatred

I also cannot tell if you are joking about the meetup or not

I hope his feet get held to the fire for his own and the Church's anti-queer bigotries, including the numerous and ongoing ones, including those that target our community.

I have little to no hope that the Catholic Church will take action to undo any of the systemic abuses they've helped engender,

and reading that article and seeing how Francis was nice to Nobile did nothing to undo the harm his words caused me, because those anti-trans words were used more by catholic bigots against me, than his kindness to Nobile did as it did nothing to undo the vile rank ideological hatred he engendered