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.@CrisisTextLine provides free support, via text, for people in crisis. Here is a stat from a staffer: "In the past 90 days: 69% of LGBT texters came out for the first time or shared thoughts about their identity to one of our Counselors. 45% of our texters identify as LGBTQ..."
"We get a large volume of LGBTQ texters from the following: Louisiana, CT, NM, DE, and VT. Top issues include: depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide ideation. Ages are primarily 18 and under, and 13 and under."
This is another reminder of the need for all of us, including religious organizations, to reach out to LGBTQ youth, and to recognize that in many places LGBTQ issues as life issues.
Anyone can text SHARE to 741741 to reach a Crisis Counselor. Free, confidential, and available 24/7.
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Two priests in two separate parishes (US and Canada) attack transgender people, one talking about a "crime." There is no group of people in the church so relentlessly excluded, marginalized and persecuted as LGBTQ people. They have to listen to this even in homilies on Sundays.
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Ironically, the Gospel reading for Sunday (which both of these priests would have read) was Jesus saying that each of us is the "light of the world" (Mt 5:13-16). Well, LGBTQ people are also lights in our church. And we have to stop hiding their lights under our bushel baskets.
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