You know, it’s astonishing to me that so many lay Catholics, good people who say they support LGBTQ equality, continue to prop up the Roman Catholic Church. I know that for the most part there’s nothing you can do about the horrible things nuns and priests believe and teach. To become nuns and priests, they had to affirm truly awful things about us queer people. So, for the most part I just write them off as lost causes.

But, lay people! Study after study shows that Catholic lay people are very likely to support LGBTQ equality, hugely more likely than nuns and priests.

So the question is, how to convince those good and decent Catholic lay people to pressure the hierarchy, to withhold their participation and financial support, to force their leaders to become better people and to stop teaching evil things.

I don’t know the answer to that question. To me it’s mysterious to the point of being incomprehensible. I know that I could never support an organization that oppressed and persecuted classes of people.

I wish I understood how to get more Catholic lay people on board with cutting the metaphoric legs out from under their leaders. If the money dries up, nuns and priests lose their power.

I wish I knew how to make that happen faster.