Today
seems like a good day to say something that’s been on my mind for years—
To all
the LGBTQ people that went to Catholic schools with me: I’m sorry for not
taking the time to realize how screwed up the church’s policies about
queer people are. Sorry for anything I said or did, whether intentionally or
unintentionally, that made you feel less than equal, less than infinitely meaningful.
Or at the least, towards the end, for not doing anything substantial for you in
a culture that was frequently hostile to your identity. And thank you to the
friends, teachers and writers who woke me up.
"It is so ordered."
We all will benefit from today’s victory in ways impossible to count or predict, but this belongs to you, and you are so deserving.
