A Delicate Dance
A Delicate Dance
Utilizing and Challenging the Sexual Doctrine of the Catholic Church in Support of LGBTIQ Persons
In this chapter, a professor of Christian ethics at a Roman Catholic liberal arts college describes the ways in which her campus community responded to a transgender colleague who had undergone genital reassignment surgery and to a group of students who had advocated for a public event on safer sex practices. Both situations represented opportunities for participants to engage in the “subtle, complex, and poignant interpersonal, institutional, and moral ‘dance’” that characterizes discussions of LGBTQ concerns in Catholic institutions of higher education. Naming this dance prompts a discussion of a series of questions about heterosexual privilege, conscience, institutional identity, and her own identity as a Catholic, heterosexual, feminist scholar.
Keywords: college professors, Christian ethics, transgender, safe sex, Catholic colleges
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