In a video message to the faithful, Springfield, Illinois Bishop Thomas John Paprocki, a well-known defender of Catholic orthodoxy, said transgender activists have turned “common sense…on its head in our culture” by insisting that subjective feelings about gender be given preference over biological reality.
Paprocki listed recent national and local instances of the clash between transgenderism and bathroom privacy. He cited examples from around Illinois of schools granting students access to restrooms and intimate facilities designated for the opposite sex and the Obama administration’s Department of Justice warning North Carolina that its new law preventing men from accessing women’s bathrooms and vice versa violates civil rights law and could result in a loss of billions federal dollars.
Paprocki is no stranger to the clash between faith and LGBT activism. In 2002, his former secretary was murdered by ...Read more>>