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  I just posted a new video on my YouTube channel, and honestly… It’s one of the most personal things I’ve ever talked about.   When I was a baby, a doctor told my family that when I stopped being “cost‑effective,” he would arrange to put me in an institution. That was the plan for my life — not because I needed medical care, but because it was easier for the system to deal with me that way.   My parents didn’t listen. And because they didn’t, everything about my life changed.   I got to grow up at home. I got to grow up with my brothers. I got to go to school, be part of my community, graduate, earn a degree, and become an advocate. All of that would have been taken from me if my family had followed that doctor’s advice.   In the video, I talk about what almost happened, what did happen, and why this still matters today — because the threat of institutionalization isn’t “history.” It’s something disabled people are still fighting in 2026. ...

 

  Peace through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, amen. My brothers and sisters in Christ, it is striking — almost cynical — that the United States Supreme Court chose this week, of all weeks, to release its opinion on conversion therapy. Traditionally, the Court waits until the final weeks of its term in June to announce major decisions. This time, however, they issued their ruling early. Perhaps they intended to give conservative priests and pastors something to preach about on Easter Sunday, the second most attended day in the Christian year after Christmas. Yet our calling as members of the universal Church is unmistakably clear. We are not called to preach cruelty or shame, least of all on Easter Sunday, the day our Lord and Savior rose from the tomb. We are called to love our neighbors. As Jesus teaches in Matthew 22:39: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” This commandment carries no exceptions. It does not exclude anyone based on identity, and it does not bend ...