The Christian group who sent comfort dogs to support mourners in the wake of the attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando acted with compassion—but behind the healing gesture lies a potentially hurtful…
Sean O'Neil
Sean O’Neil is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Sport and Health at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and he holds a PhD in Religion (Religion in the Americas track) from the University of Florida. He studies the intersection of religion, sports, and disability and has had university appointments in a variety of departments, programs, and centers in the United States and Canada: including Religious Studies/Comparative Religion; American Studies; and the Cultural Studies of Sport. He currently resides in Fort Worth, Texas where he is completing a manuscript entitled Faith Scripts and Supercrips: Intersections of Sports, Disability, and Religion in Popular Culture.
