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Contents:
- THE GAY CHURCH
- ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED
- MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
- EDOR’S COLUMN: THE POSSIBILI LOST TO A DEAD GAY PRCE
THE GAY CHURCH
At Stonewall Mistri YOU have a say, doubts and qutns and ments are WELCOME! We have no dogma to nvce you to swallow, no shame, not anxiety. We are searchg alongsi one another for a better life. We wele LGBTQIA+, bary, non bary folks of all fahs and alli to Gay Church. * gay church *
We celebrate to honor and raise awarens of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer or qutng (LGBTQIA+) muny, s acplishments, and s efforts to achieve jtice and equal opportuny. Na ICM posso ser quem sou, sem nenhum tipo másras, posso me clarar gay, cristão, pastor, enfim, um ser humano que vive a plenu da unhão mha sexualida e pirualida. ) - In Robert Fieler's book, "Trbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberatn, " Filer reviews the event that was for s the adlit crime agast the LGBTQ+ muny the Uned Stat; and he thoroughly explor the life, ath, and legacy of MCC's Rev.
We would like to humbly ask for donatns to Big Gay Church and our missn to serve others through the love of God the LGBTQ muny. The Council for Christian Social Actn, a precsor body to Jtice and Wns Mistri adopted the “Rolutn on Homosexuals and the Law.
ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED
Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer/Qutng (LGBTQ)Same Genr Lovg (SGL) Whoever you are Wherever you are on life's journeyYou are wele * gay church *
Fd an Open and Affirmg UCC churchPlease note: Many UCC ngregatns which may not have adopted an ONA venant for var reasons are neverthels welg and safe muni for gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr Christians.
No one will want to hear that their vetons, lyg, fornitn, evil thoughts, strife, homosexualy, gossip, pri, envy, adultery, takg the name of the Lord va, lt, murr, etc.
In the Uned Stat, however, where there are 37, 000 prits, no pennt study has found fewer than 15 percent to be gay, and some have found as many as 60 percent. A church that, sce 2005, bans prits wh “ep-seated homosexual tennci” and officially teach that gay men are “objectively disorred” and herently disposed toward “trsic moral evil” is actually posed, ways very few other stutns are, of gay men. The llapse of the closet public and private life the past three s has ma the disproportnate homosexualy of the Catholic prithood much ls easy to hi, ignore, or ny.
MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
The Catholic Church is an almost unique stutn — shunng homosexualy but havg so many gay men s ranks, wr Andrew Sullivan. The Vatin’s failure to reckon wh their sexualy has created a crisis for Catholicism. * gay church *
This cultural and moral shift has not only changed the nscns of most Amerin Catholics (67 percent of whom support civil marriage for gay upl) and gay prits (many of whom are close to qutg) but also broken the silence that long shroud the subject. “I replied wh another qutn: ‘Tell me, when God looks at a gay person, do he endorse the existence of this person wh love or reject and nmn this person?
” In the fal draft of the 2014 Synod on the Fay, Francis clud explic mentn of the “gifts and quali” of homosexuals, askg, “Are we pable of welg [them]? Alarmed by the possibily that divorced and remarried people might be weled as well as gays, tradnalists lnched a fierce rearguard mpaign agast the new papacy, wh a foc on what some lled a “Lavenr Mafia” nng the church, and broke new ground nnectg this directly to the horrifyg revelatns of sex abe that me to light 2002.
In creasgly direct ways, they have argued that the root of the sndal was not abe of power, or pedophilia, or clerilism, or the distortive psychologil effects of celibacy and stutnal homophobia, but gayns self. “There is a homosexual culture, not only among the clergy but even wh the hierarchy, which needs to be purified at the root, ” the Amerin rdal Raymond Burke clared Augt. “It is time to adm that there is a homosexual subculture wh the hierarchy of the Catholic Church that is wreakg great vastatn, ” he wrote.
EDOR’S COLUMN: THE POSSIBILI LOST TO A DEAD GAY PRCE
“If you’ll perm me, what the church needs now is more hatred” of homosexual sexual behavr, “a s so grave that cri out to heaven for vengeance. ” Michael Hichborn, head of the ge-right Lepanto Instute, lled for a “plete and thorough removal of all homosexual clergymen om the church … It is gog to be difficult and will likely rult a very ser prit shortage, but ’s fely worth the effort.
Here, seemed, was a pedophile and an abive gay man, at the very apex of the church, known to be sexually active wh semarians, protected by his peers, and tolerated for s by many the hierarchy, cludg the last three pop. New onle media anizatns — led by Brebart-style webs such as LifeSe News and Church Milant — now routely pounce on any cints volvg gay prits and have an fluential dience the Vatin. As a rult, almost all gay prits are closeted, for fear of beg targeted or termated, which mak them uniquely barred om enterg the discsn.