The rebel prit: ‘Gay people the church are not gog to go away’ | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian

Contents:

• GAY UPLE RECEIVE LANDMARK CHURCH WAL BLSG
• GAY CLERGY URGE GREATER CLN CHURCH OF ENGLAND
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND 'MT ACCEPT ACTIVELY GAY CLERGY'
• SURVEY SET TO REVEAL NUMBER OF GAY CLERGY CHURCH OF ENGLAND
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND MAY TURN BLD EYE TO GAY CLERGY SEX
• ROW OVER RELEASE OF GAY CLERGY LIST
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND PROPOS CELEBRATG GAY MARRIAGE
• THE REBEL PRIT: ‘GAY PEOPLE THE CHURCH ARE NOT GOG TO GO AWAY’
• WHY ARE SO MANY OF THE CLERGY GAY?
• WHY ARE SO MANY OF THE CLERGY GAY?
• WHY ARE SO MANY OF THE CLERGY GAY?

GAY UPLE RECEIVE LANDMARK CHURCH WAL BLSG

However stopped short of allowg gay upl to marry s move has put the Church Wal at odds wh s sister Anglin church, the Church of England, which forbids clergy om blsg gay Lee said the service, at St Collen's Church, Llangollen, Denbighshire, was "extremely special". It marks a signifint shift om the historil church teachg that homosexual relatnships are sful. "Image source, Andrei Daniel ProductnImage ptn, Father Taylor is prit--charge at St Collen's Church, LlangollenThe Bishop of St Asaph, the Right Revered Gregory Cameron, led the service at St Collen's Church, Llangollen, where Father Taylor is said was "a great honour and privilege" to lead the first blsg for a gay uple that the Church was aware have a "nscience clse" which means they n opt out of offerg the blsg if they disagree.

Fourteen Church of England clergy same-sex marriag have lled on bishops to do more to clu gay people the life of the a letter to the Sunday Tim, they said they wanted to eventually see gay upl allowed to marry Church. Some of the clergy signg the letter were revealg they were gay and married for the first time letter after Bishop Nicholas Chamberla said on Friday he was gay and a relatnship. Publitn the n-up to a College of Bishops meetg om 12 to 15 September which will discs issu of epispal mistry and clergy said bishops should be bold, and allow gay people to "celebrate whout fear and openns", though they said that now is not yet the time to change the church's official unrstandg of letter reads: "But many our parish have already ma that move and is time to rpect that a diversy of theology wh the Church now exists and that there is more than one unrstandg of what a fahful Christian may believe on the issu.

"Image source, Dce of LlnImage ptn, The Bishop of Grantham beme a sufagan the Lln dce November last yearBishop Chamberla revealed he was gay an terview wh the Guardian, which he said he unrstood and lived by the Church guil, which say gay clergy mt rema celibate. Followg the news, the nservative Anglin group Gafn said appotg a gay man as the bishop of Grantham had been a "major error" Chamberla was nsecrated last year by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Jt Welby - who has said he knew about the bishop's sex relatnships and the ChurchThe Hoe of Bishops has issued guidance about gay relatnships which say "same sex relatnships often embody genue mutualy and fily" the guidance adds: "Gettg married to someone of the same sex would, however, clearly be at variance wh the teachg of the Church of England.

GAY CLERGY URGE GREATER CLN CHURCH OF ENGLAND

"However, the sentiments have not been followed throughout the Anglin source, PAImage ptn, Gene Robson is nsired the first openly gay bishop the Anglin worldIn the US, Gene Robson's electn as Bishop of the Epispal Dce of New Hampshire 2003 provoked a furore om nservative Anglins around the world, and ntributed to the rise of the nservative Gafn the UK, the Dean of St Albans, the Very Reverend Jefey John entered to a civil partnership was twice tipped to bee a bishop - at Readg 2003, then at Southwark 2010 - but was not appoted.

Currently bans gay weddgs church, allows prayers of support to same sex upl followg a civil partnership or marriage and allows clergy to enter a civil partnership. In a 2017 terview, when asked for his views on “gay sex”, the Archbishop of Canterbury Jt Welby, said: “I am havg to stggle to be fahful to the tradn, fahful to the scripture, to unrstand what the ll and will of God is the 21st century and to rpond appropriately wh an answer for all people … that vers both sis of the argument. The 1998 Lambeth Conference (a gatherg of bishops om the worldwi provc of the Anglin Communn) passed a rolutn characterisg “homosexual practice as patible wh Scripture”.

This rolutn is not bdg on any of the Anglin church worldwi, and some of them have gone on to orda gay clergy and/or to celebrate same-sex marriag. What is the suatn wh gay clergy? In 2017, Revd Andrew Forhew-Ca, a vir London who married his hband 2015, rigned om his post cg the prsure of workg for an “stutnally homophobic anisatn”.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND 'MT ACCEPT ACTIVELY GAY CLERGY'

This did not change the Church of England’s teachg on marriage, but did ll for opposn to homophobia.

A leadg historian has lled for the Church of England to accept gay partnerships among s clergy, stead of enuragg them to hi their sexualy or rema celibate. Diarmaid MacCulloch, profsor of the history of the church at the Universy of Oxford and prenter of BBC4's A History of Christiany, wr the Guardian that while there has been a revolutn attus towards gay people the UK, "the church has jt stuck s fgers s ears and chanted la-la-la". "His ments e nearly a week after was revealed that Jefey John, the most senr openly gay cleric the church, was nsirg sug his employers for discrimatn.

MacCulloch argu that "the Anglin munn has … imposed pulsory celibacy on a large sectn of s clergy: those who regnise they are predomantly gay sexual orientatn". He also cricis the selectn procs for new prits, which he says is obssed wh the sexualy of ndidat and "vot an ordate amount of time to quizzg them about " the moment the church's posn is that there is no bar to gay people assumg cleril office, even if they are civil partnerships, wh the ccial proviso that they mt not be sexually active.

SURVEY SET TO REVEAL NUMBER OF GAY CLERGY CHURCH OF ENGLAND

"Reverend Rod Thomas, chair of the nservative group Reform, said the appotment of a gay bishop England would lead to divisn the church as had done the US. "Explag the church's abily to e to terms wh the issue of gay clergy, MacCulloch poted to a crisis of masculy. "It's tertg that female homosexualy don't tert the clergy so much.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND MAY TURN BLD EYE TO GAY CLERGY SEX

It's male homosexualy and that's bee 's still a very male-domated stutn. A natnal survey of the number of homosexual clergy the Church of England will take place this year, acrdg to gay rights mpaigners.

Inclive Church, a work of dividuals and anisatns workg for better regnn of mori, says the survey will be the first of s kd and will prove that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenred (LGBT) clergy play a ccial role the everyday life of the onle survey will ask participants whether they are sgle, a relatnship, and have had a blsg or thanksgivg service to celebrate their partnership.

"The survey would start late November and take about six months to plete; would be nducted by a firm specialisg populatn month the archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, reerated his opposn to ordag gay clergy and thorisg same-sex blsgs, sayg they were "at the very least analogo" to Christian marriage and people livg such unns uld not "whout ser ngy" have a reprentative functn a church whose public teachg was "at odds wh their liftyle". Church of England bishops plan to turn a bld eye to the sex liv of gay clergyClergy are asked if they will be celibate when ordaed unr current systemNew proposals not to ask about their private liv are now beg nsiredBishops will discs tomorrow and the Synod will vote on the move FebaryBut gay MP Ben Bradshaw says new system simply 'enurag dishonty' Updated: 17:45 BST, 22 January 2017.

ROW OVER RELEASE OF GAY CLERGY LIST

The Church of England, led by the Archbishop of Canterbury (pictured), is nsirg reform on attus to gay clergyThe Church of England is nsirg plans to turn a bld eye to the sex liv of gay clergy bid to avert a growg rift over s treatment of the current system, gay members of the clergy are asked to be celibate, change jobs or seek a promotn to bee a bishop when they are Hoe of Bishops will tomorrow discs proposals to overhl the system so homosexuals will not be asked about their private liv when they jo the Ben Bradshaw, a Labour MP who is a civil partnership, cricised the policy for shroudg homosexualy secrecy as clergy would still be expected to be told the Sunday Tim: 'It is progrs for them to stop askg the celibacy qutn but still leav the Church of England policy based sentially on dishonty and enuragg s clergy to lie. ' The move follows three years of bate on homosexualy wh the church, sce same-sex marriage beme legal and the first ceremony March church, led by Archbishop of Canterbury Jt Welby, still ref to perform gay marriag, leadg to growg rifts wh the new proposal jt a few months after the church alleged that gay clerics had sparked a 'wch hunt' by allegg that 11 bishops were gay seemed to be a move om gay clerics to put prsure on more than 100 bishops who met secretly later that month to discs attus to September, the sufagan – or junr – Bishop of Grantham revealed he was gay and a celibate same-sex relatnship a newspaper terview. It is proposed that gay clergy will not be asked about their sex life, unlike the current system, and the remendatns will be put before the Synod (pictured 2012) FebaryA group of 14 married gay and lbian clergy om prsure group Changg Attus also lled for a relaxatn of CofE l on gay Synod, the church's parliament of lay members, had also discsed the issue July and bate ntu to rage on wh the remendatns put forward by the bishops when they meet tomorrow will then be nsired by the Synod Bradshaw suggted that if the church do not her equaly then the Government should tervene as did 2012 when the Synod refed to allow women to bee members of the clergy have also hted at a mpaign of civil disobedience if the church do not move example uld be rryg out celebratns for marriag performed elsewhere if they are not allowed to marry same-sex upl themselv.

REUTERS/Philip Tosno/PoolLONDON (Rters) - Church of England clergy would be able to regnise and celebrate same-sex marriag and partnerships church servic unr proposals unveiled on Thursday that strengthen the church’s more open approach to proposals e after the mother church for the world’s 80 ln Anglins earlier this year dropped s ban on gay clergy civil partnerships beg of 18 remendatns put forward by a two-year workg group suggted clergy should “be able to offer appropriate servic to mark a fahful same-sex relatnship” group, which had s dissenters, also said the church should warmly wele and affirm “the prence wh the church of gay and lbian people both lay and ordaed”. “The church’s teachg on sexualy is tensn wh ntemporary social attus, not only for gay and lbian Christians but for straight Christians too, ” noted the report that will now be discsed by key groups the spirual head of the Church of England, Archbishop of Canterbury Jt Welby, has acknowledged there has been a “revolutn” attus towards homosexualy and that the church’s stance agast gay marriage uld be seen as out-of-step wh public opn.

Parliament approved same-sex marriage earlier this year, spe opposn om several relig groups and Conservative legislators, allowg gay upl to marry England om 2014. In 2017, he rigned, publicly nmng the church as “stutnally homophobic”. It was a bold statement, and one he knew would bar him om ever heterosexual prits n marry and have sex, gay clergy members are expected to rema unmarried and celibate.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND PROPOS CELEBRATG GAY MARRIAGE

In April, he and a aln of LGBTQ clergy members lnched the Campaign for Equal Marriage the Church of England, which advot for the right of lbian and gay Anglins to marry their lol parish, and mands that gay clergy members who marry should be allowed to exercise their mistry. “Unls the Church of England n be enthiastic s wele of gay and lbian people, and their fai and iends, too, we don’t stand a chance.

“I never experienced any homophobia about , ” he rells. By Forhew-Ca’s acunt, the broad acceptance he enjoyed wasn’t an aberratn, but ditive of Anglinism at the Rev Andrew Forhew-Ca (ont, third om right) wh fellow openly gay members of the General Synod 2017.

THE REBEL PRIT: ‘GAY PEOPLE THE CHURCH ARE NOT GOG TO GO AWAY’

A rurgent nservatism wh the C of E unhappily cid wh more antagonistic forms of gay activism and liberatn after the partial crimalisatn of same-sex timacy 1967.

Pri march began the followg , while the onset of the Aids crisis the 80s would force sexualy to the public growg visibily of gay and transgenr people wh society forced the church to fe s posn. In 1991, published the Issu Human Sexualy, a document, which treads a lite le between passn for and acceptance of “homophil” wh the the Lambeth nference of 1998, a global nveng of more than 100 natnal church across the world that tak place about every 10 years, sexualy me up aga.

10, which passed wh an overwhelmg majory, stated that “persons who experience themselv as havg a homosexual orientatn” are “loved by God” and “full members of the Body of Christ”, but that, nohels, “homosexual practice” is “patible wh Scripture”.

WHY ARE SO MANY OF THE CLERGY GAY?

For Forhew-Ca, was an abditn of the church’s duty of re to s clergy and gay lay. ’”The picture he pats is one of disorr, barely held together by a refully cultivated ambiguy among the church’s top brass: bishops who quietly voice support for same-sex marriage behd closed doors vote agast any liberalisatn towards gay and lbian clergy the synod, he claims. Gay people the church are not gog to go away.

Gay clergy are permted to be relatnships so long as they are rights mpaigners say that some parish are unwelg or hostile, and some s there has been emotnal or spirual bishops’ move me as a three-year missn to exame issu of sexualy and inty proposed further “engagement and learng” by parish. The world beyond the church has set the moral agenda, and those who kneel wh our footballers, or who see no difference between attendg the marriage of their gay or their straight iends or work lleagu, fd the muny of fah to be wantg and ed creasgly offensive. Gay and lbian clergy are permted to be relatnships so long as they are celibate.

WHY ARE SO MANY OF THE CLERGY GAY?

WHY ARE SO MANY OF THE CLERGY GAY?