Gay NY Prits Road to a Lonely Exile London, by Curtis Rist, Newsday (New York), Febary 16, 1993

Contents:

• MARRIED GAY PRIT JEREMY DAVI: ‘THE BISHOPS SAY WE’RE NOT MOLLG TEACHGS OF THE CHURCH. Y WE ARE’
• WHY ARE SO MANY OF THE CLERGY GAY?
• WHY ARE SO MANY OF THE CLERGY GAY?
• GAY PRIT RIGNS AFTER FURORE OVER CHURCH BLSG
• ‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
• OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS

MARRIED GAY PRIT JEREMY DAVI: ‘THE BISHOPS SAY WE’RE NOT MOLLG TEACHGS OF THE CHURCH. Y WE ARE’

Meanwhile, illtratg the C of E’s gay marriage post lottery, the bishop of Salisbury – Davi’s own dce – merely rapped his knuckl wh an obligatory letter of msag of support om wh and outsi the church have poured to the uple’s home – a nverted Methodist chapel eight om Salisbury thedral, where Davi worked for 30 years – he and McEnery have found their own rpons to the eccliastil fallout of their marriage salmon pasta and a glass of we their bright kchen, crammed wh Christmas rds and the tr of everyday life, McEnery scrib bishop Tim Dak’s refal to grant Davi “permissn to officiate” the dce of Wchter as “an afont and an sult. ”Gay virs, of urse, are nothg new. That has unravelled as social attus towards homosexualy have liberalised, acpanied by chang to the law over the last half century: crimalisatn 1967, the troductn of civil partnerships 2005, and marriage equaly a rult, the church has been plunged to tortured bate over the issue, which has threatened to spl the wir Anglin munn amid theologil wranglg and bter accatns of homophobia and C of E’s posn is this: clergy are permted to enter to same-sex civil partnerships, so long as they give assuranc that the relatnship is celibate.

Meanwhile, much of secular society regards the C of E’s agonised nvolutns on a sle rangg om bemement to the bate on homosexualy rag among theologians, primat, bishops and members of the C of E’s synod, the nsequenc of the church’s stance reverberate real life.

”As he grew olr and me to unrstand his sexual orientatn, he also grappled wh the “qutn of whether you uld be a prit and be homosexual at the same time.

WHY ARE SO MANY OF THE CLERGY GAY?

”Social attus were relaxg, and the 1967 Sexual Offenc Act, which crimalised homosexualy, was passed while Davi was at Cambridge. Davi took jobs London and Cardiff before movg to Salisbury and meetg McEnery, the son of a Church of England vir, who had recently e out as gay after years of sexual nfn.

“After all, I was the precentor of Salisbury thedral; I wasn’t gog to flnt my sexualy, I didn’t want to bee known as the gay prit. Jt si their ont door hangs the figure of J impaled on a ccifix; by their kchen door hangs a rnchy gay lendar. He's also gay.

WHY ARE SO MANY OF THE CLERGY GAY?

Every se was handled dividually, their prs spokperson said, and ncrete figur were not the Roman Catholic Church a culture of silence appears to surround this issue: gay prits keep quiet, and their superrs look the other way for as long as they n. Bee the rultg secrecy is hard to al wh, gay prits meet at Pastorosa Munich. "It's a kd of self-help group for gay prits tryg to e to terms wh their extremely nflicted, tense suatn, " says Michael Brkschrö Catholic theologian and soclogist, who is an assistant profsor at the Universy of Munich, is a member of a workg group of gay theologians.

He knows many gay prits throughout Germany who have anized themselv to groups remblg secret societi. In Old Catholicism, celibacy is not mandatory, homosexualy is accepted, and women n be ordaed. Priller works at the "Rosa Alter" unselg service, found 2009 to help olr gay, lbian and transgenr folk whose felt inty as a man or a woman do not match their blogil inty.

Priller says that olr homosexuals are often reluctant to go to nventnal help centers: "They're embarrassed, " he says.

GAY PRIT RIGNS AFTER FURORE OVER CHURCH BLSG

He says: "Beg gay and gettg old is an tertg procs.

Men particularly -- who until 1969 lived wh the fact that their sexual orientatn uld actually land them prison Germany -- are reluctant to this day to publicly acknowledge beg gay. And while he himself, as an openly gay man, was twice elected to the Bad Tölz cy uncil, Priller says that even today small muni and villag, g out n still be as hard as the origal article GermanPhoto - Rosa Alter.

A gay prit who angered nservative Christians by exchangg rgs and vows wh his partner a church ceremony for his civil partnership London last month has rigned, emerged last Rev Dr David Lord, a New Zealanr who tied the knot wh English clergyman Peter Cowell on May 31, "felt appropriate to lay down his clergy license", acrdg to a statement released through the Anglin church New cisn will bar him om officiatg as a prit. Dudley add: "We should not allow the cultural posn of bishops om other untri to affect our rponse to the very large number of gay people and gay clergy the Church of England. The Rev Dr Gil Fraser, vir of Putney and print of Inclive Church, a mpaign group workg for equal rights for gay Christians, said: "This is disgraceful.

‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT

The Rev Richard Kirker, chief executive of the Lbian and Gay Christian Movement, said: "I hope nudg the church to the 21st century.

OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS

There are so many gay clergy civil partnerships, whose tegry leads them to wantg to have their relatnships affirmed by their fah.