by Ancient Bron: 'Puzzled' mentator posed the qutn a ment unr my prev entry, "Why are so many of the clergy gay??? It seems to be the norm the days. I nnot unrstand ." A ltle 'Googlg' fds some tertg facts given the current protts by LGBT activists about excln. Twenty-two years ago Andrew
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’
Peter Priller was a Catholic town chapla Germany until he fell love wh a male parishner, and was subsequently exmunited. Though many closeted gay Catholic prits live “secret societi,” Priller says there are other choic. * gay priest in london *
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.
WHY ARE SO MANY OF THE CLERGY GAY?
by Ancient Bron: 'Puzzled' mentator posed the qutn a ment unr my prev entry, "Why are so many of the clergy gay??? It seems to be the norm the days. I nnot unrstand ." A ltle 'Googlg' fds some tertg facts given the current protts by LGBT activists about excln. Twenty-two years ago Andrew * gay priest in london *
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.
WHY ARE SO MANY OF THE CLERGY GAY?
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. ”Social attus were relaxg, and the 1967 Sexual Offenc Act, which crimalised homosexualy, was passed while Davi was at Cambridge.
GAY PRIT RIGNS AFTER FURORE OVER CHURCH BLSG
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.
‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
“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.
OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
He's also 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.