Gay Anglins the ACNA | Hans Boersma | First Thgs

Contents:

• THE ANGLIN CHURCH’S ‘KICK THE GUTS’ TO GAY PARISHNERS
• GAY ANGLINS THE ACNA
• DEAR GAY ANGLINS LETTER

THE ANGLIN CHURCH’S ‘KICK THE GUTS’ TO GAY PARISHNERS

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTDivisns over the acceptance of homosexualy have proved tractable both on a global level and si even liberal-leang untri like New Fuller/Prs Associatn, via Getty ImagWELLINGTON, New Zealand — Craig Watson has spent his life searchg for a church that accepts him fully as a gay man. ” In late July, Jt Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury and global lear of the Anglin Church (known the Uned Stat as the Epispal Church), affirmed as church policy a 1998 statement that rejects “homosexual practice as nsistent wh scripture. ”Divisns over the acceptance of homosexualy have raised doubts about whether the Anglin Church n rema uned, a nflict that has played out both on a global level and si even liberal-leang untri like New Zealand, where some Anglins have broken away to prerve tradnal tensns have pulled at the Anglin Church, which has 85 ln members worldwi, for s.

Gene Robson, an openly gay prit, as bishop of New Hampshire. In recent years, however, natnal church ​​Wal, Stland, Canada, Brazil and Mexi have voted to perm clergy to eher officiate or bls same-sex divisns were on display aga last month at Lambeth, the Anglin Church’s cennial nference, where the 650 bishops attendance argued over the treatment of lbian, gay and transgenr Rowland/Getty ImagThe archbishops of Nigeria, Rwanda and Uganda did not attend Lambeth prott of “biblil revisnism” by liberal church. He said at Lambeth that church wh liberal views on homosexualy would not be punished.

GAY ANGLINS THE ACNA

But he also sought to mollify nservative bishops, who reprent a majory of Anglins worldwi, by affirmg the 1998 statement llg homosexualy nsistent wh archbishop said that for church many untri, changg tradnal teachg on same-sex relatnships “challeng their very existence. ” At the same time, he noted, church elsewhere face “risn, ntempt and even attack” if they fail to support gay and transgenr equivalence drew new cricism om liberal Anglins like Mr.

” He left the Baptist church after beg prsured to what is known as nversn therapy, a discreded practice that aims to “reverse” the sexualy of gay people.

“He’s willg to put the cln of nservative people who reject homosexualy above the cln, safety and love” of L. ”He said he also felt signaled to other Christian nomatns New Zealand that teachgs cril of gays, lbians and transgenr people were acceptable. ”In an example of how the global divisns over homosexualy have been cemented, Atralian Anglins sought to tervene New Zealand, even though natnal church tradnally avoid terjectg themselv each other’s affairs, Dr.

DEAR GAY ANGLINS LETTER

”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 9 of the New York edn wh the headle: Anglin Church Delivers a ‘Kick the Guts’ to Gay Lay. On 7 June 2003 Gene Robson be the first openly gay bishop the Epispal church of the US; on 3 Augt 2022 Archbishop Jt Welby “affirms validy” of the 1998 Lambeth claratn that homosexual relatnships are patible wh scripture (Jt Welby ‘affirms validy’ of 1998 gay sex is s claratn, 2 Augt).

Ian GordonFolktone, Kent The affirmatn that gay sex is a s will e much nsternatn, cludg among many Anglins who regnise the sufferg that this regrsive posn has flicted on gay people. William BartramHampton, Greater London I spect that a lot of people will share my disgt at the affirmatn that gay sex is a s.

The recent upheaval wh the Anglin Church of North Ameri (ACNA) about “gay Anglins” stems om ignorg this le. This, seems to me, is what’s happeng the “gay Anglin” bacle. The Pastoral Statement sgl out, therefore, the language of “gay Christians” (and also “same-sex attracted Christians”) as a “subtle shift om intifitn Christ by modifyg our Christian inty wh personal orientatns and attractn.