Sydney Gay Liberatn Tak On the Anglin Church – A Gay Man's Story Snapshots

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• TWO ARRTED AFTER VLENT CLASH OUTSI SYDNEY CHURCH AHEAD OF MARK LATHAM SPEECHPOLICE SAY THE RT SQUAD AND OPERATNAL SUPPORT WERE LLED TO DISPERSE A NONTATN BETWEEN LGBTIQ+ ACTIVISTS AND UNTER-PROTTERS.POLICE SAID ABOUT 500 PEOPLE WERE VOLVED VLENT PROTTS SYDNEY OUTSI A CHURCH WHERE MARK LATHAM WAS DUE TO GIVE A SPEECH. SOURCE: SUPPLIED / TWTERKEY POTSTWO MEN HAVE BEEN ARRTED AND CHARGED FOLLOWG VLENT PROTTS OUTSI A CHURCH BELFIELD.THE CINT TOOK PLACE OUTSI A CHURCH WHERE NSW ONE NATN LEAR MARK LATHAM WAS SCHLED TO SPEAK.POLICE SAID A NUMBER OF GLASS BOTTL AND OTHER PROJECTIL WERE THROWN AT POLICE.VLENCE HAS MARRED THE NSW ELECTN MPAIGN TRAIL WH THE RT SQUAD BEG LLED AFTER AN OUT-OF-NTROL CLASH BETWEEN PROTT GROUPS ON A SYDNEY STREET.TWO PEOPLE WERE CHARGED AFTER THE PROTT OUTSI A CHURCH SYDNEY'S SOUTHWT, WHERE NSW ONE NATN LEAR MARK LATHAM WAS SCHLED TO GIVE A SPEECH AHEAD OF SATURDAY'S ELECTN.POLICE SAY THE RT SQUAD AND OPERATNAL SUPPORT OFFICERS WERE LLED TO DISPERSE THE CROWD, WHICH HAD GATHERED OUTSI ST MICHAEL'S CHURCH BELFIELD AT ABOUT 5PM ON TUDAY.LGBTIQ+ ACTIVISTS COMMUNY ACTN FOR RABOW RIGHTS WERE PROTTG WHAT THEY EXPECTED TO BE AN "ANTI-TRANS" SPEECH BUT WERE QUICKLY OUTNUMBERED BY HUNDREDS OF UNTER-PROTTERS OM CHRISTIAN LIV MATTER.OFFICERS ARRIVED TO FD ABOUT 500 PEOPLE CLASHG VLENT SCUFFL."A NUMBER OF GLASS BOTTL AND OTHER PROJECTIL WERE THROWN AT POLICE," POLICE SAID A STATEMENT.FOOTAGE SHOWED POLICE OFFICERS SHIELDG LGBTIQ+ ACTIVISTS OM AN ANGRY MOB OF MOSTLY MEN, WHO SHOUTED HOMOPHOBIC SLURS AND ALSO SCRIBED THE PROTTERS AS "DOGS". ANOTHER VIO POSTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA APPEARED TO SHOW UNTER-PROTTERS TELLG LGBTIQ+ ACTIVISTS TO "F**K OFF BACK TO NEWTOWN".A GLASS BOTTLE STCK A MALE NSTABLE WHO WAS TAKEN TO CANTERBURY HOSPAL A STABLE NDN WH AN JURED HAND, WHILE A 38-YEAR-OLD MAN WAS PHED TO THE GROUND AND ASSLTED.THE ONE NATN LEAR LATER TWEETED ABOUT THE CLASH, SAYG HE HAD BEEN VED TO TALK AT AN ELECTN PUBLIC MEETG ABOUT PARENTAL RIGHTS AND PROCEED WH HIS SPEECH.READ MOREMARK LATHAM JOS PLE HANSON'S ONE NATN"I DIDN'T SEE WHAT HAPPENED ON THE ONT STREET BUT I SCERELY NVEY MY BT WISH TO THOSE JURED AND THANK THE POLICE OFFICERS VOLVED FOR THEIR WORK," HE SAID."A POLICIAN NNG FOR ELECTED OFFICE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO MAKE HIS SPEECH WHOUT THAT KD OF ACTN," HE TOLD SYDNEY RAD 2GB ON WEDNDAY."THEY N PROTT ON THE FOOTPATH BUT NOT BLOCKG ROADS AND ACTUALLY BLOCKG ACCS TO THE CHURCH," HE SAID."NO ONE SHOULD TAKE THE LAW TO THEIR OWN HANDS. VLENCE AT POLIL EVENTS IS WRONG," HE TWEETED.MR LATHAM AND LGBTIQ+ ACTIVISTS HAVE LONG CLASHED OVER GENR ISSU WH THE ONE NATN STATE LEAR WANTG LEGISLATN BANNG DISCSN OF GENR DIVERSY CLASSROOMS.A "PARENTAL RIGHTS" BILL HE ONCE PROPOSED WOULD HAVE BANNED TEACHERS OM DISCSG "THE IOLOGY OF GENR FLUIDY TO CHILDREN SCHOOLS" AND PREVENTED SCHOOLS OM SUPPORTG TRANSGENR STUNTS WHOUT PARENTAL NSENT.NSW LABOR LEAR CHRIS MNS SCRIBED THE VLENCE AS UNFORTUNATE."I WOULD LOVE TO SEE A MPAIGN WHERE THERE ARE NO SCEN, WHERE PEOPLE N GET THE VIEWS OUT TO THE PEOPLE OF NSW TO MAKE THEIR LLS," HE SAID ON NE'S TODAY SHOW.INPENNT SYDNEY MP ALEX GREENWICH - WHO IS THE ONLY OPENLY GAY MEMBER OF THE LOWER HOE - MENTED THAT "WORDS AND HATE N LEAD TO VLENCE"."THIS ELECTN WE HAVE SEEN A SMALL BUT LOUD GROUP OF CEL AND LAZY POLICIANS TARGET THE LGBTQIA+ MUNY FOR ATTENTN," HE TWEETED.READ MOREPROTTERS MARCH THROUGH NEWTOWN CHANTG 'HAIL MARY' DURG WORLDPRI"THEY ARE A DISGRACE AND ALL MAJOR PARTY POLIL LEARS SHOULD LL OUT AND NMN ."GREENS MP JENNY LEONG SAID VLENCE WAS "NEVER OKAY - NOT ON PEACEFUL PROTTERS - NOT ON ANYONE"."ONE NATN REPRENTATIV AND THE DISCRIMATORY VIEWS THEY SPEW OUT HAVE A TOXIC FLUENCE ON OUR SOCIETY," SHE TWEETED.A 34-YEAR-OLD MAN WAS ARRTED AND CHARGED WH ENURAGG THE MISSN OF CRIM AND GIVEN NDNAL BAIL TO APPEAR BEFORE BANKSTOWN LOL COURT ON 11 APRIL.A 41-YEAR-OLD MAN WAS CHARGED WH MON ASSLT AND GIVEN AN ATTENDANCE NOTICE TO APPEAR BEFORE BANKSTOWN LOL COURT ON 30 MAY.SHARE4 M READPUBLISHED 22 MARCH 2023 8:29AMUPDATED 22 MARCH 2023 10:12AMSOURCE: AAPAVAILABLE OTHER LANGUAGTAGSSYDNEYSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU
• BEHD THE SPL OF THE ANGLIN CHURCH ATRALIA OVER GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIED UPLE TOLD TO SEPARATE, BE CELIBATE TO KEEP JOB CHURCH
• I’M GAY, MARRIED, AND NOT LEAVG MY CHURCH
• GAY SYDNEY · CY GUI
• A GAY MAN'S STORY SNAPSHOTS
• THE ANGLIN CHURCH’S ‘KICK THE GUTS’ TO GAY PARISHNERS

TWO ARRTED AFTER VLENT CLASH OUTSI SYDNEY CHURCH AHEAD OF MARK LATHAM SPEECHPOLICE SAY THE RT SQUAD AND OPERATNAL SUPPORT WERE LLED TO DISPERSE A NONTATN BETWEEN LGBTIQ+ ACTIVISTS AND UNTER-PROTTERS.POLICE SAID ABOUT 500 PEOPLE WERE VOLVED VLENT PROTTS SYDNEY OUTSI A CHURCH WHERE MARK LATHAM WAS DUE TO GIVE A SPEECH. SOURCE: SUPPLIED / TWTERKEY POTSTWO MEN HAVE BEEN ARRTED AND CHARGED FOLLOWG VLENT PROTTS OUTSI A CHURCH BELFIELD.THE CINT TOOK PLACE OUTSI A CHURCH WHERE NSW ONE NATN LEAR MARK LATHAM WAS SCHLED TO SPEAK.POLICE SAID A NUMBER OF GLASS BOTTL AND OTHER PROJECTIL WERE THROWN AT POLICE.VLENCE HAS MARRED THE NSW ELECTN MPAIGN TRAIL WH THE RT SQUAD BEG LLED AFTER AN OUT-OF-NTROL CLASH BETWEEN PROTT GROUPS ON A SYDNEY STREET.TWO PEOPLE WERE CHARGED AFTER THE PROTT OUTSI A CHURCH SYDNEY'S SOUTHWT, WHERE NSW ONE NATN LEAR MARK LATHAM WAS SCHLED TO GIVE A SPEECH AHEAD OF SATURDAY'S ELECTN.POLICE SAY THE RT SQUAD AND OPERATNAL SUPPORT OFFICERS WERE LLED TO DISPERSE THE CROWD, WHICH HAD GATHERED OUTSI ST MICHAEL'S CHURCH BELFIELD AT ABOUT 5PM ON TUDAY.LGBTIQ+ ACTIVISTS COMMUNY ACTN FOR RABOW RIGHTS WERE PROTTG WHAT THEY EXPECTED TO BE AN "ANTI-TRANS" SPEECH BUT WERE QUICKLY OUTNUMBERED BY HUNDREDS OF UNTER-PROTTERS OM CHRISTIAN LIV MATTER.OFFICERS ARRIVED TO FD ABOUT 500 PEOPLE CLASHG VLENT SCUFFL."A NUMBER OF GLASS BOTTL AND OTHER PROJECTIL WERE THROWN AT POLICE," POLICE SAID A STATEMENT.FOOTAGE SHOWED POLICE OFFICERS SHIELDG LGBTIQ+ ACTIVISTS OM AN ANGRY MOB OF MOSTLY MEN, WHO SHOUTED HOMOPHOBIC SLURS AND ALSO SCRIBED THE PROTTERS AS "DOGS". ANOTHER VIO POSTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA APPEARED TO SHOW UNTER-PROTTERS TELLG LGBTIQ+ ACTIVISTS TO "F**K OFF BACK TO NEWTOWN".A GLASS BOTTLE STCK A MALE NSTABLE WHO WAS TAKEN TO CANTERBURY HOSPAL A STABLE NDN WH AN JURED HAND, WHILE A 38-YEAR-OLD MAN WAS PHED TO THE GROUND AND ASSLTED.THE ONE NATN LEAR LATER TWEETED ABOUT THE CLASH, SAYG HE HAD BEEN VED TO TALK AT AN ELECTN PUBLIC MEETG ABOUT PARENTAL RIGHTS AND PROCEED WH HIS SPEECH.READ MOREMARK LATHAM JOS PLE HANSON'S ONE NATN"I DIDN'T SEE WHAT HAPPENED ON THE ONT STREET BUT I SCERELY NVEY MY BT WISH TO THOSE JURED AND THANK THE POLICE OFFICERS VOLVED FOR THEIR WORK," HE SAID."A POLICIAN NNG FOR ELECTED OFFICE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO MAKE HIS SPEECH WHOUT THAT KD OF ACTN," HE TOLD SYDNEY RAD 2GB ON WEDNDAY."THEY N PROTT ON THE FOOTPATH BUT NOT BLOCKG ROADS AND ACTUALLY BLOCKG ACCS TO THE CHURCH," HE SAID."NO ONE SHOULD TAKE THE LAW TO THEIR OWN HANDS. VLENCE AT POLIL EVENTS IS WRONG," HE TWEETED.MR LATHAM AND LGBTIQ+ ACTIVISTS HAVE LONG CLASHED OVER GENR ISSU WH THE ONE NATN STATE LEAR WANTG LEGISLATN BANNG DISCSN OF GENR DIVERSY CLASSROOMS.A "PARENTAL RIGHTS" BILL HE ONCE PROPOSED WOULD HAVE BANNED TEACHERS OM DISCSG "THE IOLOGY OF GENR FLUIDY TO CHILDREN SCHOOLS" AND PREVENTED SCHOOLS OM SUPPORTG TRANSGENR STUNTS WHOUT PARENTAL NSENT.NSW LABOR LEAR CHRIS MNS SCRIBED THE VLENCE AS UNFORTUNATE."I WOULD LOVE TO SEE A MPAIGN WHERE THERE ARE NO SCEN, WHERE PEOPLE N GET THE VIEWS OUT TO THE PEOPLE OF NSW TO MAKE THEIR LLS," HE SAID ON NE'S TODAY SHOW.INPENNT SYDNEY MP ALEX GREENWICH - WHO IS THE ONLY OPENLY GAY MEMBER OF THE LOWER HOE - MENTED THAT "WORDS AND HATE N LEAD TO VLENCE"."THIS ELECTN WE HAVE SEEN A SMALL BUT LOUD GROUP OF CEL AND LAZY POLICIANS TARGET THE LGBTQIA+ MUNY FOR ATTENTN," HE TWEETED.READ MOREPROTTERS MARCH THROUGH NEWTOWN CHANTG 'HAIL MARY' DURG WORLDPRI"THEY ARE A DISGRACE AND ALL MAJOR PARTY POLIL LEARS SHOULD LL OUT AND NMN ."GREENS MP JENNY LEONG SAID VLENCE WAS "NEVER OKAY - NOT ON PEACEFUL PROTTERS - NOT ON ANYONE"."ONE NATN REPRENTATIV AND THE DISCRIMATORY VIEWS THEY SPEW OUT HAVE A TOXIC FLUENCE ON OUR SOCIETY," SHE TWEETED.A 34-YEAR-OLD MAN WAS ARRTED AND CHARGED WH ENURAGG THE MISSN OF CRIM AND GIVEN NDNAL BAIL TO APPEAR BEFORE BANKSTOWN LOL COURT ON 11 APRIL.A 41-YEAR-OLD MAN WAS CHARGED WH MON ASSLT AND GIVEN AN ATTENDANCE NOTICE TO APPEAR BEFORE BANKSTOWN LOL COURT ON 30 MAY.SHARE4 M READPUBLISHED 22 MARCH 2023 8:29AMUPDATED 22 MARCH 2023 10:12AMSOURCE: AAPAVAILABLE OTHER LANGUAGTAGSSYDNEYSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU

⁣⁣This is the sry, betiful mystery of the Bible and Homosexualy6 Aug 2021Rev. Lbians and gay men face discrimatn bee of societal attus. Unfortunately, the attus are often tght by church and, sadly, the Bible is equently ed as a weapon to “bash” lbians and gays.

Yet the vers have been ed to jtify hatred, nmnatn and excln of God’s lbian and gay children. Christian and gay: A relig lear reflects15 July 2021MSNBC Digal DocumentariFearls: Reverend Troy Perry found the Metropolan Communy Church 1968 as an outreach to the unrserved gay muny. Perry looks back at his personal evolutn om a heterosexually-married, closeted gay man the nservative south to a spirual and civil rights lear of the LGBT muny Los Angel and what is MCC all about and what do MCC Sydney believe?

BEHD THE SPL OF THE ANGLIN CHURCH ATRALIA OVER GAY MARRIAGE

“We uld go to a gay-iendly church, and there’s a number of them, and we n take munn. Footage showed police officers shieldg LGBTIQ+ activists om an angry mob of mostly men, who shouted homophobic slurs and also scribed the protters as "dogs".

Inpennt Sydney MP Alex Greenwich - who is the only openly gay member of the lower hoe - mented that "words and hate n lead to vlence". So, I’ve bee a Christian, aga, and I’m stgglg to know what church would actually accept me for beg gay and trans.

GAY MARRIED UPLE TOLD TO SEPARATE, BE CELIBATE TO KEEP JOB CHURCH

I know the church I grew up would reject me for beg trans and gay (I’ve already been through all those emotns) but they’re Nowra so I uldn’t go there even if they didn’t. Police have e for heated cricism om outraged Catholics for mockg the church by vortg wh a men drsed as a nuns at a Mardi Gras Police sparked the cricism by postg a photo of a group of officers standg wh the fake nunsat the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Fair Day last Sunday to s official Instagram page.

NSW Police were blasted by the Catholic church for makg a 'mockery' of their relign by postg a photo of officers wh a fake nun The Catholic church spokman said was 'upsettg' that people volved did not extend the same 'rpect' to the church that s lear, Pope Francis, offered to gay and lbian people 'It's sad to see an event created more than forty years ago to promote equaly and end discrimatn now evolve to somethg that celebrat and promot the mockery of others, ' a spokman for the archdce told Daily Mail Atralia. 'Our Church, as articulated by Pope Francis, believ that gay and lbian people should never be margalised, but rpected and weled at all tim.

I’M GAY, MARRIED, AND NOT LEAVG MY CHURCH

'If police paid such disrpect to Islam, Judaism or Hduism like this I would sack them, ' he told the Daily police have publicly backed the gay, lbian, trans and tersex muny recent years - after a poor relatnship wh the queer muny the 1970s and 1980s. 'The 'GLLO' program - Gay and Lbian Liaison Officers - have served the LGBTIQ muni for almost 30 years. Members of the Mardi Gras bated banng police and prison officer floats om the famo pri para last proposal was put forward by Pri Prott, an activist group seekg to steer the world-famo event back to s radil said police's prence the march mak Indigeno people feel unsafe to participate, light of the high rat of rceratn and over-policg that are the foc of the Black Liv Matter nuns have been a fixture of Mardi Gras events for 41 years wh the formatn of a satiril orr lled the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence that even has s own missn reads 'we are an orr of gay male nuns dited to the promulgatn of universal joy and the expiatn of stigmatic guilt'.

GAY SYDNEY · CY GUI

“This is an important issue for every Atralian who has gay children or are gay themselv, ” Mr Sanrs said. “It’s how the church speaks om the pulp about people such as myself, ” he Morrison ernment has released two drafts of the Relig Discrimatn Bill, which aims to stop discrimatn based on relig belief or activy but there are ncerns to what extent relig groups will be able to hire and fire staff based on their valu, cludg gay employe. Image source, Tham Valley PoliceImage ptn, Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Mart were both sgle and vulnerableBoth Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Mart were relig, sgle and whout Farquhar retired as Stowe School's head of English 2004 and was ved to be a gut lecturer at the Universy of Buckgham, where he met stunt the urt se, the jury heard how Mr Farquhar had a wi circle of iends but he was lonely and, as a gay man, he stggled wh his sexualy, regardg as patible wh his Anglin fah.

| Getty ImagThe four ndidat for bishop of an Epispal Church dce that recently garnered headl for refg to bls same-sex marriag have dited that they will allow the Epispal Dce of Albany has been whout a bishop sce the rignatn 2021 of William Love, who had issued an open letter 2020 refg to enforce a nomatnal le requirg all dc to allow for the blsg of gay marriag. ”Ward wrote that he believ the issue of gay marriage is “tly plited” and that he rpects all sis on the issue, addg that if elected bishop, “honorg theologil diversy would be a prry.

”“Seekg rolutn and a mutual path forward would volve a basic mment to rpectg the digny of every person, affordg genero pastoral attentn to every voice, and seekg Holy mon ground on nonilly sound footg, ” Ward July 2018, the Epispal Church General Conventn passed Rolutn B012, which required all dc to bls same-sex unns, removg earlier provisns that allowed several dc to prohib such measur, due to them beg nflict wh the biblil standard of B012 allowed clergy to refe to perform gay weddgs, required bishops who oppose them to let another bishop provi pastoral support for the same-sex uple and to provi a prit to perform the November 2018, Albany Bishop Love released an open letter statg that he refed to enforce the rolutn his dce. Extract In September 1992 a perdil published by a nservative evangelil mp mistry led by an Anglin clergyman based at the Universy of New South Wal Sydney published an edorial unr the headg ‘Is homosexualy next? Is homosexualy next?

A GAY MAN'S STORY SNAPSHOTS

AngloCatholicism and homosexualy’, Victorian Studi, 25 (1982), pp. Thompson, Denise, Flaws the Social Fabric: Homosexuals and Society Sydney (Sydney, 1985)Google Scholar, ch, 5;.

Hilliard, David, ‘Atralian Anglins and homosexualy: a tale of two ci’, St Mark’s Review (Canberra), no. 3 on the lbian and gay movements. Church of England, Dce of Sydney, Ethics and Social Qutns Commtee, Report on Homosexualy (Sydney, 1973).

Bee we are those who have found ep bety the blsg of gay and lbian marriag and we long for others to share this his addrs, ’s hard to discern whether he is otg dividuals or those dc that have ma mov to bls same-sex marriage, but ultimately there is no difference – if an entire regn is blacklisted for pursug somethg we hold ar, what msage do that send me? I had bought to the false narrative of “gay vers God.

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

Gay, married to a man, unashamedly Christian, and unapologetilly Anglin.

The cy is unique s range of environments and districts, om the sun-soaked beach of Bondi to the skyle of sheer glass skyscrapers that is the Downtown area, no two plac this btlg cy are the one of the world’s biggt and most famo pri celebratns, a plethora of gay venu and a liberal atmosphere, Sydney is an absolutely unmissable statn for any gay traveler.