So how many gay bishops are there England? | Gee Conger

Contents:

• THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP IS A HUGE STEP FORWARD – BUT ’S NOT ENOUGH
• SO HOW MANY GAY BISHOPS ARE THERE ENGLAND?
• UNED METHODIST CHURCH BODY ELECTS OPENLY GAY BISHOP VLATN OF S L: 'INMAT NNG THE ASYLUM'
• UNED METHODISTS ELECT ANOTHER GAY BISHOP, SET LIBERAL NEW DIRECTN
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOP REVEALS HE IS A GAY RELATNSHIP
• GAY CLERGY URGE GREATER CLN CHURCH OF ENGLAND
• ENGLAND’S TOP CATHOLIC BISHOP ENDORS GAY CIVIL UNNS
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND CONMNS GAY CLERICS FOR OUTG PRITS AS BISHOPS PREP FOR LGBT DEBATE
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• JT WELBY ACCED OF BOWG TO HOMOPHOBIA AFTER BANNG GAY BISHOP'S HBAND OM CHURCH SUMM
• THE SIX OPENLY PARTNERED/MARRIED GAY/LBIAN BISHOPS ATTENDG LAMBETH 2022

THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP IS A HUGE STEP FORWARD – BUT ’S NOT ENOUGH

Although ’s a huge step forward to see a gay bishop e out, the ongog problem is that only some gay upl are acceptable to the Church of England.

For me, as an openly gay Christian who disagre wh enforced celibacy and believ prits should be able to marry, I fear I’d simply be openg myself up to further damage, discrimatn, and heartache. I worry that we are losg young people not jt om future clergy rol, but om even om stg the pews, due to our slow progrs on matters of g out, Chamberla said: “People know I’m gay, but ’s not the first thg I’d say to anyone. If the church wants to keep s current prits, and attract a new wave of recs, we need urgent progrs so that gay people feel safe wh s walls.

Although Jt Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, recently affirmed the validy of a 1998 claratn that gay sex was a s, there are signs that the C of E may be movg towards allowg clergy to follow their nscience on the issue. Anglin church the US, Stland and Canada have already moved to start nductg same-sex weddgs, while the church Wal has started offerg blsgs to married gay upl. A le a piece published the Daily Beast on gay clergy weddgs for the Church of England illtrat the mers of moratn.

SO HOW MANY GAY BISHOPS ARE THERE ENGLAND?

The tone, foc and edorial voice of the recent story “Meet the Gay Prit Gettg Married” lds the subject of the profile, a Church of England prit who has vowed to marry his gay partner spe beg told such an act vlated church l. But the plea for sympathy and support for the prit his battle wh a harsh and opprsive burecracy, was overshadowed by the article’s ccial claim that almost a third of the Church of England’s bishops are gay.

The tabloids as well as the gay specialty prs picked up this statement and the issue jour beme hypocrisy on high — not the ltle guy fightg the good fight. A clergyman, who did not wish to be named, claimed that at least 13 of the church’s 42 bishops were also gay, although they have not publicly acknowledged . Before I start on the gay bishop claim, let me say a word or two about the nard that England got a new church bee Henry wanted a new wife.

Once aga, the isson this article created, however, has not been over same-sex marriage and the clergy or even Henry VIII, is the claim that a third of the Church of England’s bishops are gay.

UNED METHODIST CHURCH BODY ELECTS OPENLY GAY BISHOP VLATN OF S L: 'INMAT NNG THE ASYLUM'

Changg Attu, a gay advocy group wh the Church of England, has raised this issue over the years. Outed 10 Church of England bishops whom claimed were gay, and monstrators dispted the nsecratn service of one of the 10, the Bishop of Durham, after he refed to e out of the closet.

Do they believe homosexual acts are not sful and feel ee to act upon them so long as they keep quiet about and not publicly ntradict church teachg?

UNED METHODISTS ELECT ANOTHER GAY BISHOP, SET LIBERAL NEW DIRECTN

A regnal body of the Uned Methodist Church (UMC) voted to elect the nomatn's first openly gay Black bishop last week vlatn of s l prohibg the ordatn of "self-avowed practicg homosexuals. Her ordatn was emed valid by the Uned Methodist Judicial Council 2017, but she remas her CHURCH OF ENGLAND OFFICIALS ENDORSE GAY MARRIAGE: ‘RANK HERESY’The UMC, which is the third-largt Prottant nomatn the U. Bishop Karen Oliveto, the UMC's first openly gay bishop, speaks at Iliff School of Theology, on April 26, 2017, Denver, Colorado.

"Several nservative members of the Methodist clergy told Fox News Digal June that far om settlg the issue, however, the 2019 vote was disregard by many liberal lears wh the UMC who cid to rema the nomatn while missng openly gay clergy and officiatg same-sex weddgs Lomperis of the Instute on Relign & Democracy, who has served as a UMC General Conference legate, told The Christian Post that Bridgeforth's promotn exhibs "further direct fiance of the UMC’s official l, which is creasgly beg normalized. ”Showg the new normal, a send openly partnered, gay activist bishop, Cedric Bridgeforth, was elected the Wtern Jurisdictn, and a third me historilly close to beg elected the Northeast, openly breakg longstandg l banng “self-avowed, practicg homosexual” clergy.

But the gay activist bishops’ lavish, six-figure salari are subsidized annually by apportnments taken om Uned Methodist offerg plat across the untry. More bishops have e out support of gay marriage after the Bishop of Oxford beme the most senr Church of England cleric to ll for a break wh Rt Rev Steven Croft said that he wanted to acknowledge the “acute pa and distrs of LGBTQ+ people the life of the Church”, and said that he was sorry his views on same-sex marriage were “slow to change” and had “ed genue hurt, disagreement and pa” his landmark claratn on Thursday night, which broke ranks wh the Church’s current view on this issue, he said that as well as beg able to nduct marriag for their ngregatn, clergy should also be allowed to marry a same-sex partner. The Bishop of Oxford lled for a change non law to allow same-sex marriag and said that gay Christians, cludg clergy, should have the “eedom to marry same-sex partners [and] eedom to be sexually active” wh those beme the first servg senr bishop the Church of England – out of the two Archbishops and 35 servg dcan bishops – to explicly ll for the Church to nduct same-sex ments me as Church of England bishops are currently nsirg whether to remend any chang to the centuri-old doctre that only oppose-sex upl should Febary, the bishops will prent their long-awaed fdgs to the General Synod and their remendatns uld pave the way for an historic vote followg s of divisn.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOP REVEALS HE IS A GAY RELATNSHIP

Followg six years of nsultatn and liberatn, bishops have rejected lls for gay marriag church, and have stead proposed, for the first time, that same sex upl n receive blsgs after beg married a civil ceremony. 'Signifint steps forward'There had been speculatn that the majory of bishops uld endorse plans for same sex marriage after the Bishop of Oxford, the Rt Rev Steven Croft, beme the most senr Church of England cleric to back the proposals, breakg ranks wh the Church’s official he spoke out November, a number of other servg bishops me out support of gay marriage. Acrdg to current non law, no Church of England mister n bls or marry gay upl and the Church said will not change s existg doctre, that Holy Matrimony “is between one man and one woman for life”.

The bishop of Grantham has bee the first Church of England bishop to publicly clare that he is gay and a a move that will be embraced by mpaigners for equaly but is likely to alarm nservativ who fear the church is movg away om tradnal teachgs, Nicholas Chamberla said there had been no secret about his long-term - albe celibate - relatnship wh his a threat by a Sunday newspaper to reveal Chamberla’s sexualy had phed him to speak publicly.

Chamberla said he adhered to church guil, unr which gay clergy mt be celibate and are not permted to marry.

GAY CLERGY URGE GREATER CLN CHURCH OF ENGLAND

For me, and for those who assisted his appotment, the fact that Bishop Nicholas is gay is not, and has never been, a termg factor.

ENGLAND’S TOP CATHOLIC BISHOP ENDORS GAY CIVIL UNNS

Its tradnal belief that marriage is a unn of a man and a woman has e unr prsure om societal change and growg mands wh the church that gay people should be accepted and allowed to marry creasg number of prits have married or plan to marry same-sex partners fiance of the ban on gay clergy week, a group of C of E nservative evangelil parish held a meetg to discs their rponse to what they claimed to be the waterg-down of the thory of the Bible on the issue of sexualy, what was billed as potentially the first step towards a breakaway om the Anglin church. It followed Welby’s recent ments at a Christian ftival, when he said he was “nstantly nsumed wh horror” at the church’s treatment of lbians and gay men.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND CONMNS GAY CLERICS FOR OUTG PRITS AS BISHOPS PREP FOR LGBT DEBATE

Strsg that he did not want to bee known as “the gay bishop”, he said he hoped that the impact of his openns would be “that we n say the bishop of Grantham is gay and is gettg on wh his life and mistry”. ”Rumours about gay bishops have circulated for s, but no servg bishop has ever before gone public about their sexualy. David Hope, the former archbishop of York, said that his sexualy was a "grey area" after beg threatened wh beg "outed"; and former archbishop of Canterbury Gee Carey claimed to have knowgly nsecrated two celibate gay men as bishops the 2003, the London Tim reported that the Right Rev Peter Wheatley, then the bishop of Edmonton, was gay and livg wh his partner.

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.

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

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.

"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. December 1, 2011 () – Acrdg to The Tablet, the Archbishop of Wtmster, England, has publicly exprsed support for homosexual civil unns, a move that appears to put him at odds wh a clear Vatin cree agast supportg such unns nfirmed by Pope John Pl II and then-Cardal Joseph Ratzger (now Pope Benedict) 2003. Acrdg to The Telegraph, Nichols said that he is “very disappoted” wh the ernment’s plans to move the directn of legalizg homosexual “marriage.

The statement is sendg shockwav through Bra’s Catholic Church, which has been reelg recent years om open llaboratn between the hierarchy and the homosexual movement. Wrg for the Catholic Herald, mentator William Oddie noted that the statement not only ntradicts papal teachg on the subject, but also seems to open the door to Catholic endorsement of homosexual adoptns.

JT WELBY ACCED OF BOWG TO HOMOPHOBIA AFTER BANNG GAY BISHOP'S HBAND OM CHURCH SUMM

“Archbishop Nichols says he is favour of gay civil unns: but that legally clus the right to adopt. Notg that the bishops of England opposed homosexual civil unns 2003, Oddie adds, “now we are told, by the chairman of the bishops’ nference, that the English Church supports civil unns between homosexual persons, unns which have been given the legal right to adopt children. Ray Blake, who blogs on Church issu, remarked, “ appears that the 2003 CDF document Legal Regnn of Homosexual Unns only appli to marriage self, not ‘civil partnerships.

The Vatin document, signed by Pope John Pl II and then-Cardal Josef Ratzger (now Pope Benedict XVI), stat: “The Church teach that rpect for homosexual persons nnot lead any way to approval of homosexual behavr or to legal regnn of homosexual unns.

THE SIX OPENLY PARTNERED/MARRIED GAY/LBIAN BISHOPS ATTENDG LAMBETH 2022

“Legal regnn of homosexual unns or placg them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the approval of viant behavr, wh the nsequence of makg a mol prent-day society, but would also obscure basic valu which belong to the mon herance of humany. Nichols’ statement follows a ment he ma on the topic September of 2010 when he claimed an terview wh the BBC that the bishops “did not oppose gay civil partnerships” 2003.