David Gura speaks wh Rev. Kimberly Stt about last week's meetg of the Uned Methodist Church's Council of Bishops and s impedg vote on whether to orda gay pastors.
Contents:
- UNED METHODIST CHURCH BODY ELECTS OPENLY GAY BISHOP VLATN OF S L: 'INMAT NNG THE ASYLUM'
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- UNED METHODISTS ELECT ANOTHER GAY BISHOP, SET LIBERAL NEW DIRECTN
- US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
- THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP IS A HUGE STEP FORWARD – BUT ’S NOT ENOUGH
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
- HALF OF PRITS AND BISHOPS ARE GAY
- UNED METHODISTS ELECT MARRIED GAY CLERGYMAN AMONG 13 NEW BISHOPS WHO REPRENT MANY OTHER FIRSTS
- 3 GAY PASTORS AMONG NOME FOR BISHOP
UNED METHODIST CHURCH BODY ELECTS OPENLY GAY BISHOP VLATN OF S L: 'INMAT NNG THE ASYLUM'
The Wtern Jurisdictn of the Uned Methodist Church promoted an openly gay clergyman to the rank of bishop fiance of their l prohibg the ordatn of "practicg homosexuals." * gay bishops in us *
One cint that brgs the issue to md is an Associated Prs release on March 3, 2006 that not that the publisher of a weekly newspaper Cameroon (where homosexualy is illegal) was sentenced to four months jail for publishg the nam of people alleged to be gay or lbian. The bishops and prits who are examg the semari wh a mandate to elimate homosexually oriented ndidat om semari have a rponsibily: In fairns the examers mt reveal their orientatn to those examed.
Catholic sats have monstrated for centuri that homosexual orientatn is not an impediment to service, hols, or love.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * gay bishops in us *
Members of the foreign prs rps Rome talk eely among themselv about the orientatn of Pop: Pi XII (divid opn), John XXIII, heterosexual, Pl VI, homosexual, John Pl II, heterosexual, and Benedict XVI, homosexual. The New Ways Mistry is a gay-posive mistry of advocy, jtice and renciliatn for lbian and gay Catholics, fai and iends.
Sce 1977 they have worked for jtice and on behalf of lbian and gay Catholics and renciliatn wh the larger Christian and civil muni. Likewise, DignyUSA is the Uned Stat’ largt and most progrsive anizatn of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr Catholics.
They make great efforts to unter the dishont, hate-filled, anti-gay rhetoric so prevalent si and outsi the Catholic Church. This is clear s Instctn on the Visatn of Semari where talks about “ep-seated homosexual tennci” and “transnal homosexualy” and s equatn of sexual orientatn wh behavr. Cardal Levada, now head of the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah (formerly the Office of the Inquisn) on Febary 26, 2006 asked homosexually oriented prits to rema closeted.
UNED METHODISTS ELECT ANOTHER GAY BISHOP, SET LIBERAL NEW DIRECTN
Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * gay bishops in us *
This suggtn is a travty and only creas the opportuny and danger for good prits—heterosexual and homosexual—to rry on secret, non-celibate liv. The Roman Catholic Church nnot re-tablish s tegry or s credibily until is clear about the distctn between sexual orientatn and behavr; between homosexualy and pedophilia; and the real meang of celibate practice. I do not believe— fact I emphatilly reject—the Vatin statements that clare that homosexual orientatn is an “objective disorr.
US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
Jacksonville Jaguars ach Kev Maxen, who joed the team last year, me out publicly as gay an terview wh Outsports published on Thursday, beg the first ach a U.S. men’s profsnal league to do so" emprop="scriptn * gay bishops in us *
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.
THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP IS A HUGE STEP FORWARD – BUT ’S NOT ENOUGH
* gay bishops in us *
"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.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.
”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. But to be clear, the specific suatns at hand, we are talkg about viant sexual – almost exclively homosexual – acts by clerics.
We’re also talkg about homosexual proposns and ab agast semarians and young prits by powerful prits, bishops, and rdals. It is time to adm that there is a homosexual subculture wh the hierarchy of the Catholic Church that is wreakg great vastatn the veyard of the Lord.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
The Church’s teachg is clear that the homosexual clatn is not self sful, but is trsilly disorred a way that renrs any man stably afflicted by unf to be a prit. “Clergy who exhibed homosexual behavr were not signifintly more likely to abe mors than those who did not. As generally unrstood now, homosexual behavr is the missn of a sexual act wh someone of the same sex, ntrast to a heterosexual act, or sexual behavr engaged by persons of different sex.
What is not well unrstood is that is possible for a person to participate a same-sex act whout assumg or regnizg an inty as a homosexual. It is therefore possible that, although the victims of prits were most often male, th fg the acts as homosexual, the prit did not at any time regnize his inty as homosexual. What is not clear is whether the open exprsn of sexual inty semari this time perd supports the this that more men were enterg the semary unrstandg themselv as homosexual—rather than beg more likely to reveal themselv as homosexual—than prr s.
HALF OF PRITS AND BISHOPS ARE GAY
Many ethnographic and journalistic reports by observers of Catholic semary life the mid-1970s and 1980s scribe a suatn that clud much more open exprsn of homosexual inty, or what is lled “homosexual liftyle, ” and some report homosexual behavr wh adults as well. But any claim about the al nnectn of the homosexual intifitn of late 1970s and 1980s semarians to the likelihood of creased risk of engagg child sexual abe while mistry would have to take to acunt the fundamental distributn of cince. Soclogist Dean Hoge, after a 2001 survey of dcan and relig prits, reported their rpons to a qutn about the prence of a homosexual subculture the semary they attend.
UNED METHODISTS ELECT MARRIED GAY CLERGYMAN AMONG 13 NEW BISHOPS WHO REPRENT MANY OTHER FIRSTS
In ntrast, 40 percent of the prits aged thirty-six to fifty-five, who would have been semarians the 1980s and 1990s, reported that there was a clear homosexual subculture the semari they had attend. Men who were semarians durg the perd of a reported crease homosexual activy did not go on to abe mors any substantial number.
3 GAY PASTORS AMONG NOME FOR BISHOP
If I’m readg this rrectly — and I wele rrectn if I’m not — the rearchers are assumg that the self-reportg of prits on the number of homosexuals wh semari reflects actual ndns there. The report appears to nclu that the entry of more gays to the semari rrelat wh ls rerd stanc of abe. It is entirely possible that those men who entered to semary the earlier era risted intifyg as gay (even though they were same-sex attracted) bee of social stigma — a stigma that was clg the 1980s.