Openly Gay Epispal Prit Receiv More Nods | Church & Mistri News

Contents:

• EPISPAL SODOMY: GAY SEMARIAN PIPELE
• OPENLY GAY EPISPAL PRIT RECEIV MORE NODS
• EPISPAL CHURCH ORDAS 2ND OPENLY GAY BISHOP
• ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED
• GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE
• ‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
• CHIGO THEDRAL HOSTS GAY ‘MEET-UP’ GROUP LED BY ‘GAY’ PRIT-MASSR

EPISPAL SODOMY: GAY SEMARIAN PIPELE

And this me after I had wrten a book lled "Livg In S" on the whole gay issue as well as some other patterns human sexual life that I thk we need to look at and reasss om a different perspective than the tradnal one. And he began to work among the people, most of whom are eply alienated om the church bee the only msage they've ever heard om the church is that God hat homosexual people and that they ought to eher be nverted to beg heterosexuals or be thrown out of the church or even executed, as the Book of Levic You end up - We wound up ordag him to the prithood 1989 December. And he blew his ol and began to say thgs that ma his mistry and the Dce of Newark - we were right far out on a le to support him - almost impossible to said that monogamy was a heterosexual practice and should never be imposed upon homosexual people.

Well, that jt blew headl across the, he had been ordaed to open a mistry to gay and lbian people the Dce of Newark so that we uld hold up to the gay and lbian populatn the mol of a fahful, mted lifetime partnership. And then he began to say that he did not thk fahfulns to a partner was a virtue that homosexual people ought to be held to, and that he began to prcribe sexual activy sort of random or promiscuo.

And there is no way that I, as a bishop or our dce, was prepared to support promiscuo sexual activy on anybody's part, whether 's homosexual or What was like for you to go out on a limb to orda a gay prit and then have to ask for his rignatn? And we today have a signifint number of gay and lbian prits servg the Dce of Newark wh credible most recent one that's been volved the ntroversy was Barry Stopful (ph), who was ordaed prit by me, but ordaed an by Bishop Reer (ph). And then we looked at the gay and lbian populatn that unr the laws of the stat of the Uned Stat of Ameri and every untry of the world are not given the privilege of a legal relatnship.

OPENLY GAY EPISPAL PRIT RECEIV MORE NODS

In 1976, both the Hoe of Deputi and Hoe of Bishops voted for a fully clive Epispal Church, statg, “homosexual persons are children of God who have a full and equal claim wh all other persons upon the love, acceptance, and pastoral ncern and re of the church.

The next General Conventn, 1976, adopted rolutns statg that “homosexual persons are children of God who have a full and equal claim wh all other persons upon the love, acceptance, and pastoral ncern and re of the Church” (1976-A069), and that they “are entled to equal protectn of the laws wh all other cizens” (1976-A071).

In 2010, his book “Washed and Wag: Reflectns on Christian Fahfulns and Homosexualy, ” articulated an unmon, nuanced approach to Christian sexualy that diverged om the much lour voic on the right and left.

EPISPAL CHURCH ORDAS 2ND OPENLY GAY BISHOP

The view that he helped popularize – acceptg gay orientatns as neher herently sful nor appropriate for sex and marriage – spawned a mostly onle movement among LGBTQ+ Christians that me to be lled Si B.

And so later when I was really wrtlg both personally as well as theologilly, I got to some of the nversatns about what is an appropriate Christian way to be gay, to live out one’s sexualy.

A uple of wrers were really important for me – one was Henri Nouwen, and he wasn’t out durg his lifetime, but subsequently, bgraphers unearthed the fact that he had lived a, by all acunts, celibate gay life, and I eply ronated wh a lot of his wrg on spirualy and psychology and lonels particular. “That was a really strikg moment to me as a Lato gay man, ” said Miguel Esbar, executive director of the Epispal Divy School at Unn Theologil Semary, durg a Hoe of Deputi discsn on May 18 tled “A Full and Equal Claim: LGBTQ+ Epispalians Discs the Path Forward. “There were some church I applied to that I uldn’t get as a gay person, and there were others that I applied to that I uldn’t get as a Black person, ” Grav told ENS, scribg his earlier job search.

ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED

The rolutn “nfs the Church’s ntued heterosexism, homophobia, biphobia and transphobia, and the ongog harmful impact of anti-LGBTQ+ Christian proclamatn, preachg, pastoral re, and theology” and exprs a renewed mment to ensurg that LGBTQ people experience a “full and equal claim” to church life. Church Milant has learned that a clanste pipele for homosexual semarians was tablished the 1990s and to the early 2000s where active gay men om Colombia, South Ameri were beg secretly funneled to U. John Lavers: "The vtigatn, when we began April/May of 2012, revealed that there was a wi work of semarians which were volved abnormal behavr and homosexual activy spreadg across a number of dc the eastern part of the Uned Stat.

GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE

Semarians who had actually been expelled om var Colombian semari for homosexual activy were quietly told that they should fd their way to the Amerin "discernment" hoe if they wanted a ticket to gay-iendly semari the Uned State. Approximately three or four years later, the archdce of Newark shut down the Columbian hoe when the homosexual activy volvg Amerin prits and the young Columbians was disvered, as this would e great embarrassment to the archdce if ever beme public.

The archbishop of Hartford at the time was Henry Mansell, who figur promently the Pennsylvania grand jury report for his time as bishop of Buffalo, when he shipped at least one known homosexual predator prit to Pennsylvania. Church Milant spoke exclively to multiple semarians who were at Buffalo's Christ the Kg Semary at the time, and two of them told that homosexualy at the semary unr Mansell and Gatto was rampant, and that some of the Colombians were actually parceled out to parish assignments wh active homosexual pastors, who lavished expensive gifts, cludg rs, on the young, gay Colombians exchange for sex. Former semarians tell Church Milant that the volvement of Mansell and Serratelli movg around gay semarians beme well known by Church officials, as both the bishops had large numbers of semarians wh their dc, and they need to stter them around different semari so as not to draw too much attentn to their exceptnally high number when the Church the Uned Stat was experiencg a massive drop the numbers of semarians.

In 2012, this issue of the South Amerin gay pipele me to a head when var plats of homosexual activy and sexual abe beme known at Holy Apostl Semary Cromwell, Connecticut, the dce of Norwich, after some there reported that a large number of Colombian and U.

‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT

Church Milant has received rmatn om semarians about what went on at the semary and how the lol clergy om the archdce of Hartford, as well as other prits om other dc, were volved homosexual activy as well as sexually abg young men studyg for the prithood. And absolutely worth notg — very important — all this was wh jt the last few years, not s and s ago, as many guilty prelat keep tryg to sist orr to flect attentn om the massive, massive crisis of homosexualy among clergy and bishops lyg to ver up. Once Mansell arrived Hartford 2003, he stepped up his game, so to speak, palizg on what had bee the gay Colombian pipele for Newark, which homosexual predator Theodore McCarrick had left as archbishop jt three years earlier.

And yet, the face of a growg mounta of evince that this is a natnwi homosexualy the clergy epimic, bishop after bishop and rdal after rdal ntue to further enrage the fahful every day by nyg the obv — om Newark Cdl. The vast majory of bishops the Uned Stat who have issued statements have all ftly si-stepped and ignored the central issue, what is at the heart of this: the majory prence of homosexual men the prithood, stealg the money om the fahful, stroyg souls and rottg lns of mds.

CHIGO THEDRAL HOSTS GAY ‘MEET-UP’ GROUP LED BY ‘GAY’ PRIT-MASSR

Robert Baker of Birmgham, Alabama are so far the only two on rerd llg a spa a spa and admtg what a huge number of Catholic lay already know: that this is a problem of homosexualy wh the ranks of bishops and prits. Wayne of the Church of the Epiphany New York Cy preach that homosexuals “mt be accepted fully to the fellowship of the church” while they also mt seek unselg or psychologil treatment.

1967: November Durg a symposium on homosexualy sponsored by the Epispal Dc of New York, Connecticut, Long Island, and Newark, nety Epispalian prits agree that the church should classify homosexualy as “morally ntral” and “ some s…a good thg. They overwhelmgly adopt a theologil statement “that nmns homosexualy as un-Biblil, bars ordatn of homosexuals to the prithood, and forbids prits of the church om blsg homosexual marriag.