Wh an timated 2.3 ln members, the Epispal Church is open and welg of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny.
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
In 1977, Spong beme one of the first Amerin bishops to orda a woman to the clergy. In 1989, he was the first to orda an openly gay man. Spong died Sept. 12. Origally broadst 1996. * episcopal gay priests *
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.
OPENLY GAY EPISPAL PRIT RECEIV MORE NODS
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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.
EPISPAL CHURCH ORDAS 2ND OPENLY GAY BISHOP
Bishop is First Openly Gay Woman to be Consecrated Bishop, Only 2nd Female Dce of Los Angel * episcopal gay priests *
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).
ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED
(RNS) — Spong ma headl when he ordaed the first openly gay male prit the Epispal Church. * episcopal gay priests *
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.
GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE
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.
‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
“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.
CHIGO THEDRAL HOSTS GAY ‘MEET-UP’ GROUP LED BY ‘GAY’ PRIT-MASSR
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.