The rebel prit: ‘Gay people the church are not gog to go away’ | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian

Contents:

• I AM A GAY VIR AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IS AN EMBARRASSG MS
• BRA'S ONLY OPENLY MARRIED GAY VIR ELECTED TO CHURCH OF ENGLAND SYNOD
• FIRST MARRIED GAY VIR QUS AS MISTER 'STUTNALLY HOMOPHOBIC' CHURCH OF ENGLAND
• THE REBEL PRIT: ‘GAY PEOPLE THE CHURCH ARE NOT GOG TO GO AWAY’
• GAY VIR 'PHED OUT' OF CHURCH
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND 'HOMOPHOBIC' SAYS GAY MARRIAGE VIR
• GAY VIR PH CHURCH OF ENGLAND TO CELEBRATE TRANSGENR INTY LIKE A BAPTISM; SEX CHANGE SURGERY IS 'ABSOLUTE TRMA' CLERGY MT MARK OCSN
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• MEET THE GAY CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIT OCKED FOR NOT REVEALG THE TAILS OF HIS LOVE LIFE
• DIVORCED GAY VIR, 55, QUS HER PARISH DISGRACE FOR GOOD AMID CLAIMS SHE HAD DNKEN ROWS WH A STRG OF GIRLIENDS
• BISHOP OF GRANTHAM FIRST C OF E BISHOP TO CLARE HE IS GAY RELATNSHIP

I AM A GAY VIR AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IS AN EMBARRASSG MS

Father Krysztof Olaf Charamsa (L), who works for a Vatin office, hugs his partner Edouard durg a prs nference to reveal his homosexualy Rome, Italy, October 3, 2015. This week the Church of England found self a very publicly difficult suatn about sexualy— the end of Augt, Bishop Nicholas Chamberla, the Bishop of Grantham, me out as the first openly gay bishop wh a partner.

BRA'S ONLY OPENLY MARRIED GAY VIR ELECTED TO CHURCH OF ENGLAND SYNOD

We now know that the Archbishop of Canterbury knew about this and ed had them both round for dner; the Bishop of Lln knew, and ed the prs office at Church Hoe knew—'s jt that they uldn't bear to thk that anyone else would weekend has also seen the publishg of an open letter om 14 of the married gay and lbian clergy of the Church of England, and other some married lay people, to our bishops. I had been wh my hband for 15 years before we uld marry, and beg married has ma a real difference—somehow the whole relatnship feels more solidly ground and we rejoice that official posn is that lay people n pretty much do as they please, though the Church ensured that is impossible for gay upl to legally marry a Church of England parish and lol clergy are banned om offerg servic of blsg, such as those given to Prce Charl and Cala after their civil marriage, even if the uple haven't been volved a notor are allowed to enter civil partnerships, aga whout a church service afterwards, and have to promise not to have sex wh each other. Bishop Nic is not a civil partnership but has said that he is celibate and this he is entirely pliant wh the current Church has been an attempt at a blanket stop on marriage for gay and lbian clergy, and those who do are officially discipled, and a ban placed on them ever gettg a new post the Church.

FIRST MARRIED GAY VIR QUS AS MISTER 'STUTNALLY HOMOPHOBIC' CHURCH OF ENGLAND

The Church will not nsir for ordatn anyone who is married to someone of the same sex, no matter how good a prit they might quietly, clergy are gettg married or nvertg their civil partnerships to marriage; gay ordands sexual relatnships are gettg the nod through while appearg to ply wh the selectn procr; and clergy are havg sex their civil partnerships. Prits are offerg servic of blsg and thanksgivg to gay and lbian upl and parish celebratg wh them.

THE REBEL PRIT: ‘GAY PEOPLE THE CHURCH ARE NOT GOG TO GO AWAY’

Bra’s only openly married gay vir has been elected to the Church of England’s General Synod, and will e his posn to “advote for a church that fac up to issu of sexualy a hont and passnate way” Forhew-Ca, the vir of St Mary wh All Souls, Kilburn and St Jam, Wt Hampstead, said he was “pleased but shocked” at his electn the London sectn of the natnwi ballot to the church’s erng body.

GAY VIR 'PHED OUT' OF CHURCH

Another gay vir, Bertrand Olivier of All Hallows by the Tower, the Cy of London, was also elected after what he scribed as a “polarisg” ntt.

“The next five years will be que important as the Church of England ntu to nsir how als wh gay marriage as the rt of the world mov on, ” he this week Jeremy Pemberton, a gay hospal chapla who is awag the oute of an dtrial tribunal agast the church, will fd out if his bid for a synod seat has been succsful.

The church was “guilty of terrible dishonty” on the issue, he well as mpaigng on gay rights wh the church, Forhew-Ca said he also wanted to prs for the re-tablishment of the synod’s thory. Rev Bgo Allison, 36, who is genr-queer, grew up a “strongly relig” Christian hoehold Wt Yorkshire and was raised to believe that beg gay was “sful”.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND 'HOMOPHOBIC' SAYS GAY MARRIAGE VIR

”At that time, Rev Allison had only met two openly gay people and no trans people. Currently, acrdg to non law, no Church of England mister n bls or marry gay upl. Get the ee Morng Headl email for news om our reporters across the worldSign up to our ee Morng Headl emailAn Anglin vir who beme the first Bra to marry his same-sex partner has announced he is qutg as a mister the “stutnally homophobic” Church of Andrew Forhew-Ca, a member of the lg General Synod, is leavg his church north London to move to the Peak District wh hband Stephen, but will not seek another parish as he said he was told he wouldn’t be given one.

GAY VIR PH CHURCH OF ENGLAND TO CELEBRATE TRANSGENR INTY LIKE A BAPTISM; SEX CHANGE SURGERY IS 'ABSOLUTE TRMA' CLERGY MT MARK OCSN

“In the normal n of thgs, I’d be lookg for a parish up north but I n’t have one bee of the stutnal homophobia of the Church of England. “The Church of England is an anisatn which is primarily stutnally homophobic, which has polici and statements which are harmful to LGBTI people, and I’m lookg forward to not beg rponsible to an anisatn which treats gay and lbian people que as badly as do, " he strsed he still had his fah and would rry on gog to church.

“I don’t know any of my gay and lbian iends who tend to stay the Church until the end of their workg liv.

"Most of are supposed to go on until we’re 68, but all of the gay clergy seem to want to take early retirement … I thk ’s wearisome, actually, to be nstantly the foc for other people’s nasts. “The problem li a small sub-sectn of the Church which is profoundly nasty and homophobic and a learship which is stutnally homophobic and ref to accept that is, " he said that while there has undoubtedly been real progrs his three s workg for the Church, there remaed some way to go before te equaly was achieved.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

Although I do thk there will be thanksgivg servic and celebratns for gay marriag, I don’t thk will be full equaly. In 2017, he rigned, publicly nmng the church as “stutnally homophobic”. It was a bold statement, and one he knew would bar him om ever heterosexual prits n marry and have sex, gay clergy members are expected to rema unmarried and celibate.

MEET THE GAY CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIT OCKED FOR NOT REVEALG THE TAILS OF HIS LOVE LIFE

In April, he and a aln of LGBTQ clergy members lnched the Campaign for Equal Marriage the Church of England, which advot for the right of lbian and gay Anglins to marry their lol parish, and mands that gay clergy members who marry should be allowed to exercise their mistry. “Unls the Church of England n be enthiastic s wele of gay and lbian people, and their fai and iends, too, we don’t stand a chance.

DIVORCED GAY VIR, 55, QUS HER PARISH DISGRACE FOR GOOD AMID CLAIMS SHE HAD DNKEN ROWS WH A STRG OF GIRLIENDS

“I never experienced any homophobia about , ” he rells. By Forhew-Ca’s acunt, the broad acceptance he enjoyed wasn’t an aberratn, but ditive of Anglinism at the Rev Andrew Forhew-Ca (ont, third om right) wh fellow openly gay members of the General Synod 2017.

A rurgent nservatism wh the C of E unhappily cid wh more antagonistic forms of gay activism and liberatn after the partial crimalisatn of same-sex timacy 1967. Pri march began the followg , while the onset of the Aids crisis the 80s would force sexualy to the public growg visibily of gay and transgenr people wh society forced the church to fe s posn. In 1991, published the Issu Human Sexualy, a document, which treads a lite le between passn for and acceptance of “homophil” wh the the Lambeth nference of 1998, a global nveng of more than 100 natnal church across the world that tak place about every 10 years, sexualy me up aga.

BISHOP OF GRANTHAM FIRST C OF E BISHOP TO CLARE HE IS GAY RELATNSHIP

10, which passed wh an overwhelmg majory, stated that “persons who experience themselv as havg a homosexual orientatn” are “loved by God” and “full members of the Body of Christ”, but that, nohels, “homosexual practice” is “patible wh Scripture”. For Forhew-Ca, was an abditn of the church’s duty of re to s clergy and gay lay.