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Contents:

• ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY NMNS GAY MARRIAGE, BUT ANGLIN BISHOPS REMA DIVID
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND CONMNS GAY CLERICS FOR OUTG PRITS AS BISHOPS PREP FOR LGBT DEBATE
• THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP IS A HUGE STEP FORWARD – BUT ’S NOT ENOUGH
• RAYMOND J. SOUZA: BISHOP REBELLN OVER GAY MARRIAGE ULD DOOM ANGLIN CHURCH
• FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL BISHOP TO DIVORCE HBAND
• AIN ANGLIN CHURCH'S STANCE ON GAY RIGHTS IS SERLY AT ODDS WH ARCHBISHOP JT WELBY'S LEARSHIP
• AIN ANGLINS NOUNCE CHURCH OF ENGLAND GAY BISHOP LE
• GAY BISHOP’S NSECRATN DIVIS ANGLINS
• THE ANGLIN CHURCH’S ‘KICK THE GUTS’ TO GAY PARISHNERS
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND CONMNS GAY CLERICS FOR OUTG PRITS AS BISHOPS PREP FOR LGBT DEBATE

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY NMNS GAY MARRIAGE, BUT ANGLIN BISHOPS REMA DIVID

On 7 June 2003 Gene Robson be the first openly gay bishop the Epispal church of the US; on 3 Augt 2022 Archbishop Jt Welby “affirms validy” of the 1998 Lambeth claratn that homosexual relatnships are patible wh scripture (Jt Welby ‘affirms validy’ of 1998 gay sex is s claratn, 2 Augt). Ian GordonFolktone, Kent The affirmatn that gay sex is a s will e much nsternatn, cludg among many Anglins who regnise the sufferg that this regrsive posn has flicted on gay people. William BartramHampton, Greater London I spect that a lot of people will share my disgt at the affirmatn that gay sex is a s.

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

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. The head of the Anglin Communn attempted to rerce the church's stance agast homosexual marriage this week, but the move was squashed by outcry om var ntroversy me to a head durg the ongog 2022 Lambeth Conference — a rare meetg of Anglin Communn bishops om around the world. The Global South Fellowship of Anglin Church (GSFA) — self-scribed as "a worldwi fellowship of orthodox Anglin Provc and Dc wh the Anglin Communn" — me to the nference wh the gay marriage ban firmly on their agenda.

A ll was schled for the nference — a sort of vote amongst the bishops to endorse or abandon proposed belief next day — after word got out about the ph for a formal rejectn of homosexual marriage — the nference was threatened wh bishops reportedly stayed seated and did not receive the Eucharist durg the mass. (Photo by Gareth Fuller/PA Imag via Getty Imag) Anglinism has been acturg for s over gay relatnships, women's ordatn and other issu. Those rifts blew wi open 2003 when the New York-based Epispal Church nsecrated the first openly gay bishop, Gene Robson, New Hampshire.

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

Epispal legislative body, or General Conventn, voted to thorize gay marriag their HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPIn 2009, Anglin natnal lears Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda and other church provc helped create the Anglin Church North Ameri, as a theologilly nservative alternative to the U.

RAYMOND J. SOUZA: BISHOP REBELLN OVER GAY MARRIAGE ULD DOOM ANGLIN CHURCH

Pl even scrib reemed people, who were once idolaters, adulterers, homosexuals, and so forth, as spirually “chaste virgs” through the cleansg blood of Christ (2 Corthians 11:1-2).

FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL BISHOP TO DIVORCE HBAND

He wr, “…homosexualy has bee an inty, not jt a s… We, as the church, mt strive to treat those who stggle wh this s wh more re, and those the LGBT muny wh more Christlike love.

Some argue for the term of “gay Christian.

Among those who advote for the term gay Christian ( should be noted that there is diversy of theologil opn here), some argue that the word “gay” is a more ntemporary synonym for same-sex attracted. Others pos that “gay” is ed as a scriptor rather than a fer.

AIN ANGLIN CHURCH'S STANCE ON GAY RIGHTS IS SERLY AT ODDS WH ARCHBISHOP JT WELBY'S LEARSHIP

Gog eper, some employ a very nuanced argument that while gay lt is sful, gay attractn self need not be ltful but n reprent an athetic appreciatn of bety and a sire for chaste iendship.

AIN ANGLINS NOUNCE CHURCH OF ENGLAND GAY BISHOP LE

Many wh this muny g the term gay Christian argue that the phrase “same-sex attractn” is unknown among the larger LGBT muny and, therefore, lacks need missn engagement. Conversely, those who employ the language of same-sex attractn are ncerned that g the adjective “gay” to modify the noun “Christian, ” “obscur the disorred nature of same-sex sire. They also argue that when someone the general culture intifi themselv as gay, there is an implic acceptance of same-sex behavr.

GAY BISHOP’S NSECRATN DIVIS ANGLINS

They would suggt that most non-Christians would therefore assume that people who label themselv as gay Christians would rrpondgly accept same-sex sexual exprsn, cludg same-sex marriage.

THE ANGLIN CHURCH’S ‘KICK THE GUTS’ TO GAY PARISHNERS

We pot out three problems we see biblilly and historilly wh g such signatns as “gay Christian, ” and, for that matter, “same-sex attracted believer. One, there is the nfn ed by lack of fn and mon unrstandg of signatns such as “gay Christian, ” and “same-sex attracted believer.

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

The addnal plitn wh the phras is that the LGBT muny at large do not distguish livg the liftyle of a gay person om someone only havg same-sex attractn. Certa Christian groups seem to be the only on attemptg to nuance gay behavr om same-sex attractn.

Dignatns such as “gay Christian, ” or “same-sex attracted Christian” are simply not what the spir of the New Ttament offers as a way of fg a Christian or his/her muny.