Rememberg Frank Griswold, an Epispal bishop who champned gay rights : NPR

Contents:

• REMEMBERG FRANK GRISWOLD, AN EPISPAL BISHOP WHO CHAMPNED GAY RIGHTS
• EPISPAL CHURCH ORDAS 2ND OPENLY GAY BISHOP
• GAY US BISHOP GENE ROBSON TO DIVORCE HBAND
• FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL BISHOP TO DIVORCE HBAND
• GAY BISHOP, WHOSE NOMATN SPL CHURCH YEARS AGO, VISS FALLS CHURCH
• GENE ROBSON, 1ST GAY BISHOP US, REMEMBERS TUTU’S GENEROSY
• FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL BISHOP, WHOSE ELECTN CSED A STIR, TO DIVORCE
• ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED

REMEMBERG FRANK GRISWOLD, AN EPISPAL BISHOP WHO CHAMPNED GAY RIGHTS

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST)GROSS: How has the ntroversy over gay bishops affected your relatnship wh other bishops?

Sortg and siftg all that and tryg to fd what is God's larger purpose is certaly where I've put my bt energi over the When Bishop Robson was ordaed and beme the first openly gay Epispal bishop, to the ordatn ceremony, you wore a flak jacket, as, I believe, did he. You were ordaed a gay man shortly after the Epispal Church said that was OK to orda non-celibate homosexuals.

EPISPAL CHURCH ORDAS 2ND OPENLY GAY BISHOP

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.

GAY US BISHOP GENE ROBSON TO DIVORCE HBAND

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? Robert Williams tght me far more about the meang of homosexual persons and the value that they have to brg to the life of the church than he ever hurt me.

FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL BISHOP TO DIVORCE HBAND

And he was clearly HIV posive and head toward his soon to be that Robert, for me, was symbolic of the fact that gay and lbian people have been so abed by the church.

And Robert opened the door to enormo numbers of gay and lbian people to fd their way back to the church that will be an acceptg muny. 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.

GAY BISHOP, WHOSE NOMATN SPL CHURCH YEARS AGO, VISS FALLS CHURCH

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 Epispal Church has nsecrated a woman as s send openly gay bishop, seven years after stirrg lgerg ntroversy by ordag a man to a siar Rev.

GENE ROBSON, 1ST GAY BISHOP US, REMEMBERS TUTU’S GENEROSY

It also mak her one of the first two female bishops the Dce of Los Angel' 114-year Epispal Church, which is the Anglin body the Uned Stat, ed turmoil the church 2003 by nsecratg the first openly gay bishop, V. Jt before the ceremony began, a man stood, shouted about the need to repent and held up a sign that read "Do not be ceived, homosexuals will not her the kgdom of God. 2004, Anglin lears asked the Epispal Church for a moratorium on electg another gay bishop while they tried to prevent a permanent break the the requt was ma, some Epispal gay prits have been nomated for bishop, but none was elected before Glasspool.

FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL BISHOP, WHOSE ELECTN CSED A STIR, TO DIVORCE

Glasspool, 56, an adviser, or non, for eight years to the Dce of Maryland's bishop, said an say on the Los Angel dce Web se that she had an "tense stggle" while llege wh her sexualy and the ll to bee a did not speak Saturday, but told a gatherg of media Friday that the church's willgns to orda women and gays shows a mment that go beyond mere clive language.

Though Smh personally oppos same-sex marriage, he agreed unr the dce’s plan to partner wh Bishop Carol Gallagher, then servg as a regnal non the Dce of Massachetts, to provi “supplemental epispal pastoral support” for Albany clergy who wished to celebrate weddgs for gay and lbian upl. Many of the biblil passag “that are often ed to nmn homosexualy are certaly not about morn same-sex marriage and are very likely more terted nmng sexually exploative enunters than the affectn shared by two adults of the same genr, ” Williamson wrote. Image source, APImage ptn, Gene Robson (R) said he would be "forever grateful" to Mark Andrew (L)Gene Robson, the first openly gay bishop the US Epispal Church, has announced he is divorcg his partner of 25 years.

In his letter, Bishop Robson, who retired 2012, said was "a small fort" to know that gay and lbian upl "are subject to the same plitns and hardships that afflict marriag between heterosexual upl". NEW YORK — The first openly gay Epispal bishop, who beme a symbol for gay rights far beyond the church while eply dividg the world's Anglins, plans to divorce his Gene Robson announced the end of his marriage to Mark Andrew an email sent to the Dce of New Hampshire, where he served for ne years before retirg 2012.

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

Robson was barred 2008 by then-Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams om the Lambeth Conference, the once-a- global meetg of all Anglin bishops, as Williams stggled to fd a way to keep Anglins Robson was also wily celebrated as a pneer for gay rights, beme an advote for gay marriage and was the subject of several books and a documentary about Christiany, the Bible and same-sex livered the benedictn at the openg 2009 gural event for Print Barack Obama and, after retirement, beme a senr fellow at the Center for Amerin Progrs, a Democratic thk tank wh close ti to the Whe Hoe.

The two men were joed a 2008 civil unn New Hampshire, and beme a legal marriage when the state regnized gay marriage 2010.

Epispal Church Pridg Bishop Kathare Jefferts Schori has issued the followg statement on LGBT (Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr) rights:The Epispal Church has been clear about our expectatn that every member of the LGBT muny is entled to the same rpect and digny as any other member of the human fay. | Getty ImagThe four ndidat for bishop of an Epispal Church dce that recently garnered headl for refg to bls same-sex marriag have dited that they will allow the Epispal Dce of Albany has been whout a bishop sce the rignatn 2021 of William Love, who had issued an open letter 2020 refg to enforce a nomatnal le requirg all dc to allow for the blsg of gay marriag.