Ash Wednday Abomatn: Glter Ash for “Gay Christians” | Bethany Blankley

Contents:

• 'GLTER ASH' FOR GAY CHRISTIANS ON ASH WEDNDAY
• GAY MOVEMENT’S ‘GLTER ASH WEDNDAY’ SUBVERTS THE MEANG OF LENT, REPENTANCE
• HOMOSEXUALS ADOPT ROMAN CATHOLIC PRACTICE OF ASH WEDNDAY AND TURN GAY
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• ASH WEDNDAY ABOMATN: GLTER ASH FOR “GAY CHRISTIANS”

'GLTER ASH' FOR GAY CHRISTIANS ON ASH WEDNDAY

This Ash Wednday, wh the help of an ecumenil fah-based LGBT advocy group lled Pary, she is startg what she hop will bee an annual tradn for Christians who support gay, lbian and transgenr rights. Wearg glter is about more than celebratn for the gay muny, Edman said.

“We’ve always been a parish that that’s been open and affirmg” of gay and lbian Christians, Coleman said. Marian Edmonds-Allen, Pary’s executive director, and distribute glter ash Manhattan at Stonewall Natnal Monument, se of the 1969 Stonewall rts, which galvanized the early gay rights movement.

GAY MOVEMENT’S ‘GLTER ASH WEDNDAY’ SUBVERTS THE MEANG OF LENT, REPENTANCE

Meyers, spe her rervatns about glter ash, supports the Epispal Church’s efforts to open s doors fully to gays and lbians. “I see people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer as part of God’s wonrfully diverse humany, ” Meyers said. The "Glter Ash Wednday" iative — led part by Pary, a fah-based anizatn based New York that's foced on the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny — aims to be a tradnal symbol of repentance wh a msage of Chigo, Berry Uned Methodist will make glter ash available om 8 a.

HOMOSEXUALS ADOPT ROMAN CATHOLIC PRACTICE OF ASH WEDNDAY AND TURN GAY

"The relig rual livers a msage of hope and acceptance that n ronate wh the LGBTQ muny, which has faced anti-gay rhetoric and church that were not welg, Ksey Wednday is "not jt about ath but also the possibily of hope and rurrectn and new life for , " he said. Gay clergy Ameri will offer ash mixed wh purple glter on Ash Wednday to wele LGBT people to church.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

But Rev Marian Edmonds-Allen says she will among a group of pro-gay clergy offerg a twist to the sombre ceremony to highlight their support of LGBT Christians.

ASH WEDNDAY ABOMATN: GLTER ASH FOR “GAY CHRISTIANS”

Executive director of Pary, an LGBT chary, she says gay people are driven out of church by a 'misplaced belief that God hat queer people'. ) On Ash Wednday queer martyrs rise om the ash as Q Spir rells the thoands who were executed for homosexualy throughout history. The ath penalty for homosexualy ntu at least eight untri, wh the addn of Uganda March 2023.

It begs the season of Lent, a perd of repentance preparatn for Easter, and is an appropriate time to reflect on the ss of the church and state agast queer people, cludg the burng of “sodom” and thoands of executns for homosexualy over the past 800 years.

For the first 1, 000 years of church history, Christiany was relatively tolerant of homoerotic relatnships. Sometim “sodomy” clud not only homosexual acts, but genr transgrsns such as cross-drsg. For s first thoand years, Christiany was fairly tolerant of homosexualy and even honored queer love through paired same-sex sats, “brother-makg” mment ceremoni for male upl, and homoerotic votnal imagery.