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Contents:
- FIRST OPENLY GAY MISTER TO BE ORDAED BY PRBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) TOMORROW
- OVER 6,000 UNED METHODIST NGREGATNS VOTED TO LEAVE THE NOMATN AS BE MORE FLEXIBLE WH GAY MARRIAGE AND LGBTQ+ MISTERS
- A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
- TOP 5 ANTI-GAY MISTERS ACCED OF BEG HOMOSEXUAL
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- DEFYG CHURCH BAN, DOZENS OF METHODIST CLERGY E OUT AS GAY AND LBIAN
- LGBTQ UNED METHODIST LEARS GUTTED BY CHURCH'S ANTI-GAY CISN
- CATEGORY: GAY MISTERS
- 3 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMATNS THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
FIRST OPENLY GAY MISTER TO BE ORDAED BY PRBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) TOMORROW
The Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force applds the historic ordatn of Stt Anrson set for tomorrow Madison, Wis. He will bee the first * gay ministers *
The Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force applds the historic ordatn of Stt Anrson set for tomorrow Madison, Wis. He will bee the first openly gay mister ordaed by the Prbyterian Church (USA) sce the nomatn amend s nstutn this year to elimate official barriers to the ordatn of people based on their sexual orientatn.
OVER 6,000 UNED METHODIST NGREGATNS VOTED TO LEAVE THE NOMATN AS BE MORE FLEXIBLE WH GAY MARRIAGE AND LGBTQ+ MISTERS
David Gura speaks wh Rev. Kimberly Stt about last week's meetg of the Uned Methodist Church's Council of Bishops and s impedg vote on whether to orda gay pastors. * gay ministers *
“So much of my work wh the Shower of Stol Project volv holdg my hands every day symbols of loss — loss of mistry, loss of votn, loss of llg, ” says David Lohman, fah work ordator at the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force.
But before leavg the church, she wanted to do somethg symbolic to show that she was only one of untls lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people servg the church silence bee the st of livg thentic, open liv was too high.
A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
Unfundamentalist Christians founr John Shore recently shared a letter om a gay Christian who is stgglg wh his sexualy and fah. Among the many enuragg ments on that post was one om a gay pastor who betifully explaed his unrstandg of the Bible, Christiany, and sexualy. * gay ministers *
Kimberly Stt about last week's meetg of the Uned Methodist Church's Council of Bishops and s impedg vote on whether to orda gay pastors.
The Uned Methodist nomatn has over 6 ln members the Uned Stat, and they're divid over the qutn of ordag gay misters. She left the church for seven years and me back to be s first Black, female, openly gay pastor, and she jos now om Phoenix. KIMBERLY SCOTT: Thank you, So this bate over ordag gay clergy has been gog on for a while, sce the late '60s.
TOP 5 ANTI-GAY MISTERS ACCED OF BEG HOMOSEXUAL
Bishop Eddie Long is not the first preacher who ranted agast homosexualy, who turn was acced of beg gay. There have been several others, all who have been acced of rryg out homosexual affairs the bedroom, while ragg agast gays the pulp. Here are 5 misters who preached agast homosexualy public yet were acced of dulgg homosexualy private. * gay ministers *
And then the other part was always send-gusg myself - whether or not I was supposed to be open about my sexual orientatn, whether or not I was supposed to play the game of don't ask, don't Jt so that I'm clear, is the church's official stance on homosexualy today ambiguo or is pretty clearly fed and you'd like to see changed? It clearly stat that you nnot be an openly-practicg homosexual and be ordaed the Uned Methodist Church.
It also stat that although all human begs are of sacred worth, homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachg.
S., church have gone beyond what the Book of Disciple says to make the church open and accsible to gay and lbian clergy like Do you know other pastors who aren't as open as you or haven't been able to be as open as you - have ma this choice to keep this important si of their liv quiet or secret om their ngregatns?
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
Open and Affirmg is the way many the Uned Church of Christ (UCC) clare wele and cln of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT), * gay ministers *
The bate around homosexualy is not somethg that most Ain and third-world untri are - really re about. One-fifth of Uned Methodist ngregatns the Uned Stat have received permissn to leave the nomatn over disagreements over same-sex marriage and gay preachers. This year alone, 4, 172 ngregatns left, acrdg to an unofficial tally by Uned Methodist News the church forbids the marriage or ordatn of “self-avowed, practicg homosexuals, ” many church and nferenc fy those bans.
DEFYG CHURCH BAN, DOZENS OF METHODIST CLERGY E OUT AS GAY AND LBIAN
As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world. * gay ministers *
Conservativ May 2022 officially lnched a new Global Methodist Church, where they plan to mata and enforce bans on thgs that clu gay misters and same-sex weddgs. Recent shifts the church2019: A vote by a General Conference was the latt of several recent s that rerced the church’s ban on gay clergy and marriage.
LGBTQ UNED METHODIST LEARS GUTTED BY CHURCH'S ANTI-GAY CISN
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Many wh the nomatn are seekg to reverse bans on the ordatn of gay and lbian misters and officiatns of gay weddgs.
LGBTQ+ rponseWhile some partg church allow LGBTQ+ members, ’s an unacceptable double standard when they let LGBTQ+ people attend their servic but refe to marry them, said Sonja Feist, print of the Topeka chapter of Parents, Fay and Friends of Lbians and told The Capal-Journal she didn't see how a church that bans same-sex marriage n claim to be welg to gay people. Unfundamentalist Christians founr John Shore recently shared a letter om a gay Christian who is stgglg wh his sexualy and fah.
CATEGORY: GAY MISTERS
Dozens of Uned Methodist clergy me out as lbian, gay or bisexual on Monday, fyg their church’s ban on “self-avowed practicg homosexuals” servg mistry. * gay ministers *
Among the many enuragg ments on that post was one om a gay pastor who betifully explaed his unrstandg of the Bible, Christiany, and pastor gracly agreed to let me share his ment as blog post here.
3 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMATNS THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
The Uned Methodist Church recently strengthened s ban on openly gay clergy and same-sex marriag. * gay ministers *
Pl was not sayg that idolatry turns people gay; rather, he was sayg that idolatry led to participatn shameful acts of lt.
As I said before, Romans 1 is not about gay Christian boys or girls, but about idolaters wh darkened unrstandg. Another passage often quoted agast is 1 Corthians 6:9, wrongly translated as “homosexuals.
The Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri, wh approximately 5 ln members, has passed repeated rolutns to wele gay and lbian people sce 1991. * gay ministers *
But Genis 19 no more nmns all homosexualy than Judg 19 nmns all heterosexualy. If I ever meet a fe gay man who is Spirual and lovg and mutually attractive, and if I felt the Lord leadg me to him and him to me, I would feel ee to be his mate. Bishop Eddie Long is not the first preacher who ranted agast homosexualy, who turn was acced of beg gay.
gay misters * gay ministers *
There have been several others, all who have been acced of rryg out homosexual affairs the bedroom, while ragg agast gays the pulp.
Here are 5 misters who preached agast homosexualy public yet were acced of dulgg homosexualy private. Gee Rekers is a baptist mister and one of the Christian Right’s most proment anti-gay activists. He was on the board for the Natnal Associatn for Rearch & Therapy of Homosexualy, which tri to fd ways to “cure” homosexualy and ttified as a state wns favor of Florida’s gay adoptn ban trial.
U_K_ Prime Mister Rishi Sunak has apologized for the treatment of gay veterans by sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U_K_ ary was “an appallg failure of the Brish state.” * gay ministers *
Rekers was ught at an airport wh a gay prostute returng om a flight to Bermuda. Haggard would mpaign agast gay marriage and bash homosexualy Church.
In 2006, a gay male prostute claimed that he had regular sex wh Haggard and also ed wh methamphetam. Haggard would adm to beg gay and havg a relatnship wh a male church member. Eddie Long is another mister who would attack homosexualy public only to be acced of beg gay himself.
Eddie Long would preach agast homosexualy and mistered “homosexual cur” to gays and lbians while cricizg gay people. The SPLC would label Eddie Long as “one of the most vilently homophobic black lears the religly based anti-gay movement. Pl Crouch is the founr, Print and chairman of the anti-gay Try Broadstg Networkg.
Posts about gay misters wrten by Dennis * gay ministers *
Dpe the fact that the Catholic Church views homosexualy as an unnatural s, Geoghan was acced of moltg over 130 young boys.
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. * gay ministers *
Open and Affirmg is the way many the Uned Church of Christ (UCC) clare wele and cln of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT), same genr lovg (SGL) persons to the full life and mistry of the church.
The Council for Christian Social Actn, a precsor body to Jtice andWns Mistri adopted the “Rolutn on Homosexuals and the Law. ” In 1972, the UCC ordaed the first openly gay person to mistry, the Rev. Latvia swore the first openly gay print of a Baltic natn Rkēvičs, who sce 2011 was the untry’s foreign mister, was elected by Parliament May after Print Egils Levs did not seek re-electn.
”Rkēvičs “proudly” announced he is gay on Twter November 2014, though the untry, a former Soviet republic, is not pecially LGBTQ-clive.
The Prbyterian Church (USA) officially regnized gay marriage this week. * gay ministers *
” He said he knew there would be “mega hysteria, ” but he end wh the hashtag “#Proudtobegay. ”He is one of jt a few openly gay heads of state the world. She is thought to be the first openly gay prime mister the was an active unnist her nearly 10 years workg as a flight attendant, acrdg to the Council of Women World Lears, a work of female heads of state.
After the accatn, he said, he was chased down the street by reporters, one of whom yelled, “Yet they say you’re a homosexual!
”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported.