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Contents:

• EPISPAL CHURCH SPLS OVER GAY EQUALYEPISPAL CHURCH SPLS OVER GAY EQUALY
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• EPISPAL CHURCH WON'T BACK DOWN ON GAY RIGHTS DPE CENSURE
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• MOSW CY HALL BANS GAY LGBT PARA FOR 14TH YEAR A ROW
• MOSW GAY MAP
• ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED

EPISPAL CHURCH SPLS OVER GAY EQUALYEPISPAL CHURCH SPLS OVER GAY EQUALY

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. “That was a really strikg moment to me as a Lato gay man, ” said Miguel Esbar, executive director of the Epispal Divy School at Unn Theologil Semary, durg a Hoe of Deputi discsn on May 18 tled “A Full and Equal Claim: LGBTQ+ Epispalians Discs the Path Forward. “There were some church I applied to that I uldn’t get as a gay person, and there were others that I applied to that I uldn’t get as a Black person, ” Grav told ENS, scribg his earlier job search.

The rolutn “nfs the Church’s ntued heterosexism, homophobia, biphobia and transphobia, and the ongog harmful impact of anti-LGBTQ+ Christian proclamatn, preachg, pastoral re, and theology” and exprs a renewed mment to ensurg that LGBTQ people experience a “full and equal claim” to church life.

| 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. ”“Seekg rolutn and a mutual path forward would volve a basic mment to rpectg the digny of every person, affordg genero pastoral attentn to every voice, and seekg Holy mon ground on nonilly sound footg, ” Ward July 2018, the Epispal Church General Conventn passed Rolutn B012, which required all dc to bls same-sex unns, removg earlier provisns that allowed several dc to prohib such measur, due to them beg nflict wh the biblil standard of B012 allowed clergy to refe to perform gay weddgs, required bishops who oppose them to let another bishop provi pastoral support for the same-sex uple and to provi a prit to perform the November 2018, Albany Bishop Love released an open letter statg that he refed to enforce the rolutn his dce. SocietyFeatureDecember 29, 2008Epispal Church Spls Over Gay EqualyThe Epispal Church’s promotn of an openly gay clergyman has created a ser rift wh the relig muny, threateng the future of the nomatn.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

Rick Warren to give the gural nvotn speech has prompted an outcry om progrsiv and gay activists, all of whom who have nounced Warren’s antigay rhetoric and role the passage of Proposn 8. Followg a requt om the Lambeth Commissn, the Epispalian Church published a 135-page document etled “To Set Our Hope Christ, ” which tailed how the church had e to clu homosexuals as equal members of the ngregatn.

Prentg both a theologil and legislative argument for gay and lbian equaly, the document clus a long list of missn fdgs and refully word rolutns statg repeatedly how the Epispal Church is “not of one md” on matters of sexualy but is mted to “promot[g] the ntu[ed] e of dialogue. ” There’s the 1976 Commissn on Human Affairs assertg that “homosexual persons are children of God, who have a full and equal claim wh all other persons on love, acceptance, and pastoral ncern and re of the Church, ” or the creatn of a morately liberal gui on sexualy the 1980s. Aga, the Epispal learship looked to fd a middle way: while “not givg an opn on the moraly of same-genr relatnships, ” refed to nvict on the grounds that “there is no re doctre prohibg the ordatn of a non-celibate homosexual person livg a fahful and mted sexual relatnship, ” and that “the Anglin tradn has enuraged theologil diversy.

” Unable to nvce nservativ wh the church of the basic equaly between heterosexual and homosexual relatnships, and unwillg to abandon s tradn of pluraly and legislative mocracy, the Epispal Church found self nonted by an irrencilable crisis spe s many efforts to avoid one. The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple.

EPISPAL CHURCH WON'T BACK DOWN ON GAY RIGHTS DPE CENSURE

They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic. “I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om.

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As print, Gay is mted to fosterg a new generatn of lears The Epispal Church and enuragg the church’s work for jtice through the actns of General Conventn and the work of Epispalians throughout the church. Prr to servg as print, Gay served on the Executive Council of The Epispal Church om 2006-2012 and held many elected and appoted learship posns, cludg chairg the General Conventn legislative mte on Stcture, World Missn, Communitns, and Canons. 1967: November Durg a symposium on homosexualy sponsored by the Epispal Dc of New York, Connecticut, Long Island, and Newark, nety Epispalian prits agree that the church should classify homosexualy as “morally ntral” and “ some s…a good thg.

They overwhelmgly adopt a theologil statement “that nmns homosexualy as un-Biblil, bars ordatn of homosexuals to the prithood, and forbids prits of the church om blsg homosexual marriag. December A Commtee for Jtice the Epispal Church is formed of about 40 clergymen and lay people to “put prsure on Epispal bishops and puti on the issue of women and homosexuals as prits.

1979: June A report is submted by a natnal missn remendg that homosexuals be allowed to be ordaed if they are “able and willg to nform their behavr to that which the Church affirms as wholome.

MOSW CY HALL BANS GAY LGBT PARA FOR 14TH YEAR A ROW

The Conventn ultimately pass a rolutn statg that no “practicg homosexual” nor heterosexual person engagg extramaral sex should be ordaed, though homosexuals have “equal claim wh others upon the love, acceptance, and pastoral ncern of the church”. 1982: Undated (Likely June/July) The General Conventn pass a rolutn reaffirmg the actns taken by the 1976 and 1979 Conventns, holdg that “homosexual persons are children of God and are entled to full civil rights. 1984 July Epispal Bishop of New York, a long-time supporter of gay rights, wr an edorial for the New York Tim which he nmns the Salvatn Army and the Roman Catholic Archdce, while praisg the NYC mayor a ntroversy over the employment of homosexuals publicly fund NYC church agenci.

1985: September The General Conventn pass a rolutn urgg each dce to “fd an effective way to foster unrstandg of homosexual persons, to dispel myths and prejudic about homosexualy, [and] to provi pastoral support. 1987: January-December (yearlong ntroversy) In January, John Shelby Spong, the Epispal Bishop of the Newark, New Jersey dce, backed by a report prepared by lol clergy and lay people, seeks approval to regnize and bls “nonmaral relatnships, cludg those between homosexuals. Bishop Spong later claims that his support of homosexuals stems om his work the Civil Rights Movement, argu that the Christian Church’s treatment of homosexuals throughout history is “immoral, ” and says that the church mt “al wh realy.

MOSW GAY MAP

May A manual entled “Sexualy: A Dive Gift, A Sacramental Approach to Human Sexualy and Fay Life, ” which was released September of 1987, draws ntroversy for ndong homosexualy as well as s “failure to nmn” sex outsi of marriage. July The General Conventn pass a rolutn “cr[yg] the crease vlence agast homosexual persons” urgg law enforcement officials “across the land to be sensive to this peril and to prosecute the perpetrators of the acts to the fullt extent of the law.

” The rolutn also lls upon Bishops to “repudiate the misnceptn that the Church enurag such vlence and to unter the public claratns of those who claim that AIDS is the punishment of God upon homosexual persons. 1989 June The Dce of Newark, New Jersey opens a special mistry, entled Oasis Mistry, to brg “unchurched and embtered lbians and gay people” to a church program that accepts their sexual orientatn. April A “tradnalist” group of church wh the Epispal nomatn, the Epispal Synod of Ameri, requt to be rporated to their own provce bee of their opposn to the Church’s “morn posns like ordatn of women and equaly for homosexuals.

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

1994 June A mtee of the Epispal Church bishops releas a draft statement that asks the church to “uphold an ial of lifelong fahful unns for both heterosexual and homosexual upl, and treat gay people wh hospaly rather than hostily. Augt At the General Conventn, the Standg Commissn on Human Affairs nclus that “ironilly this De of Evangelism, we seem tent on keepg out one of the few intifiable groups of people who want to be weled [gays and lbians]. ” Their “wish list” for 1994 clus “dialogue on human sexualy to ntue wh the Church, more lbian and gay members [to] e out of the closet and be regnized as human begs rather than as an issue, members [to] speak out agast ‘gay bashg, ’ and church members [to] fight lol iativ signed to prive gays and lbians of equal civil rights.

Mount, a gay, 85 year old prit Maryland who has been ordaed sce 1935, los his “pritly powers” on Maryland’s Eastern Shore after he blsed two HIV-posive gay men a “marriage-style ceremony. June Jon Holn-Gallucc and Michael Gallucc, a gay uple whose lawsu paved the way for other unmarried upl the state of NJ to adopt children jotly, have their unn blsed an Epispal ceremony on Father’s Day.

Augt At the Lambeth Conference, the once-a- gatherg of about 700 Anglin lears, the world’s bishops vote to endorse a rolutn clarg homosexual activy to be “patible wh Scripture, ” and advise agast the ordatn of homosexuals.