Gay uple John Davis and Rob Whalley have bee 'unlikely poster boys'
Contents:
- GAY ANGLIN PRITS FIGHT TO GET CHURCH BLSG OF THEIR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- MARRIED GAY PRITS OM WANGARATTA WILL NOT LEAVE ANGLIN CHURCH
- ‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
- EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS WANGARATTA
- WANGARATTA BISHOP PRAIS GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE
- THE GAY CHURCH
- TWO GAY PRITS GOT MARRIED, BUT NOW THEIR LOVE IS BEG DRAGGED THROUGH THE URTS
- CHURCH BLSG OF GAY MARRIAGE POSTPONED WANGARATTA
GAY ANGLIN PRITS FIGHT TO GET CHURCH BLSG OF THEIR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
A signifint move by the Anglin Church to bls the marriage of two gay prits at a ceremony this week has been postponed due to a legal challenge. * gay priests wangaratta *
Two gay Anglin prits om oppose sis of the world who meet and fall pots:In Augt, the Wangaratta Anglin Dce voted Augt to bls same-sex marriagNow, a schled blsg of the marriage of two prits has been postponed due to a legal challengeThe matter was referred to the Appellate Tribunal — the church's hight eccliastil urtFather John Davis and Father Rob Whalley met two s ago Whalley said was love at first sight.
The vote was nducted by secret ballot and the rult was met by a big round of there were two speakers durg the meetg who spoke agast same-sex blsgs, cludg Corryong and Tallangatta reverend Mch vote: Gay uple to be the first blsed by church after marriageHe said the proposal did not measure up to the Anglin church's standards of scripture, tradn and reason, and has led to the cle of church attendance and s moral thory North Ameri.
"But the views were of the mory, wh many people the synod wearg rabow srfs and badg to clearly state their no longer kept secretJohn Davis and Rob Whalley, as two gay men a lovg relatnship, do not want to be visible the next two weeks, they will be firstly be married a civil ceremony then blsed by Wangaratta Bishop John Park - their unn accepted by the Anglin church that means so much to both of them as prits. "They met the late 1990s when Father Davis vised Father Whalley's home untry of the US and they fell cisn to speak out on the issu of blsgs was nsired, but Father Whalley said he wanted young gay people untry towns to see that they uld be vote: Gay uple to be the first blsed by church after marriageIn reflectg on his life ahead of Saturday's vote, he said he had felt safe as a gay man the church the US, but found society was different when he moved to Atralia which still had a "don't ask, don't tell" approach moved to the North East 10 years ago, "keepg separate bedrooms, appropriate distance, the relatnship unspoken, and that seemed good enough" the 2017 plebisce on same-sex marriage changed thgs for Father Whalley.
MARRIED GAY PRITS OM WANGARATTA WILL NOT LEAVE ANGLIN CHURCH
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John Davis and Rob WhalleyJohn Davis and Rob Whalley will not be leavg the Anglin church bee they are gay - no matter what the Archbishop of Sydney says.
‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
"He said the bate need perspective bee while the archbishop had been cril of same-sex relatnships, he was silent on the Ugandan Anglins' support for a move to troduce the ath penalty for gay sex.
"The attack on dc and bishops for even suggtg gay upl uld be blsed, not even married, draws some of the fire that gay dividuals experience everyday, " he said. "'Deeply offensive': Married gay prits will not leave the churchFather MacLeod-Miller said was actually enuragg that Archbishop Davi was upset, bee showed views wh the church were changg out of his ntrol.
LINE (LGBTQIA+ In the North East) Wangaratta is a social group for lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and genr diverse, queer, tersex and asexual people and alli wh Wangaratta and North East Victoria. It had led to an outpourg of praise and support over the past two days, particular for uple John Davis and Rob Whalley who are both prits and will bee the first gay uple Atralia to be officially blsed by the church, after they get married next week.
EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS WANGARATTA
” And yet, thoands of the church’s prits are stori of gay prits are unspoken, veiled om the outsi world, known only to one another, if they are known at than about 10 prits the Uned Stat have dared to e out publicly. But gay men probably make up at least 30 to 40 percent of the Amerin Catholic clergy, acrdg to dozens of timat om gay prits themselv and rearchers. ”Two dozen gay prits and semarians om 13 stat shared timate tails of their liv the Catholic closet wh The New York Tim over the past two months.
He uld lose all three if his bishop fds his sexualy disqualifyg, even if he is fahful to his vows of environment for gay prits has grown only more dangero. McCarrick, the once-powerful rdal who was ocked last week for sexual abe of boys and young men, has flamed accatns that homosexualy is to blame for the church’s rurgent abe crisis.
WANGARATTA BISHOP PRAIS GAY MARRIAGE
And yet proment bishops have sgled out gay prits as the root of the problem, and right-wg media anizatns attack what they have lled the church’s “homosexual subculture, ” “lavenr mafia, ” or “gay bal.
He has lled homosexualy “fashnable, ” remend that men wh “this ep-seated tenncy” not be accepted for mistry and admonished gay prits to be “perfectly rponsible, tryg to never create sndal.
GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE
“The vast majory of gay prits are not safe, ” said Father Bob Bsen, a prit Park Cy, Utah, who was outed about 12 years ago after he held Mass for the L. ”The sexual revolutn happeng outsi semary walls might as well have happened on the moon, and natnal ton the fight for gay rights, like the Stonewall rts, on prit a ral dce said the l remd him of how his elementary school forced left-hand stunts to wre wh their right hand. Many gay prits spoke of beg pulled between nial and nfn, fally g out to themselv their 30s or Green was 24 when he realized he was gay and nsired jumpg om his dorm wdow.
“There will be a time your life when you will look back on this and you’re gog to jt love yourself for beg gay, ” Father Green remembered this man tellg him. ”One prit, whose parish has no ia he is gay, remembered a backyard cktail party a few years ago where fellow prits were sayg “vile” thgs about a gay bishop. ”Though open, the closet means that many prits have held the most paful stori among themselv for s: The semarian who died by suici, and the match om a gay bar found afterward his room.
THE GAY CHURCH
Wh every new abe revelatn, the tangled threads of the church’s sexual culture bee even more impossible to sort after study shows that homosexualy is not a predictor of child moltatn. When the abe crisis broke out aga last summer, the former Vatin ambassador to the Uned Stat, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, acced “homosexual works” of Amerin rdals of secretly workg to protect abers. And this week, a sensatnal book tled “Sodoma” Europe (“In the Closet of the Vatin” the Uned Stat) is beg released that claims to expose a vast gay subculture at the Vatin.
TWO GAY PRITS GOT MARRIED, BUT NOW THEIR LOVE IS BEG DRAGGED THROUGH THE URTS
A group of gay prits the Netherlands recently took the unually bold step of wrg to Pope Francis, urgg him to allow gay, celibate men to be ordaed.
“Instead of seeg creased acuntabily on the parts of the bishops, uld bee once aga a nmnatn of lbian, gay, transsexual people wh the church, ” John Coe, 63, a permanent an Kentucky, who me out last year, said about the summ.
From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis. A loft Soho, a shared room Barcelona or the Castro, a gay-iendly hotel Le Marais or Chelsea, experience misterb&b all gay travel statns! “I look at my gay iends — one very proment Atralian who’s been a fahful, monogamo, life-supportg relatnship for nigh-on 40 years — and I look at some so-lled Christian marriag that are abive, opprsive, and life-nyg and ask: What’s more Godlike?
CHURCH BLSG OF GAY MARRIAGE POSTPONED WANGARATTA
The Bible plac as ltle emphasis on same-sex acts as the early church did, even though many Christians may have been tght that the Bible clearly prohibs homosexualy.
They have unvered how siar mistranslatns, misntextualizatns, and misterpretatns have altered the meangs of the ancient scriptur to legimate morn social prejudic agast homosexualy. For example, stead of labelg all homosexual acts as sful the ey of God, ancient Christians were ncerned about excs of behavr that might separate believers om God. I have found that there is a remarkable silence about homosexual acts, both theologi and church laws for over 1, 000 years, before the late 12th century.