NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty Durham, N.H., where Gene Robson is beg nsecrated as the first openly gay bishop the Epispal Church. Thoands are attendg the ceremony, cludg opponents of Bishop Robson's elevatn.
Contents:
- GAY BISHOP: 'BEG HONT'
- THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP IS A HUGE STEP FORWARD – BUT ’S NOT ENOUGH
- BISHOPS BLASTED FOR DENOUNCG GAY PRI MONTH
- DEAR GAY ANGLINS LETTER
- KALAMAZOO CATHOLIC BISHOP: GAY MARRIAGE LG 'RAIS SER NCERNS'
- OPENLY GAY BISHOP CONSECRATED BY EPISPAL CHURCH
- ARCHBISHOP COMPLIC WH GAY NETWORK
- 21 GAY POPES, CARDINALS AND ASSORTED CATHOLIC LEADERS.
- BRADLEY GAY FOUND 76 PEOPLE FLORIDA, INDIANA AND 35 OTHER STAT
- BISHOP MALONE RESTATG PRIT ACCED OF GAY PREDATN
GAY BISHOP: 'BEG HONT'
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THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP IS A HUGE STEP FORWARD – BUT ’S NOT ENOUGH
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One cint that brgs the issue to md is an Associated Prs release on March 3, 2006 that not that the publisher of a weekly newspaper Cameroon (where homosexualy is illegal) was sentenced to four months jail for publishg the nam of people alleged to be gay or lbian. ) The publitn and subsequent trial led to a spike of anti-gay rts. The bishops and prits who are examg the semari wh a mandate to elimate homosexually oriented ndidat om semari have a rponsibily: In fairns the examers mt reveal their orientatn to those examed.
BISHOPS BLASTED FOR DENOUNCG GAY PRI MONTH
Catholic sats have monstrated for centuri that homosexual orientatn is not an impediment to service, hols, or love. Members of the foreign prs rps Rome talk eely among themselv about the orientatn of Pop: Pi XII (divid opn), John XXIII, heterosexual, Pl VI, homosexual, John Pl II, heterosexual, and Benedict XVI, homosexual.
The New Ways Mistry is a gay-posive mistry of advocy, jtice and renciliatn for lbian and gay Catholics, fai and iends.
Sce 1977 they have worked for jtice and on behalf of lbian and gay Catholics and renciliatn wh the larger Christian and civil muni. Likewise, DignyUSA is the Uned Stat’ largt and most progrsive anizatn of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr Catholics.
DEAR GAY ANGLINS LETTER
They make great efforts to unter the dishont, hate-filled, anti-gay rhetoric so prevalent si and outsi the Catholic Church. This is clear s Instctn on the Visatn of Semari where talks about “ep-seated homosexual tennci” and “transnal homosexualy” and s equatn of sexual orientatn wh behavr. Cardal Levada, now head of the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah (formerly the Office of the Inquisn) on Febary 26, 2006 asked homosexually oriented prits to rema closeted.
This suggtn is a travty and only creas the opportuny and danger for good prits—heterosexual and homosexual—to rry on secret, non-celibate liv. The Roman Catholic Church nnot re-tablish s tegry or s credibily until is clear about the distctn between sexual orientatn and behavr; between homosexualy and pedophilia; and the real meang of celibate practice. I do not believe— fact I emphatilly reject—the Vatin statements that clare that homosexual orientatn is an “objective disorr.
KALAMAZOO CATHOLIC BISHOP: GAY MARRIAGE LG 'RAIS SER NCERNS'
Homosexual orientatn is NOT an objective disorr. I am not alg here wh homosexual acts.
Homosexual / Bisexual. Homosexual. Last March, Gene Robson took his place as the nth Epispal bishop of New Hampshire, beg the first openly gay bishop the history of set off a crisis that threatens to tear apart this fluential Prottant nomatn.
OPENLY GAY BISHOP CONSECRATED BY EPISPAL CHURCH
Many of the nnot accept a practicg homosexual as a church lear. That puts Robson, a 56-year-old divorced father of two livg a long-term relatnship wh his partner, at Ground Zero the ntug bate over how far society is willg to go acceptg homosexualy.
"As an openly gay man, I'm not way out there.
"Our relatnship is one of mutual support, love, re -- makg a place for another person your heart, the way a marriage ought to be, " says he se no ntradictn between beg a bishop and beg a practicg homosexual a mted relatnship. In fact, he is open about his a recent trip to New York, he stopped at a gay bar wh his dghter and a iend for after-theater drks. "I'm not embarrassed about beg a gay man.
ARCHBISHOP COMPLIC WH GAY NETWORK
I'm not embarrassed about beg a place wh other gay folk, " says Robson. He believ God is dog somethg new – leadg the Church and society to a greater acceptance of homosexuals.
"I thk God is meang for gay and lbian folk to have a full, whole, and plete life - both as cizens of this untry and as members of the church, " says Robson. How do he rpond to those who say that what he openly practic, homosexualy, is a s? "He kept his secret until he entered General Theologil Semary New York 1970, where he had his first homosexual relatnship.
21 GAY POPES, CARDINALS AND ASSORTED CATHOLIC LEADERS.
" And was jt enough to get him through tellg his parents that not only was he gettg divorced, but that he was also gay.
He says that many church lears, known as primat, pecially those om velopg untri, fd homosexualy patible wh the Bible.
We've always had gay bishops. "If I went away, if I did step down, do you really thk other qualified, fahful, gay and lbian folks, wouldn't be nomated and elected? Although ’s a huge step forward to see a gay bishop e out, the ongog problem is that only some gay upl are acceptable to the Church of England.
BRADLEY GAY FOUND 76 PEOPLE FLORIDA, INDIANA AND 35 OTHER STAT
This requirement utterly means gay relatnships.
I me out as gay 2014 and still rry the srs. One major reason is the current climate around gay clergy.
For me, as an openly gay Christian who disagre wh enforced celibacy and believ prits should be able to marry, I fear I’d simply be openg myself up to further damage, discrimatn, and heartache. I worry that we are losg young people not jt om future clergy rol, but om even om stg the pews, due to our slow progrs on matters of g out, Chamberla said: “People know I’m gay, but ’s not the first thg I’d say to anyone.
BISHOP MALONE RESTATG PRIT ACCED OF GAY PREDATN
If the church wants to keep s current prits, and attract a new wave of recs, we need urgent progrs so that gay people feel safe wh s walls. Thomas Tob for warng Catholics about upg gay pri events and Bp. Gay activists were monstratg Sunday night outsi of Tob's thedral Province prott of Tob's tweet on Saturday that Catholics should avoid supportg or attendg gay pri events, one of which was schled for Tob's Rho Island dce on June 15.