The first openly gay bishop is a huge step forward – but ’s not enough | Vicky Beechg | The Guardian

Contents:

• THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP IS A HUGE STEP FORWARD – BUT ’S NOT ENOUGH
• OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
• UNED METHODIST CHURCH BODY ELECTS OPENLY GAY BISHOP VLATN OF S L: 'INMAT NNG THE ASYLUM'
• FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL BISHOP TO DIVORCE HBAND
• FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL BISHOP DIVORC HBAND
• FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP TO LEAD THE EPISPAL DCE OF MISSOURI WH HOPE AND VISN
• CHURCH THAT MA GAY MAN A BISHOP ACCED OF LETTG 'INMAT RUN ASYLUM'
• UNED METHODIST CHURCH ELECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP, IN DEFIANCE OF CHURCH RUL
• J MIGHT HAVE BEEN HOMOSEXUAL, SAYS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP
• OPENLY GAY BISHOP AT CENTER OF CONTROVERSY IN UNED METHODIST CHURCH
• UNED METHODISTS’ FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP ORDAS FIRST PASTOR

THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP IS A HUGE STEP FORWARD – BUT ’S NOT ENOUGH

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. 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. 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. And so this ll for the civil regnn and protectn of gay civil unns, 's really an affirmatn of the humany of gay and lbian persons - that he's sayg that bee gay and lbian persons are human begs, that society, that the state, that ernments have an obligatn and a duty to protect their basic human Do extendg the right to a civil unn and acknowledgg that LGBTQ people should be allowed to have a partner their life through a civil unn and a fay - do that mean children?

Now, may seem to be a semantic difference, but I thk what the pope is sayg is that he is not opposed to the legal regnn of fay life and the right for gay and lbian persons to raise and have As a gay Catholic yourself, I mean, as a man of fah, as a Catholic, is somehow ls signifint, I would image, a civil unn than beg able to be married the church? I personally - and I know many others, gay and lbian persons and those who are alli and who love - would want the church to be able to one day regnize the lovg mments of LGBTQ persons the sacrament of marriage.

OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS

And what the pope is dog wh this kd of claratn - he's clearly puttg the Catholic Church on the si of agast the crimalizatn of behavr and favor of protectg the human digny of gay and lbian But help me unrstand this bee 's my unrstandg that the Catholic Church still nsirs homosexualy to be a s, not somethg that should be enuraged a liftyle. In this untry, there have been efforts to say that Catholics, Catholic stutns n't be volved or the adoptn - or allowg gay and lbian parents to adopt children. And I thk that this really giv a different lens for that kd of nversatn that go on the Catholic Church that we're basilly sayg that, no, gay and lbian persons n, you know, have a right to a fay.

A regnal body of the Uned Methodist Church (UMC) voted to elect the nomatn's first openly gay Black bishop last week vlatn of s l prohibg the ordatn of "self-avowed practicg homosexuals. Her ordatn was emed valid by the Uned Methodist Judicial Council 2017, but she remas her CHURCH OF ENGLAND OFFICIALS ENDORSE GAY MARRIAGE: ‘RANK HERESY’The UMC, which is the third-largt Prottant nomatn the U.

Bishop Karen Oliveto, the UMC's first openly gay bishop, speaks at Iliff School of Theology, on April 26, 2017, Denver, Colorado.

UNED METHODIST CHURCH BODY ELECTS OPENLY GAY BISHOP VLATN OF S L: 'INMAT NNG THE ASYLUM'

"Several nservative members of the Methodist clergy told Fox News Digal June that far om settlg the issue, however, the 2019 vote was disregard by many liberal lears wh the UMC who cid to rema the nomatn while missng openly gay clergy and officiatg same-sex weddgs Lomperis of the Instute on Relign & Democracy, who has served as a UMC General Conference legate, told The Christian Post that Bridgeforth's promotn exhibs "further direct fiance of the UMC’s official l, which is creasgly beg normalized. NEW YORK — The first openly gay Epispal bishop, who beme a symbol for gay rights far beyond the church while eply dividg the world's Anglins, plans to divorce his Gene Robson announced the end of his marriage to Mark Andrew an email sent to the Dce of New Hampshire, where he served for ne years before retirg 2012.

Robson was barred 2008 by then-Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams om the Lambeth Conference, the once-a- global meetg of all Anglin bishops, as Williams stggled to fd a way to keep Anglins Robson was also wily celebrated as a pneer for gay rights, beme an advote for gay marriage and was the subject of several books and a documentary about Christiany, the Bible and same-sex livered the benedictn at the openg 2009 gural event for Print Barack Obama and, after retirement, beme a senr fellow at the Center for Amerin Progrs, a Democratic thk tank wh close ti to the Whe Hoe. The two men were joed a 2008 civil unn New Hampshire, and beme a legal marriage when the state regnized gay marriage 2010. The Epispal bishop whose openly gay life igned a ntroversy that ripped the church apart says he is divorcg his partner of more than 25 years.

"It is at least a small fort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equaly advote, to know that like any marriage, gay and lbian upl are subject to the same plitns and hardships that afflict marriag between heterosexual upl, " Robson wrote.

FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL BISHOP TO DIVORCE HBAND

' And so, that was kd of the begng of my procs of realizg that I was lled to So, you're a black man — you're an openly gay and married black man wh two kids. Why is important this day and age for people to see an openly gay person of lor, who's also an immigrant, such a high learship role the church like this?

FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL BISHOP DIVORC HBAND

Reverend Bridgeforth is the first openly gay Black bishop the church's history, acrdg to a Christian Post article. Members of the UMC muny weled Bridgeforth, but others cricized the church for gog agast s own l prohibg openly gay people om beg elected as ndidat, as stated the UMC's Full Book of Disciple.

Therefore self-avowed practicg homosexuals are not to be certified as ndidat, " the Full Book of Disciple UMC General Conference legate John Lomperis said Briforth's electn is the most recent a UMC learship shift gog agast tradnal Christian practic.

Reprentativ of the Uned Methodist Church have elected their first openly gay bishop, fiance of church prohibns on homosexualy. The Uned Methodist Church, which has more than 7 ln members the Uned Stat, is divid over the issue of homosexualy. Monday April 4, 2005 LGBTThe first openly gay Anglin bishop has sparked outrage for suggtg that J might have been homosexual.

FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP TO LEAD THE EPISPAL DCE OF MISSOURI WH HOPE AND VISN

Bishop Robson, whose nsecratn 2003 triggered a schism between evangelils and liberals the worldwi Anglin Communn, was givg an addrs entled “Homosexualy and the Body of Christ: Is There a New Way? ” In answer to a qutn om the ngregatn about how the acceptance of homosexualy uld be squared wh the scriptural emphasis on remptn for ss, the Bishop replied: “Intertgly enough, this day of tradnal fay valu, this man that we follow was sgle, as far as we know, travelled wh a bunch of men, had a disciple who was known as ‘the one whom J loved’ and said my fay is not my mother and father, my fay is those who do the will of God. ”Those who would pos the nuclear fay as the be all and end all of God’s creatn probably don’t fd that much the gospels to support , ” he Virtue, an evangelil mentator who ns the fluential nservative Anglin webse, VirtueOnle, lled the ments “bbish” said: “It is appallg nstctnism om the liberal lobby which will sp even the remott thg to turn to a ht that Biblil figur are gay.

It is so utterly prepostero to imply that J’s relatnship wh John was homo-erotic, but twistg the tth is the only way the people n get scriptural jtifitn for their liftyl. ”Mr Virtue also said that passag which Bishop Robson pared the lonels of beg gay to a black person beg lled “a nigger” were “eply offensive”.

The ments me at the end of a sermon which Bishop Robson dispensed wh his not and spoke eely of his experienc growg up as a homosexual.

CHURCH THAT MA GAY MAN A BISHOP ACCED OF LETTG 'INMAT RUN ASYLUM'

But a young kid growg up terribly fearful that he or she might be gay n’t go home to the parents bee of the nsequenc. In 1977 Mary Whehoe, the moral mpaigner, brought a private prosecutn agast the Gay News for publishg a poem by Profsor Jam Kirkup lled The Love That Dar To Speak Its Name. LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: An openly gay bishop is at the center of a ntroversy over the role of LGBTQ people The Uned Methodist Church.

Jog me now is Bishop you so much for g on the program, OLIVETO: Thank you so much for havg me, So the urt gave somethg of a muddled lg sayg that you are good standg, but that the nsecratn of an openly gay bishop is agast church law. This seems to be the issue, as far as I unrstand - not that you are gay but that you are quote, unquote, "sexually active. " The church's book of disciple stat the followg - and I'm quotg here - "the practice of homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachg.

UNED METHODIST CHURCH ELECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP, IN DEFIANCE OF CHURCH RUL

Therefore, self-avowed practicg homosexuals are not to be certified as ndidat, ordaed as misters or appoted to serve The Uned Methodist Church. One, when we put the phrase, 1972, although we do not ndone the practic of homosexualy and nsir patible wh Christian teachg, there was no discsn of what the practice of homosexualy entails. And I thk we've raised the opn - our opn on human sexualy and homosexualy, to an I thk that has ed this wi divisn the church.

BILLINGS, MT – Bishop Karen Oliveto, The Uned Methodist Church’s first openly gay bishop, add to her place history when she ordaed her first full elr on June 9 durg the Yellowstone Annual (regnal) Conference’s meetg. Wayne of the Church of the Epiphany New York Cy preach that homosexuals “mt be accepted fully to the fellowship of the church” while they also mt seek unselg or psychologil treatment.

Pike claims that laws “aimed at ntrollg homosexualy, sexual practic between man and wife and abortns…mt be changed. 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.

J MIGHT HAVE BEEN HOMOSEXUAL, SAYS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP

1975: Augt Integry ns to trouble when planng s first natnal meetg Chigo bee the promotnal materials mentn gay marriage, upsettg some lol church lears. 1976: January At the nomatn’s General Conventn, two rolutns supportg same-sex relatnships as well as gay legal rights are passed.

OPENLY GAY BISHOP AT CENTER OF CONTROVERSY IN UNED METHODIST CHURCH

1977: January Ellen Barrett be the send open homosexual to be ordaed as a prit after the prithood is opened to the ordatn of women on January 1. Of New York performs the ordatn and says that “homosexualy is a ndn which one do not choose; is not a qutn of moraly.

The Executive Council of the Epispal Church subsequently urg that homosexuals not be ordaed until the Church as a whole n fe the “posn of homosexuals. Augt Bishop William Frey of Colorado endors a mistry aimed at “nvertg” homosexuals to heterosexualy, which is cricized by many other members of the clergy. 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.

UNED METHODISTS’ FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP ORDAS FIRST PASTOR

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.

” The missn also stat that they would accept “ants” that “aggrsively” mand gay rights to the church as well, but would not em them f for ordatn. 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.