The Epispal bishop of Connecticut and six dissint, nservative prits met for nearly four hours last night but ma ltle progrs toward renciliatn, officials of the dce said. The prits have rejected the bishop's thory bee of his support for gay rights and for a gay bishop. The bishop, Andrew D. Smh, issued a statement last night repeatg a threat he ma several weeks ago to spend or, Epispal parlance, ''hib'' the prits.
Contents:
- UNED METHODIST CHURCH BODY ELECTS OPENLY GAY BISHOP VLATN OF S L: 'INMAT NNG THE ASYLUM'
- CT NATIVE BREAKS BARRIER AS FIRST OPENLY-GAY NFL ACH
- CT NATIVE BREAKS BARRIER AS FIRST OPENLY-GAY NFL ACH
- CONNECTICUT EPISPALIANS DEFY BISHOP OVER GAY ISSU
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- RETIRED BISHOPS E TO FENSE OF PRITS OPPOSED TO GAY CLERGY
- NO ACRD BY EPISPAL CLERICS AFTER LONG SSN ON GAY ISSU
- FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL BISHOP TO DIVORCE HBAND
UNED METHODIST CHURCH BODY ELECTS OPENLY GAY BISHOP VLATN OF S L: 'INMAT NNG THE ASYLUM'
The Wtern Jurisdictn of the Uned Methodist Church promoted an openly gay clergyman to the rank of bishop fiance of their l prohibg the ordatn of "practicg homosexuals." * gay bishop in ct *
A 2012 vtigatn at the Connecticut semary found evince of a homosexual work that extend to several dc, and spe s fdgs, some of those volved were subsequently ordaed to the prithood. — Some of the semarians and transnal ans at the center of an vtigatn to homosexual behavr and activy at a small Catholic semary Connecticut apparently were ordaed to the prithood for the Archdce of Hartford and the Dce of Paterson, New Jersey — spe the revelatns outled a six-year-old report obtaed by the Register.
Acrdg to the 2012 report’s disturbg nclns, the homosexual activy at Holy Apostl took place the ntext of a much wir homosexual work that spanned a number of U.
The work reportedly volved homosexual activy between semarians, transnal ans and visg prits servg elsewhere.
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This prit was figured Holy Apostl’ vtigatn and was, acrdg to the vtigatn’s fal report, “directly volved hostg parti and engagg unacceptable behavr/homosexual activy wh select semarians om both the Dce of Paterson and the Archdce of Hartford. He said the vtigatn, nducted durg the sprg semter 2012, was based on eyewns ttimony and other evince of ongog homosexual behavr among some semarians. “In late April 2012, the admistratn of the semary beme aware of alleged homosexual practice by several stunts on the Cromwell mp, ” Father Mosey, the print sce 1996, told the Register.
Father Mosey said the vtigatn also unvered cints of plagiarism and alhol vlatns, but that the expulsns were motivated primarily by ditns of sexually appropriate behavr and sexually charged nversatn mon areas, eyewns ttimony of homosexual activy and forensic evince of homosexual ntent on puters. The vtigatn’s fal report, wrten by then-Dean Lavers and dated June 29, 2012, also revealed that semarians would often make weekend trips to New York Cy and Hartford and New Haven, Connecticut, to vis bars well-known for terg to a homosexual clientele. Semary for unacceptable behavr/homosexual activy”; and that select semarians “were disvered to be on a ‘blacklist’ of semarians expelled om Colombian semari for engagg unacceptable behavr/homosexual activy.
CT NATIVE BREAKS BARRIER AS FIRST OPENLY-GAY NFL ACH
Six Epispalian church Connecticut reject thory of Bishop Andrew Smh over his liberal views on homosexualy and support for nsecratn of gay bishop, V Gene Robson; stop payg their dcan du; Smh threatens to remove pastors if they do not rejo fold by April 15; rebelln is latt Epispal Church rultg om nsecratn of Robson and church's softeng stand on gay marriage; Rev Christopher Leighton and Rev Allyn Benedict are ced among dissint pastors (M) * gay bishop in ct *
“The evince at Holy Apostl led to a very systemic homosexual work of dividuals, not only verg for each other, but actively sanizg fil, movg people around, engagg all sorts of negative activy, ” Father Lavers told the Register last month. Father Lavers told the Register his vtigatn unvered forensic rmatn on the ans’ puters that led to webs that tered to homosexual and pedophilic tast and received ttimony om semarians that they were sexually volved wh other semarians and dcan prits om Hartford and Paterson. One other Paterson semarian volved the homosexual work referenced the vtigatn, but who was studyg at another semary, was also ordaed to the prithood for Paterson, which recent years has been one of the top five U.
CONNECTICUT EPISPALIANS DEFY BISHOP OVER GAY ISSU
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8, the Dce of Paterson said, “No semarian dismissed 2012 om Holy Apostl College and Semary for homosexual activy was ordaed to the prithood the Paterson Dce. Acrdg to a 2005 Vatin stctn, men wh “transory” homosexual leangs may be ordaed ans followg three years of prayer and chasty.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
In the first step toward ockg, one of the six Epispal prits who has opposed the Connecticut bishop's support for the ordatn of gay bishops was temporarily removed om his duti as rector of a church Bristol on Wednday bee he had taken an unthorized sabbatil. The prit, the Rev. Mark Hansen, the rector of St. John's Church sce 1990, was ''hibed'' or removed om his post for the next six months, by Bishop Andrew D. Smh, the head of the Epispal Dce of Connecticut. The bishop ma his cisn about three months after learng that Mr. Hansen had been on sabbatil sce April 10, an absence that Bishop Smh said had ed tensn among church members and prompted several members to leave for neighborg parish. * gay bishop in ct *
However, men wh “eply rooted homosexual tennci” or who are sexually active nnot be ordaed. Bishops’ Commtee on Doctre when published “Mistry to Persons Wh a Homosexual Inclatn, ” which reaffirmed Church teachg that a homosexual clatn is not sful self, but that homosexual activy is gravely disorred and sful. At that time, Bishop Serratelli told USA Today, “Homosexual acts are never morally acceptable.
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.
RETIRED BISHOPS E TO FENSE OF PRITS OPPOSED TO GAY CLERGY
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Bishop Karen Oliveto, the UMC's first openly gay bishop, speaks at Iliff School of Theology, on April 26, 2017, Denver, Colorado. "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.
That was before he me to know himself as a gay man. But as a lifelong member of the Epispal Church, which has accepted gay prits for years, and whose prits may marry and have a fay, Mello was the right spot to make all those dreams e te, and more.
Pl’s Epispal Church Brookle, Mass., will be nsecrated as the 16th dcan bishop of the Epispal Dce of Connecticut, the first openly gay bishop the dce. Mello, 54, said he was “terrified” that beg gay would bar him om the prithood and a fay, and that he would “have to give all of that up.
NO ACRD BY EPISPAL CLERICS AFTER LONG SSN ON GAY ISSU
“When I was g to unrstand myself as someone who was gay, and this was llege, I never worried about what God thought and I never worried about what my fay thought, ” he said. As the first gay bishop of Connecticut, Mello said is both a big step for the dce “and ’s jt who I am. For many, havg a gay prit n be a healg experience, he said, jt as was when women first were accepted as prits.
SOUTHBURY, CT (WFSB) – A Connecticut native has bee the first openly gay NFL Maxen, a ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, said he didn’t want to feel like he had to lie Maxen, associate strength ach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, has publicly e out as gay. READ MORE: Dwight Howard Sued by Man Claimg NBA Star Forced Him to Have Gay Threome.
Fifty away Watertown, a pastor drew chuckl when he asked his flock to pray for the bishop, who has threatened to silence him for his told, six Epispal church have rejected the thory of the bishop of the Connecticut Dce and stopped payg their dcan du bee of the bishop's liberal views on homosexualy and his support for a gay bishop New bishop, Andrew D.
FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL BISHOP TO DIVORCE HBAND
"The iologil rift Connecticut is only the latt nvulsn a wave of rebelln shakg the Epispal church all across the untry, fallout om the nsecratn of a gay Epispal bishop New Hampshire 2003 and the church's softeng stance on gay the last year, about a dozen church have broken wh the Epispal Church USA, the Amerin arm of Anglinism, and joed Anglin dc Ai and South Ameri whose lears still view homosexualy as an abomatn. On Wednday, the Amerin church's executive uncil cid not to send votg legat to the annual world meetg of Anglins June, obeyg a requt that the global uncil of the church had ma to pacify angry Anglin lears many global learship had asked the Amerin church to send nonvotg legat stead to expla the church's posn on homosexualy, and the Amerin church said on Wednday that would do that.
Father Leighton said crted 2003, wh Bishop Smh's ordatn of a gay prit, followed by his vote for the nsecratn of the gay bishop, V. He told the prits that if they wanted to rencile, they need to do by April of the rectors has rpond, said Llie Jon Tollefson, a dce Pl's is an airy place where prayer is led wh atic guars, the worshipers are all born-aga Christians and a pamphlet subtled "Exposg the 'Gay' Theology" is stacked by the entrance. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn B, Page 1 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: Connecticut Epispalians Defy Bishop Over Gay Issu.