Opn: Gay teacher the Catholic school district mak heart-felt plea for cln | Calgary Herald

Contents:

• GAY CHRISTIANS AREN’T ALLOWED SEXUAL PRACTIC
• GAYS AND THE UNED CHURCH
• GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE REQUT WOULD BE ALLOWED, CALGARY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL PRCIPAL SAYS
• CHRISTIAN ALN FED $5,000 FOR ANTI-GAY LETTER
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS CALGARY, AB
• MEET GAY CHRISTIANS TONIGHT
• CHRISTIAN MONSTRATORS ATTACKED, JURED BY LIBERALS WAVG GAY PRI FLAG
• OPN: GAY TEACHER THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT MAK HEART-FELT PLEA FOR CLN

GAY CHRISTIANS AREN’T ALLOWED SEXUAL PRACTIC

We observe many 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two Spir, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, asexual and more) related days such as Calgary Pri, Transgenr Day of Remembrance, and our yearly Affirmg Anniversary. The Catholic Church giv approval for homosexual dividuals as long as they rema abstent.

Photo urty of Jonathan BrowerThe Roman Catholic Dce of Calgary’s program Courage & Enurage Apostolate offers to help men and women “live acrdance” wh the church’s “teachg on homosexualy. However, a lol soclogist and former program lear says that approach is problematic and very different om how the Calgary Wildrose Uned Church supports members of the gay muny. The program — which is also offered other ci — emphasiz that some people might perceive their orientatn to be same-sex attracted, even though “they are by flt heterosexual” and due to some circumstanc life they might have “homosexualized” themselv, even temporarily.

GAYS AND THE UNED CHURCH

The soclogist explas that their techniqu are reparative therapy, or nversn therapy (treatment that attempts to nvert a gay person to a heterosexual).

Kim Holm-Younger and Ryan Cardwell claim for an utter acceptance towards the gay by Ingrid MirSoentgerath rerc his argument by cg a passage om the techism —prcipl of the Christian relign— of the Catholic Church:. “Homosexual acts as acts of grave pravy, tradn has always clared that homosexual acts are trsilly disorred. Soentgerath also says Courage do not force gay people to jo the program.

GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE REQUT WOULD BE ALLOWED, CALGARY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL PRCIPAL SAYS

Unlike Courage, this mistry do not support a life of abstence for gays and wel everyone regardls of their sexual orientatn. Another Christian group that has attracted ntroversy for s relatnship wh the gay muny is Journey Canada, which, acrdg to s webse, is a “Christ-centred disciplhip mistry that exists to help people fd hope and live life through experiencg J their relatnships and sexualy. Growg up gay an Evangelil church Calgary, Brower was volved overseas humanarian aid and missns work lled Youth Wh A Missn, a worldwi ter-nomatnal, non-prof Christian missnary anizatn.

“They told me they wanted only God’s bt for me and that their strict stance agast me embracg my homosexualy was bee they ‘loved me’ and didn’t want me to live an unrighteo life, ” Brower explas. In preparatn for a prentatn at Knox Uned Church May, the Calgary Gay History Project dove to learng about the stggl the Uned Church of Canada had g to terms wh sexual orientatn. Grapplg wh homosexualy proved a difficult and divisive challenge for the Uned Church, and there were several twists and turns their journey.

He brought up the issue of homosexualy and the church, notg the omissn of homosexualy om clergy nversatn and sermons. He scribed the homosexual then, as the morn equivalent of the leper. In Calgary, this ia ma news when an Anglin Mister, spired by the book, lled for an embrace of homosexuals his ngregatn.

CHRISTIAN ALN FED $5,000 FOR ANTI-GAY LETTER

It also generated an article that year the Uned Church Observer, the Church’s monthly magaze, which stated that homosexuals should be warmly weled by ngregatns and that some same-sex relatnships be given a church blsg.

Decrimalizatn of homosexualy passed Parliament 1969. The gay-centred Metropolan Communy Church movement had begun and by 1977 there were ngregatns six Canadian ci, cludg Calgary. Their fdg was that “sexual exprsn is appropriate when occurs the ntext of a lovg and mted relatnship – for both heterosexuals and homosexuals.

The 103-page document remend nsirg the ordatn of homosexuals. Two ternal lobbyg groups anized: AFFIRM, a newly formed 200-member anizatn of homosexual ngregants and clergy; and the Renewal Fellowship, a 3, 000 member groupg of the Church’s nservative wg, found 1965, who vociferoly argued agast the ordatn of homosexuals.

LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS CALGARY, AB

An rmal survey nducted by the Renewal Fellowship Brish Columbia showed that 45% of church admistrators would leave their church if a homosexual mister was assigned there. There, the remendatn to allow the ordatn of “self-clared” homosexuals was overwhelmgly rejected. Ironilly, the Church spected that 10% of s clergy were already homosexual whether or not they were out about .

MEET GAY CHRISTIANS TONIGHT

Intertgly, the homosexual ordatn vote failed to satisfy eher lobby group.

Reverend Morley Clarke, of the Renewal Fellowship, argued that the Council failed to ban homosexual ordatn outright, allowg for non-clared homosexuals to serve. On day two of the liberatns, the mtee members arrived at the classroom they were meetg  and found homophobic slurs wrten all over the blackboard. The 388 legat voted 2:1 favour of any worshippers – cludg self-clared homosexuals – to bee full members of the church, which also meant that gays would be eligible for the mistry.

CHRISTIAN MONSTRATORS ATTACKED, JURED BY LIBERALS WAVG GAY PRI FLAG

In Blackfalds, near Red Deer, Uned Church members erected a large sign on the church grounds readg: “THIS CHURCH IS OPPOSED TO ORDAINING HOMOSEXUALS. Calgary started s own chapter of the anti-gay lobby group October. Later that month, three other church: Fort Lawn, Southmster, and Southwood Uned had filed their opposn to the natnal executive regardg homosexual ordatn.

Their willgns to enterta a reversal on gay ordatn greatly rced the turmoil and flammatn the Uned Church muny. This time, the rult was 4:1 favour of gay ordatn, reaffirmg the 1988 cisn, and clearly forhadowg the trajectory of the bate. CalgaryAn admistrator at a Christian school Calgary believ the issue of gay-straight allianc is actually que straightforward.

(CBC)An admistrator at a Christian school Calgary believ the issue of gay-straight allianc (GSAs) is actually que alliance bill needs some work, says Calgary Mayor Naheed NenshiGay-straight alliance bill put on hold, says Alberta Premier Jim PrenticeRyan Brennan, prcipal of the Herage Christian Amy, said he would be pletely supportive if any of his stunts wanted to create one. Amendment cricizedBut crics said the amendment uld make matters worse by segregatg gay stunts and some s movg their support groups out of schools entirely. ’”Brennan says although there are some passag the Bible that nmn homosexualy, there are many others that promote tolerance and clivy.

OPN: GAY TEACHER THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT MAK HEART-FELT PLEA FOR CLN

The evangelistic mistry 'Street Church' group had gathered outsi Calgary's cy hall to monstrate support of pro-life and anti-gay marriage activist Bill Whattt, who fac a $104 ln lawsu after preachg at Toronto's LGBT Pri event, acrdg to CBC News. CalgaryThe Alberta Human Rights Commissn has fed a Christian group $5, 000 for an anti-gay letter that was published a Red Deer Alberta Human Rights Commissn has fed a Christian group $5, 000 for an anti-gay letter that was published a Red Deer panel led November that the Concerned Christian Coaln and s former executive director Stephen Boisso broke Alberta's human rights law bee the letter likely exposed homosexual people to hatred and 2002, Boisso wrote a letter to the edor of the Red Deer Advote that pared gay people to pedophil and dg alers. It was published unr the headle "Homosexual agenda wicked.

'—Jim Blake, Concerned Christian CoalnDarren Lund, a high school teacher Red Deer at the time, filed a plat that the letter was a hate crime after a gay teenager was attacked the chair Lori G.